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Community work : theory into practice / Karen McArdle [and three others].
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McArdle, Karen, 1958- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Community development.
- Community organization.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vii, 289 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol : Policy Press, 2024.
- Summary:
- This highly accessible guide equips community work and related professionals and students to make the best use of theory in their work. Linking contemporary theory and practice, the book guides the reader through such diverse areas as young people, adult learning, health, social media and leadership in community work.
- Contents:
- Front Cover
- Community Work: Theory into Practice
- Copyright information
- Contents
- List of figures and tables
- Grateful acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Professional learning
- Lost theory in the world of community work practice
- Case study
- Stages of retention of inspirational theory
- Keeping a theoretical grounding?
- Our practice compass
- Nadia Stuart (2021) focus group
- Choices
- Principles in practice
- Challenge questions
- References
- 2 Social justice
- Human rights
- Neoliberalism
- Hegemony, power and social justice
- Power and social justice
- What we can do about social justice
- 3 Equality and inclusion
- Context
- Human rights approach
- Unconscious bias
- Feminism
- Promoting inclusion
- Challenges for the community worker
- Understanding needs
- Understanding privilege
- Case study - continued
- Stigmatisation
- 4 Impact, change and making a difference
- Change and transformation
- Social impact assessment
- Social return on investment (SROI) and social accounting
- Showing impact
- 5 Participation
- Power and empowerment
- The political context
- Governance
- Encouraging participation
- Voice
- 6 Working with communities
- Values and community work
- Social change
- Community resilience
- Asset-based community development
- Asset-based principles
- Community interventions and action
- Challenge questions.
- References
- 7 Community engagement
- Voice and power
- Valuing our knowledge
- Beginning the engagement
- Planning the engagement
- Doing the engagement
- Surveys
- Focus groups
- Community forums
- Engagement having a grip: working with power and bringing about change
- Community organising
- Relational meetings
- 8 Networking and partnership
- Networking
- Communicating well
- Partnership
- Collaboration
- Partnering with communities
- 9 Health and well-being
- Different models of health
- Health and control
- Health inequalities: community voice and social capital
- 10 Youth work
- Defining youth
- Case studies
- Educational imperatives
- Challenges for young people and work with young people
- Power and young people
- Relationships
- Youth voice
- Conclusion
- 11 Adult learning
- Barriers to engagement
- Impact of adult learning
- Epistemologies of adult learning
- Reading the word to read the world
- Transformative learning theory
- Analysing or thinking about what is said
- Trauma-informed practice (TIP)
- Supporting an adult learning sector
- 12 Employability
- Policy context
- The labour market driven approach
- Understanding barriers to employment
- Future of work
- A capabilities approach
- Social practice model.
- Other approaches
- 13 The environment
- Social justice and the environment
- The environment as the site for social justice
- Our relations with nature, extending community
- Nature as discursive
- Working with communities
- Working with communities: voice
- 14 Community arts
- Community arts in context
- Arts and well-being
- Arts and engagement
- Resourcing the arts
- Arts and empowerment
- Arts to support social change
- Where does our influence in community arts come from?
- 15 Digital community work
- Digital empowerment
- Connectivism
- Creating digital transformation
- Different forms of digital learning
- Digital well-being
- 16 Community research
- Narrative inquiry
- Participatory action research (PAR)
- Narrative and participatory action research
- Ethics
- 17 Leadership in community work
- Transformational leadership
- Ethical leaders
- Separating terminology: leadership and management
- The future of our work in communities
- Human-centred organisations
- Diversity in practice and the organisation
- Leadership in community contexts and developing community leaders
- Conclusion and celebration
- Index.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 10 Jan 2025).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781447365334
- 144736533X
- 9781447365341
- 1447365348
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