- Hardcover: 320 pages
- Publisher: Greenwood Press (24 April 1989)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0313264058
- ISBN-13: 978-0313264054
- Product Dimensions: 2.4 x 1.7 x 0.3 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,614,927 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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?. . . I believe this book can contribute more than the authors realize to what needs to be understood by experiential community development educators. I hope the book will receive a wide, patient, and probing reading by that community.?-Journal of the Commuity Development Society
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These 20 essays illustrate teaching strategies that can be incorporated into community-based practicums and internships. The book explores the innovative uses of experiential education in community work. Useful techniques for community problem-solving and ways in which groups can learn to work together more effectively are provided. There are new applications of democratic practice. Mutual self-respect and collective self-reliance are encouraged. Practitioners will find they can have power in an increasingly interdependent society and world. "Experiential Education for Community Development" suggests a degree of pre-planning accompanied by analysis.
The essays are organized by topic. Two beginning essays provide an overview and general theoretical orientation to the material. The next four sections offer a variety of case studies on community work education experience in the United States and other countries drawn primarily from programs of community and organizational development and community education. An afterword presents a synthesis of the editors' findings and an assessment of the future of experiential education in community work. This volume is the third in a series on the concepts, issues, and strategies of community development education and training. "Experiential Education for Community Development" is a valuable resource for practitioners and teachers of community work.
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Experiential education flourished in the early days of human history where human societies depended upon close-knit families and clans for sharing survival techniques-the skills of the hunt, food gathering, and defenses against wild animals, human enemies, extremes of weather, and disease. Read the first page
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