Product Description
Community development in the 21st Century: Empowerment for Breaking the Cycle of Poverty (7th edition)
Authors: F de Beer, M de Beer
Format: Physical Hardcopy
This book builds on decades of practice-experience in education for community development. With a clear focus on professionalization, Community development in the 21st Century: Empowerment for Breaking the Cycle of Poverty is a definitive guide for community development practitioners, professionals and students alike.
In addition to context and process, the book details the skills required by a community development practitioner and explains the local government context of community development practice in particular. The book also provides an overview of the professionalization process of community development in South Africa. The book contains practical case studies, specifically relevant to the South African environment.
Contents:
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Chapter 1Poverty, ill-being and wellbeing
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Chapter 2 The development environment
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Chapter 3 Stakeholders in community development
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Chapter 4 The origins of community development
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Chapter 5 The features and outcomes of community development
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Chapter 6 The principles of community development
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Chapter 7 The community as main actor in community development
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Chapter 8 The place and role of community development workers
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Chapter 9 Participatory decision making and management
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Chapter 10 Communication skills
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Chapter 11 Leadership development and group facilitation
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Chapter 12 Conflict resolution, mediation and negotiation
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Chapter 13 Mobilisation and motivation
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Chapter 14 Operational writing
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Chapter 15 Meetings
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Chapter 16 Public speaking
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Chapter 17 Contact making
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Chapter 18 Participatory research methodology
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Chapter 19 The start of a project
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Chapter 20 Planning and implementation
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Chapter 21 Evaluation and control
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Chapter 22 The training dialogue
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Chapter 23 Planning and facilitating a training workshop
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