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• Cover Page
• Half Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of illustrations
• List of contributors
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• List of abbreviations
• 1 Introduction
• A participatory approach to community work
• A short history of the roots of community work
• Conceptualizing ‘community’
• Community work, community organization and community development
• The concept participation
• Ideological foundation for change from below
• Critical reflection
• Structure of the book
• Notes
• Suggestions for further readings
• References
• Part 1 Participation, ethics and co-construction of knowledge in community work
• 2 The Ethics of Participation in Community Work Practice
• Introduction: participation and ethics
• Participation and social justice
• Participation and human rights
• Participation and virtuous practice
• Means-ends connection
• Conclusion
• 3 Community Knowledge and Practices After the Postmodern Epistemic Framework Towards a second modernity
• Introduction
• Pre-modern framework
• Modern framework
• After-modernism and the postmodern framework
• After the postmodern framework or what now: towards a second Modernity?
• 4 The co-construction of knowledge Reflection on experiences of developing an online international community work course
• Introduction
• Central educational concepts within SW-VirCamp
• The literature review
• Situated and social learning in virtual communities of practice
• Situated learning as an educational concept
• Social learning as an educational concept
• The SW-VirCamp educational project
• Situated and social learning in the SW-VirCamp team
• Conclusion
• Notes
• References
• Part 2 Participatory learning and action research
• 5 Participatory Learning and Action (Pla) Techniques for Community Work
• Introduction
• What are Participatory Learning and Action techniques?
• A history of the development of PLA techniques
• Some examples of PLA techniques
• Visioning
• Visual mapping
• Visual community mapping
• Visual body mapping
• Matrix ranking
• Transect walks
• Proportional piling
• Mood or lifelines
• Venn diagrams
• Flow and impact diagrams
• Limitations and advantages of using PLA techniques
• Note
• Suggestions for further reading
• 6 Mobilizing Community Strengths and Assets Participatory experiences of community members in a garden project
• Introduction
• Current debates related to community participation and the context for the current project
• Asset-based community development (ABCD) as a community organizing practice framework
• Methodology
• Participatory action research
• Participants
• Data collection
• Data analysis
• Ethical issues
• Results and significance of findings
• Enhancing capacity
• Building partnerships for change
• Linking resources from outside the community
• Conclusion
• Notes
• References
• 7 Participatory Learning of Community Work in an E-Learning Course
• Introduction
• Community work from an international perspective
• Structuring the course
• Participatory learning
• Participatory action research/action learning
• The essence of being a community worker
• Facilitative roles
• The educational roles
• Representational roles
• Technical roles
• Critical questioning role
• Participation, democracy and empowerment
• Conclusion
• Notes
• References
• Part 3 Power and participation in community work
• 8 Power and Participation in Community Work Research and Practice
• Introduction
• On critical social research, power and participation
• Research methods and sampling
• Ethical considerations
• Research, community based social work and participatory social action
• Conclusion
• Notes
• References
• 9 How Do We Make Room for All? The Power of Context in Shaping Action
• Introduction
• The role of context in shaping behaviour
• Hope as a context for action
• An animating vision
• The power of the question
• An inspiring future
• Language as a socially constructed context
• A shared framework for moving from idea to action
• Developing identity as citizens
• A generative framework for collective action
• Suggestions for further reading
• 10 Community Work within the Norwegian Welfare State Barriers and possibilities for work with particularly vulnerable groups
• Introduction
• Living conditions
• Living conditions for drug abusers
• Living conditions for paperless migrants
• Examples from practice
• Barriers faced by social workers in public service employment
• Possibilities for using community work strategies
• To decide to act
• Cooperation with people concerned and others in empowering processes
• Conclusion
• Note
• Suggestions for further reading
• References
• 11 Community Work as Part of Neighbourhood Renewal A case study
• Community work in Norway
• A neighbourhood project in Bergen
• Background
• Project description
• Reflections in the project team
• Participation and project activities
• The tenant representatives
• Meeting places and activities
• Anchoring the project activities
• Issues to consider
• Knowledge base — a trust in people and participation for change
• Activities — participation and ‘bottom-up’ approaches
• Capacity building and sustainability
• Notes
• References
• 12 Partnership and Participation Art in community work
• Introduction
• The social aspects of art and its importance to social work
• Community art and activism
• The role of culture and art in capacity building and participation
• Community work and participation: from citizens to stakeholders
• The community art project, the artist and creation management
• Community art outcomes: reflection on results and the use of research methods
• Examples of community art projects in Netherlands and Portugal
• IkVrouw (I Woman)
• Risen from the Ground (Levantados do chao)
• Conclusion
• Notes
• References
• Part 4 Addressing new global challenges
• 13 (Re)imagining Communities in the Context of Climate Change A saving grace or the evasion of state responsibilities during (hu)man-made disasters?
• Introduction
• Communities: contested entities that affirm collective values and action
• Mitigating vulnerabilities and growing resilience in communities
• Linking local and global challenges
• Conclusion
• Notes
• Useful websites
• 14 Pacific Heritage Specific Conceptual Frameworks and Family Violence Preventive Training in Aotearoa New Zealand
• Nga mihi (greetings)
• Introduction
• Pasifika diaspora
• Relational vā translations
• Historical antecedents
• Theoretic assumptions on family violence
• By whose definition?
• Pasifika theoretical assumptions
• ‘Nga vaka o kāiga tapu’ (A Pacific conceptual framework(s) to address family violence in New Zealand)5
• The project
• Bi-cultural/Multi cultural dynamics
• Conclusion
• Notes
• References
• 15 Social Action for Community Work in India Grassroots interventions to face global challenges
• Introduction to the context
• India
• Globalization in India
• Community development in India
• A new emergence
• Overarching theoretical framework
• Sarvahara Jan Andolan: the movement of the one who has ‘lost’ everything
• Community profile
• The beginning: critical consciousness
• Making a pathway: issue selection
• Community mobilization
• Social action for empowerment
• Conclusion
• 16 Community Work and the Challenges of Neoliberalism and New Managerialism Resistance, the Occupy Movement and the Arab Spring
• Introduction
• Neoliberalism as dominant ideology and practice
• Neoliberalism, poverty and inequality
• Trade liberalization and unemployment
• Neoliberal and new managerial discourse and practices in welfare
• Resistance to neoliberalism: the Occupy Movement and the Arab Spring
• Conclusion
• 17 Community Development Towards an integrated emancipatory framework
• Introduction
• Understanding community work, community organization and community development
• Existing models of community work
• Proposed definitions: community work, community organization and community development
• Community development and participation: key principles
• An integrated emancipatory framework for community development
• Conclusion
• Note
• References
• Index