Learning and Mobilising for Community Development introduces the reader to different ways of thinking about, and organising community-based education and training within different settings. Stories from the global south and north illustrate approaches to collective learning and collective action. The book provides not only an insight into the how-to of community-based education and training, but through a range of applications, demonstrates the often unspoken shadow side of the developmental work we undertake.
The first section of the book outlines the key elements that underpin effective community-based education and training. It then locates community-based education and training within a broader pedagogical project, by tracing the tradition of transformative learning and education. The second half of the book focuses on stories and practice, distilling the application of theory and frameworks.
The practitioners within this book emerge from unique and challenging contexts. From civil resistance in West Papua and youth empowerment in South Africa to financial freedom in Australia, these diverse experiences speak to a common quest for social change and justice.
By:
Lynda Shevellar
Edited by:
Peter Westoby
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Spine: 16mm
Weight: 603g
ISBN: 9781409443841
ISBN 10: 1409443841
Pages: 252
Publication Date: 03 October 2012
Audience:
College/higher education
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General/trade
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Primary
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ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Introduction, Peter Westoby, Lynda Shevellar; Part I A Radical Tradition of Community-based Education and Training; Chapter 1 A Perspective on Community-based Education and Training, Peter Westoby, Lynda Shevellar; Chapter 2 Tracing a Tradition of Community-based Education and Training, Lynda Shevellar, Peter Westoby; Part II Australian Stories of Practice; Chapter 3 ‘We got to look at our old people, use a different school’: Bringing Out Stories Across Generations in the Kimberley, David Palmer; Chapter 4 Poverty Finds a Voice: Dialogic Learning and Research through Theatre in Melbourne, Kathy Landvogt; Chapter 5 Learning to Strategise, Strategising to Learn: Reflection on Pedagogy of the Change Agency in Australia, James Whelan, Sam La Rocca, Holly Hammond, Jason MacLeod, Pru Gell; Chapter 6 A Re-imagined Identity: Building a Movement in Brisbane for the Practice of Social Role Valorization, Lynda Shevellar, Jane Sherwin, Gregory Mackay; Chapter 7 Building Community Leadership from the Inside Out: The Story of the Building Better Communities Training Course in South East Queensland, Howard Buckley; Chapter 8 Training for Transformation: Reflections on In situ Community Work Training in Brisbane, Dave Andrews; Part III International Stories of Practice; Chapter 9 Strengthening Governance through Storians: An Elicitive Approach to Peace-building in Vanuatu, Polly O. Walker; Chapter 10 Creativity and Technique: A Part Icipatory Approach to Farmer Education in Cambodia, Nicholas Haines; Chapter 11 Visiting Memories Together: The Use of a Collective Narrative Pedagogy in Srebrenica, David Denborough; Chapter 12, untuk kebaikan: Solidarity Education for Civil Resistance in West Papua, Alex Rayfield, Rennie Morello; Chapter 13 Progressive Contextualisation: Developing a Popular Environmental Education Curriculum in the Philippines, Jose Roberto Guevara; Chapter 14 The ‘Craft’ of Community-based Education and Training: The South African National Council of YMCAs and Youth Empowerment, Peter Westoby, Sipho Sokhela; Part IV Gathering the Wisdom from the Stories; Chapter 15 Conclusion: A Community-based Education and Training Framework, Lynda Shevellar, Peter Westoby;
Peter Westoby and Lynda Shevellar, both at The University of Queensland, Australia Peter Westoby, Lynda Shevellar, David Palmer, Kathy Landvogt, James Whelan, Sam La Rocca, Holly Hammond, Jason MacLeod, Pru Gell, Jane Sherwin, Gregory Mackay, Howard Buckley, Dave Andrews, Polly O. Walker, Nicholas Haines, David Denborough, Alex Rayfield, Rennie Morello, Jose Roberto Guevara, Sipho Sokhela.
Reviews for Learning and Mobilising for Community Development: A Radical Tradition of Community-Based Education and Training
’A rich and wide-ranging book, containing much practice wisdom within a strong theoretical framework, which will enrich the practice of community development workers, educators, and activists. It provides stimulating challenges both for students and for experienced practitioners. This book represents a major contribution to the field, and an important corrective to uncritical, unreflective and top-down practice.’ Jim Ife, Emeritus Professor, Curtin University, Australia 'Learning and Mobilising for Community Development is a timely book. ... This book is an important reminder, after what feels like years of absence from much of the literature on adult and community education, that there is continuing and developing theory and practice in the radical traditions of learning. And surely, in the current global political and economic climate, the editors’ early plea is a timely and urgent message for community workers and educators alike: hope is not enough, community development needs to build collective organizational strength.' Community Development Journal
