The latest Special Issue of IACD’s magazine Practice Insights is out this week. All IACD members will receive a copy in the post. It has a focus upon the teaching of community education, open learning, work-based learning, professional standards and related issues such as practitioner registration. Please find the links below.
Message from Anna Clarke
Chair of the IACD Training, Publications and Professional Development Committee
I am delighted to introduce you to Issue 12 of IACD’s Practice Insights magazine focussing on global perspectives on Community Development Education. As Chair of IACD’s Training, Professional Development and Publications Committee, this is the first edition that I have been involved in from start to finish and it has been an honour and a pleasure, as this is a theme very close to my own heart. This issue offers excellent insight into community development education that is taking place around the world, from community-based learning through to higher education provision and offering insight into the use and value of models and frameworks that support the progression of learning and ensure high standards of both educational and community development practice. These are themes that IACD is actively exploring as part of our scoping study on potential options for an accreditation/endorsement role for IACD. Several of the ideas within this edition will contribute to those discussions as we move forward.
Special thanks to our Guest Editor, Huston Gibson, Associate Professor and Community Development Program Director at Kansas State University, USA, for his excellent coordination and precision organisational management of this issue. Once again, we have benefited from the creative design expertise of our Practice Insights Managing Editor, Deborah Albin from Montana State University, USA, who has put together this striking edition. I would also like to thank Charlie McConnell for his spot on suggestions for several of the articles and of course, a huge word of thanks to all our contributors for sharing their knowledge, insight and indeed experience. This collective contribution is a significant resource for everyone involved in community development learning. I hope you enjoy reading it!
Anna Clarke, IACD European Director and Chair of Training, Professional Development and Publications Committee
Contents
Editorial – Huston Gibson ……………………………………………………………4
On Community Development Education ……………………………………….5
Creating a Profession in Fits and Starts ……………………………………….7
Using Standards to Support
Community Development Practice………………………………………………10
Registration of Professionals: The Pros and Cons ………………………..13
Growing a Learning Culture: The Role of a
Standards Body in Community Development Education ………………15
Work-Based Community Development Training
in Scotland: The Linked Work and Training Trust Model………………18
Young People and Community Development Education……………….21
Practice Exchange 2018: Sustaining
Indigenous Wisdom and Cultures—Bali, Indonesia ……………………..24
Community Work Education and
Training at Maynooth University, Ireland…………………………………….28
The Evolution and Practice of Community Development
Through Extension Services in Philippine Higher Education ………..32
Community Development and
Social Work Education in East Asia …………………………………………….35
Community Development Education in Kenya …………………………….38
Designing With: An Engaged Studio Approach
to Applied Community Development Scholarship………………………..40
Online Community Development Education………………………………..43
The Global Community Development Exchange (GCDEX)……………46
