Community Development: A Critical Approach

Book Details

• Author: Margaret Ledwith

• Publisher: Rawat Publications

• Language: English

• Edition: First Edition

• ISBN: 9788131600399

• Pages: 212

• Cover: Hardcover

• Dimensions: 9.8 x 6.5 x 0.6 inches

About the Book

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 Transformation, serves as an invaluable resource for students and practitioners in the field of community development.

The book advocates a critical approach to community development, focusing on transformative rather than ameliorative potential. Grounded in the pedagogy of Paulo Freire and drawing on feminist and other relevant theories, it helps readers:

• Gain an understanding of key community development theories.

• Develop practical skills alongside the ability to analyse and reflect.

• Situate local practice within a global context.

The text is enriched with narrative case studies, drawn from the author’s own experiences, which clearly illustrate how to apply the ideas, models, and analyses discussed. It covers a range of practices, from the personal to the political, and the local to the global, in relation to ongoing crises in poverty, justice, and sustainability.

Practitioners, students, and educators involved in community development, youth and community work, social work, health, and education, as well as those in other professions with a community development focus, will find this work an invaluable contribution to theory and practice today.

About the Author

Margaret Ledwith lives in Lancaster, where she is a Reader in Community Development at St Martin’s College. She has worked in various community settings in Scotland and North-West England.