A perspective on community-based education and training

Westoby, Peter and Shevellar, Lynda (2012). A perspective on community-based education and training. In Peter Westoby and Lynda Shevellar (Ed.), Learning and mobilising for community development: a radical tradition of community-based education and training (pp. 13-24) Surrey, United Kingdom: Ashgate.

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Author Westoby, Peter
Shevellar, Lynda
Title of chapter A perspective on community-based education and training
Title of book Learning and mobilising for community development: a radical tradition of community-based education and training
Place of Publication Surrey, United Kingdom
Publisher Ashgate
Publication year 2012
Sub-type Critical scholarly text
Editor Peter Westoby
Lynda Shevellar
ISBN 9781409443841; 9781409443858
Chapter number 2
Start page 13
End page 24
Total pages 8
Total chapters 16
Collection year 2013
Language eng
Formatted Abstract/Summary Within normative community development processes people come together because they share some common concern. This 'coming together' usually emerges organically- people find one another within their existing networks, or it can happen purposefully - someone such as a community worker, leader or activist enables it to happen through networking and inviting people to come together. In this process of coming together people discover the possibilities and potentials of cooperation. People learn or realise that what they could not do or make sense of alone, they can do as a group. Within community development methodology a key part of this process is the shift from what is sometimes understood as 'I' to 'We'. lt is a critical shift, a significant movement. It is the formation or construction of community (Brent 2009).[extract]
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