| Description |
xv, 176 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Contents note continued: Caring for the cultural -- Earth care -- 6.Dialogue and training for transformation -- Space to re-imagine -- Stories for sparking re-imagination -- Methods and models for transformative training -- Inspiration and empowerment, not information -- The logic of wishing, willing and acting -- Conclusion -- A passion of not knowing -- Invitation to dialogue and dissent |
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Machine generated contents note: International community development practice -- Dialogical community development: a framework -- Restoring depth: why dialogical community development? -- Widening the framework -- A reflection on theory and practice -- 1.Theoretical prelude: an introduction to dialogue for community development -- A normative perspective on dialogue -- A historical understanding of dialogue -- 2.Re-imagining community practice -- Awakening love -- Deepening participation -- Place-making -- Welcoming problems and shadow -- 3.Transformative community processes -- The discerning and gentling of method -- Widening analysis -- Careful conflicting -- Structuring not strangling -- 4.Analytical interlude: what weakens dialogue within community development -- Ideological positions -- Therapeutic culture -- Growing inequalities -- 5.Caring for different spheres of community life -- Caring for the ordinary -- Caring for the economy -- Caring for politics -- |
| Summary |
"This book proposes that community development has been increasingly influenced and co-opted by a modernist, soulless, rational philosophy - reducing it to a shallow technique for 'solving community problems'. In contrast, this dialogical approach re-maps the ground of community development practice within a frame of ideas such as dialogue, hospitality and depth. For the first time community development practitioners are provided with an accessible understanding of dialogue and its relevance to their practice, exploring the contributions of internationally significant thinkers such as P. Freire, M. Buber, D. Bohm and H.G Gadamer, J. Derrida, G. Esteva and R. Sennett. What makes the book distinctive is that: first, it identifies a dialogical tradition of community development and considers how such a tradition shapes practice within contemporary contexts and concerns -- economic, social, political, cultural and ecological. Second, the book contrasts such an approach with technical and instrumental approaches to development that fail to take complex systems seriously. Third, the approach links theory to practice through a combination of storytelling and theory-reflection -- ensuring that readers are drawn into a practice-theory that they feel increasingly."--Publisher's website |
| Analysis |
Australian |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Community development.
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Dialogue -- Social aspects.
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Interpersonal communication.
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| Author |
Dowling, Gerard.
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| LC no. |
2012050410 |
| ISBN |
0203109945 |
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0415537886 |
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9780203109946 |
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9780415537889 |
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