Theory and practice of dialogical community development : international perspectives / Peter Westoby and Gerard Dowling.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Westoby, Peter, author.

Contributor:

Dowling, Gerard.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Community development.

Interpersonal communication.

Dialogue--Social aspects.

Dialogue.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (193 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book proposes that community development has been increasingly influenced and co-opted by a modernist, soulless, rational philosophy - reducing it to a shallow technique for 'solving community problems'. In contrast, this dialogical approach re-maps the ground of community development practice within a frame of ideas such as dialogue, hospitality and depth. For the first time community development practitioners are provided? with an accessible understanding of dialogue and its relevance to their practice, exploring the contributions of internationally significant thinkers such as? P. F

Contents:

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; About the authors; Acknowledgements; Preface; Foreword; Abbreviations; Introduction: A practice framework; International community development practice: traditions and frameworks; Dialogical community development: a framework; Restoring depth: why dialogical community development?; Widening the framework; A reflection on theory and practice; 1 Theoretical prelude: An introduction to dialogue for community development; A normative perspective on dialogue; A historical understanding of dialogue; 2 Re-imagining community practice

Awakening loveDeepening participation; Place-making; Welcoming problems and shadow; 3 Transformative community processes; The discerning and gentling of method; Widening analysis; Careful conflicting; Structuring not strangling; 4 Analytical interlude: What weakens dialogue within community development; Ideological positions; Therapeutic culture; Growing inequalities; 5 Caring for different spheres of community life; Caring for the ordinary; Caring for the economy; Caring for politics; Caring for the cultural; Earth care; 6 Dialogue and training for transformation; Space to re-imagine

Stories for sparking re-imaginationMethods and models for transformative training; Inspiration and empowerment, not information; The logic of wishing, willing and acting; Conclusion; A passion of not knowing; Invitation to dialogue and dissent; Notes; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-136-27284-4

0-203-10994-5

1-299-48287-2

1-136-27285-2

9780203109946

OCLC:

840478155