Description
Book SynopsisCommunities for Social Change: Practicing Equality and Social Justice in Youth and Community Work examines core ideas of social justice and equality that underpin community and youth work. It informs understanding of a range of community concepts and practices that are used to identify practical skills and characteristics that can help to promote equality by challenging injustice. Working with people in different types of community can bring the kind of social change that makes a real and lasting difference. Although justice is a contested notion, Annette Coburn and Sinéad Gormally assert that it is closely interlinked with human rights and equality. A critical examination of contemporary literature draws on educational, sociological, and psychological perspectives, to set community practices within a context for learning that is conversational, critical and informal. Social justice is about identifying and seeking to address structural disadvantage, discrimination,
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“Annette Coburn and Sinéad Gormally have produced a closely argued and well-illustrated text that shows a sound understanding of relevant theory and a sensitive appreciation of the situations of young people, communities and those who work with them. I recommend <> as a key text for policy makers, practitioners and those who research community and youth development.” Ian Finlay, University of Oxford
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments – Introduction – Striving for Unifying Principles and Values – Social Justice and Equality – Community – Understanding Power and Empowerment – Critical Reflexivity – An Alternative Social Vision – Positive Psychology and Resilience in Communities – A Critical Border Pedagogy for Praxis – Index.
