Rethinking Community Practice
Developing Transformative Neighbourhoods
Distributed for Policy Press at the University of Bristol
With a Foreword by Alan Twelvetrees
185 pages
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17 figures
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6 3/4 x 9 1/2
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© 2013
Combining a reexamination of theory with practical tools and approaches, Rethinking Community Practice provides a new framework for community involvement strategies. Gabriel Chanan and Colin Miller show how this innovative but still amorphous movement can become more coherent, both on the ground and in public policy, by reforming community development, building neighborhood partnerships, measuring outcomes objectively, and synthesizing the best innovations of the past three decades. This is an important new perspective for local public service agencies, practitioners working in communities, and academics and students concerned with these fields.
Hugh Butcher, coeditor of Critical Community Practice
“This book pushes all the right buttons. It draws upon the authors’ extensive contributions to thinking about the theory and implementation of neighbourhood community practice. Their resulting model makes a major contribution to contemporary debates. Highly recommended!”
Contents
List of tables, figures and boxes
Foreword by Alan Twelvetrees
Foreword by Alan Twelvetrees
1. Introduction
2. National policy on community involvement—the historical journey
3. Community practice and the state
4. What happens in communities
5. Towards neighbourhood strategy
6. Building partnership
7. Different perspectives
8. Outcomes and evidence
9. Conclusion—strategy for community practice
References
Index
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