The Community Development Reader: History, Themes and Issues, edited by Gary Craig, Marjorie Mayo, Keith Popple, Mae Shaw and Marilyn Taylor
Community development emerged as a recognisable occupational activity in the United Kingdom in the 1950s, drawing on American and colonial practice but shaped most of all by British urban approaches. Since then, whilst struggling to remain true to its progressive values, it has often been manipulated to serve differing policy and political purposes.
Now, at a time when the UK coalition government appears to be signed up to community organising as a solution to social problems, this unique and wide-ranging Reader will help its readers critically analyse current approaches and challenge those which give no real voice to local communities.
It traces community development’s changing fortunes through a selection of readings from key writers over the past sixty years. It will be invaluable to those pursuing community development careers, for activists, policy-makers in a range of settings, and for all those teaching, learning and practising community development.
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