Practice Insights 8 puts the spotlight upon community development in eastern asia. Periodically IACD publishes a special issue of Practice Insights magazine. These have usually been thematic e.g. about poverty or the Sustainable
Development Goals. This special issue is geographic. It profiles community development initiatives in eastern Asia,
with a strong spotlight upon parts of China. Our guest editor and IACD East Asia Director, Kwok-kin Fung has
gathered together over a dozen articles including articles from Taiwan, Philippines and Malaysia.
Most are case studies, written either by practitioners or research scholars working in the community development
field. As with all of the articles in Practice Insights, they are intended to be short, giving the busy reader a glimpse into work in the area, together with the contact details of the author/s should readers wish to make contact. You can read the magazine here. PRACTICE INSIGHTS 8 FINAL
We have been asked many times whether Practice Insights is peer reviewed and the answer is yes. At least two external people look at each article. Practice Insights is not however intended to be an academic journal, but rather a
practitioner magazine. There are over a dozen academic community development journals around the world and, as IACD members will know, we have had a longstanding relationship with the international Community Development Journal (CDJ) published by Oxford University Press. Indeed the February 2017 edition of CDJ also looked at eastern Asia, co-edited by KK Fung and Gary Craig, IACD Past President. (see https://academic.oup.com/cdj/ issue/52/1).
