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Helping relationships – principles, theory and practice

WEBThe first relates to those they are helping to manage specific problems. It is to ‘help clients manage their problems in living more effectively and develop unused or …

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Community participation, community development and non …

WEBOne United Nations document (1981: 5) defined community participation as: The creation of opportunities to enable all members of a community to actively …

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Happiness and education – theory, practice and possibility

WEBIQ. In self-rated studies IQ is said to be only weakly correlated with happiness in terms of subjective feelings of happiness. education. Education appears to have only a small …

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forming, storming norming and performing in groups

WEBCurrently Bruce W. Tuckman directs the Academic Learning Lab at Ohio State University (from 1998). Previously he had been a Professor of Educational …

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Sustainable communities and neighbourhoods. theory, policy and …

WEBSustainable communities – a policy example from England. In 2003 the English government launched what they described as the ‘Communities Plan’ ( …

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Friendship theory: some philosophical and sociological themes

WEBFriendship, in this sense, involves sharing in a common project: to create and sustain the life of a community, ‘a sharing incorporated in the immediacy of an …

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Evaluation for education, learning and change

WEBFirst, evaluation entails gathering, ordering and making judgments about information in a methodical way. It is a research process. Second, evaluation is …

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What is community development

WEBCommunity development was seen as emphasizing self-help, mutual support, the building up of neighbourhood integration, the development of …

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Community participation – infed.org:

WEBThe creation of opportunities to enable all members of a community to actively contribute to and influence the development process and to share equitably in the fruits of …

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What is informal education

WEBInformal education can be all of these things. However, here we focus on informal education as a spontaneous process of helping people to learn. It works …

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Luther Halsey Gulick: recreation, physical education and the YMCA

WEBinfed.org January 14, 2013January 14, 2013. Luther Halsey Gulick physical education and the YMCA. Luther Halsey Gulick (1865-1918) was an expert and prolific writer on …

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How to do a community audit: building profiles using

WEBThere are three basic ways of undertaking a community audit or profiling exercise. • Desk-or kitchen table-based research. • Walking the streets. • Talking and …

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau on nature, wholeness and education

WEBJean-Jacques Rousseau (1712 – 1778) was born in Geneva (June 28) but became famous as a ‘French’ political philosopher and educationalist. Rousseau was brought up first by …

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Donald Schon (Schön): learning, reflection and change

WEBDonald Schon made a remarkable contribution to our understanding of the theory and practice of learning. His innovative thinking around notions such as ‘the …

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What is group work

WEBGroup work can emphasize ‘action and influence as well as reaction and adaption’ ( op. cit. ). Thus, Allan Brown argues: … group work provides a context in …

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Muscular Christianity – infed.org:

WEBThe notion of Muscular Christianity was an important feature of some key discourses around work with boys and men in the second half of the nineteenth century. Here …

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informal, non-formal and formal education

WEBWhether we are identified as a formal or informal educator we will use a mix of the formal and informal. What sets the two apart is the relative emphasis placed on …

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Saul Alinsky, community organizing and rules for radicals

WEBSaul Alinsky’s work is an important reference point for thinking about community organizing and community development. His books Reveille for Radicals …

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Robert Putnam, social capital and civic community – infed.org:

WEBLife. Born and raised in Port Clinton, Ohio, Robert Putnam is one of a long series of writers on community and civic participation that comes from a small town ( …

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