The Handbook of Community Practice - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1412987857 ISBN 13: 9781412987851

Verlag: Sage Publications, Inc, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

The Second Edition of The Handbook of Community Practice is expanded and updated with a major global focus and serves as a comprehensive guidebook of community practice grounded in social justice and human rights. It utilizes community and practice theories and encompasses community development, organizing, planning, social change, policy practice, program development, service coordination, organizational cultural competency, and community-based research in relation to global poverty and community empowerment. This is also the first community practice text to provide combined and in-depth treatment of globalization and international development practice issues—including impacts on communities in the United States and on international development work. The Handbook is grounded in participatory and empowerment practices, including social change, social and economic development, feminist practice, community-collaborative, and engagement in diverse communities. It utilizes the social development perspective and employs analyses of persistent poverty, asset development, policy practice, and community research approaches as well as providing strategies for advocacy and social and legislative action.

The handbook consists of forty chapters which challenge readers to examine and assess practice, theory, and research methods. As it expands on models and approaches, delineates emerging issues, and connects policy and practice, the book provides vision and strategies for local to global community practice in the coming decades.

The handbook will continue to stand as the central text and reference for comprehensive community practice, and will be useful for years to come as it emphasizes direction for positive change, new developments in community approaches, and focuses attention on globalization, human rights, and social justice. It will continue to be used as a core text for multiple courses within programs, will have long term application for students of community practice, and will provide practitioners with new grounding for development, planning, organizing, and empowerment and social change work.

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Marie Weil is Berg-Beach professor of Community Practice and former associate dean at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill School of Social Work, where she teaches Community Practice, Policy Practice, International Practice and Global Perspectives, and Program Development. She has led state-wide research as well as community-based planning and implementation initiatives in support of family programs, including family preservation and adolescent family life programs in California and North Carolina. In addition, Weil has extensiveexperience in consulting and program evaluation in nonprofit settings. Prior to her service at the University of North Carolina, she taught at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, and has also served as Deputy Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity of Delaware and Planning Director of the Wilmington Housing Authority. Weil is a founding member of the Association for Community Organization and Social Administration (ACOSA) as well as the Founding Editor of the Journal of Community Practice--leading production of the first ten volumes. She is a recipient of ACOSA′s Career Achievement Award.

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A guidebook of community practice grounded in social justice and human rights. It Utilizes the social development perspective and employs analyses of persistent poverty, asset development, policy practice, and community research approaches as well as providing strategies for advocacy and social and legislative action.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Sage Publications, Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1412987857
• ISBN 13: 9781412987851
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 948
• Herausgeber: Weil Marie
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: preigu GmbH & Co. KG; mail@preigu.de; ; Lengericher Landstr. 19; Osnabrück; Niedersachsen; 49078; Deutschland