Product Description

Enabling Active Citizenship and Community Learning explores the role of the worker in facilitating participation, learning and active engagement within communities. This book is a timely addition to general community work texts, focusing on recent government initiatives to strengthen citizen and community engagement, at a community and local authority level. It provides guidance, frameworks and activities to help in work with community members, either as different types of volunteers, or as part of self help groups, and sets community work as an educational process. It raises dilemmas arising from our possible interventions and gives strategies for reflective, effective practice.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #391897 in Books
• Published on: 2008-09-08
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 160 pages

Review
It is an inspiring and brilliant read and by far the best resource we have on community work today. It goes way beyond just being a good framework for an academic module and in my view should be read widely. --General Secretary, Community and Youth Workers Union

It is absolutely excellent - comprehensive, thought-provoking, topical and accessible. --Lecturer, University of Sunderland

This is a really excellent introductory text which explains core concepts and processes involved in promoting active citizenship and community development. --Lecturer, University of Birmingham.

About the Author
Dr. Carol Packham is the Course Leader of the BA in Youth and Community Work at Manchester Metropolitan University. She is the Director of the Community Audit and Evaluation Centre at MMU, and is co-ordinator of the NW Regional Take Part/Active Learning for Active Citizenship (ALAC) Network. Her work involves the encouragement of community based courses, with progression to MMU. She is an active community volunteer in her local inner city areas where she is the treasurer of a voluntary young peoples project and vice chair of a community forum. Her Doctor of Education (2006) drew on the ALAC work to explore the role for professional Youth and Community Workers in relation to volunteers.