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Book SynopsisIn 1969, Colin Kirkwood took on the job of Area Principal for Adult Education in north-east Derbyshire. There he formed a remarkable creative partnership with Rob Hunter, a brilliant young Community Worker. This is the story of their collaboration and dialogue with the people of Staveley, a small coal, steel and chemicals town in the north-midlands of England. Together they created the local newspaper, Staveley Now, the Staveley Disabled Group, the Staveley Festival and much else. Community Work and Adult Education in Staveley, North-East Derbyshire celebrates this important collaboration by drawing on letters, interviews, poems, issues of the local newspaper and reports and articles written at the time. The research and critical assessment of their work together in the early 1970s can be linked with that of Paulo Freire in Latin America and throughout the world.
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Table of ContentsForeword Sarah Banks Foreword: Staveley: There and Then, Here and Now Linden West Acknowledgements List of Acronyms About the Author Introduction 1 Stance and Methodology 2 The Social, Economic, Political and Institutional Context 3 The Young Volunteer Force Foundation Report 1 Staveley 4 The Outsiders 1 The List of Polarities Should Be Shown Covering a Whole Facing Page at This Point 19 2 Commentary on Hitler Spring 5 The Initiatives and Activities 1 The First Six Months 2 The Survey of the Disabled 3 The Co-op Hall 4 The Idea of a Local Newspaper 5 The First Meeting 6 The First Issue 7 Staveley Now, No. 1 8 Mastin Moor Complaint 9 The Poolsbrook Page 10 Working-class Poets 11 Letting the People Know 13 Overview of the First Issue 14 The Autumn Programme 15 The Second Issue of Staveley Now 16 This Is Your Life 17 Resurrection 18 Do It Yourself, Says the Duke 19 Poolsbrook Reply 20 Edifying Scatological Diversion 21 Mastin Moor Upsurge Blocked 22 The Workings of a Local Labour Party 23 Staveley Disabled Group 24 Staveley Festival Group 25 Abilities or Disabilities 26 The Hard Men 27 Hell’s Angels Talk 28 More Providing and Informing 29 Staveley Now, No. 4 30 Social Comment Photography 31 Staveley Festival 32 Conflicts in SDG 33 The Drive Towards Centralization 34 Mastin Moor Mothers 35 Staveley Now, No. 6 36 Education Rules OK 37 Strike 6 After-Effects and Retrospects 7 Analysis of Keywords and Themes 1 Thematic Fan One 2 Thematic Fan Two 3 Thematic Fan Three 4 Thematic Fan Four 5 Thematic Fan Five Afterword 1 Personal Reflections on the Work in Staveley 2 A Revival in Community Work in England? 3 Community Work: How can we Learn to do it Better? 4 Integrating the Intrapersonal and Interpersonal: Emotional Literacy in Community Work 5 Convergence 6 Author’s note Responses to Sarah Banks, Linden West and Rob Hunter Bibliography Index
