Community Development: A Critical Approach -Hardcover

Book Summary of Community Development: A Critical Approach Margaret Ledwith is one of the UK's most highly regarded community development practitioners and academics. This book, developed from her classic text, Participating in transforamtion, is an invaluable new resource for students and practitioner in the field. The book advocates a critical appraoch to community development that locates theory in practice, emphasising its transformative rather than ameliorative potential. Grounded in the pedagogy of Paulo Freire and drawing on feminsit and other relevant theoreis. About Author : Margaret Ledwith lives in Lancaster where she is Reader in Community Development at St Marting's College. She has worked in a variety of community settings in Scotland and North-West England. Contents : Tables and figures Foreword Acknowledgements Glossary Notes on the author Opening thoughts Why empower? The story of a community Doing community development Organising in the commuity Collective action for change The power of ideas Critiquest of Freire and Gramsci Towards a Freirean-feminist pedagogy The Way forward Tables and Figures