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Showing 1 to 20 of 49 for “"Community work."”.
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Practice Bold as Love: ‘Professing’ Community Work
Community work is a values driven occupation committed to social transformation, human rights, equality, anti-discrimination, social and environmental justice through the processes of collective empowerment, and participation (Ledwith 2005; AIEB 2016). The story of community work in Ireland sees a …
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Community work as practised by the Valley Trust
… and evaluate the approach to the practice of community work in a newly developing rural community. The Valley Trust, a social welfare organisation engaged in a health promotion scheme in a rural community is used for the purpose of the analysis and*evaluation. The study report consists of nine …
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Reassembling anti-oppressive teaching practices in professionally qualifying youth and community work education
… (AOP) in professionally qualifying youth and community education is taught and its role in enacting a commitment to social justice. The inquiry worked with Collective Biography (CB) (Davies and Gannon, 2006) to ask how posthuman and new materialist concepts might facilitate such processes and …
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Teachers' perceptions of benefits and barriers to school and community work-based learning experiences for students with severe disabilities
… of the benefits and barriers to school and community work-based learning experiences (WBLEs). High school special education teachers who had at least one student on their caseload with severe disabilities aged 14 or older completed an online questionnaire (N = 137). Exploratory factor …
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Informal and popular education in youth and community work : seeking insights for Australian theory and practice from theories and practices in Germany and Singapore
This thesis is a comparative study of youth and community work in three countries. Using field work in Australia and Singapore, and a study of German literature I examine the way youth and community workers in these three countries theorise about their educational practice. The following questions …
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A survey of community social work agencies in greater Cape Town
A survey of sixteen community social work agencies in Greater Cape Town was conducted from December 1981 to June 1982. Community social work agencies were defined as voluntary associations that currently employed workers to practise the method of community work and whose community work could be …
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COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT IN SOUTH KOREA: TOWARDS DEVELOPING A LOCAL MODEL FOR PRACTICE
ABSTRACT This study aims to explore community empowerment practice (CEP) in South Korea (SK) and develop a Korean model of CEP. To begin, I describe key contexts of Korean society such as political, economical and cultural backgrounds alongside the history of Korean community work. To achieve the …
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An Investigation into the Key Components of Mentoring Interaction
… of the mentoring praxis. The research framework adopts an interpretive methodological approach, incorporating qualitative methods in order to gain a detailed insight into the subjective experiences of the mentors and mentees. The methods included collecting 13 individual semi-structured …
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Bringing Voices in from the Cold: Analysing the Efficacy of Asset-Based Community Development in a Voluntary Homelessness Organisation
… and evaluates the usefulness of asset-based community development (ABCD) to develop opportunities for participation with homeless people. Current research suggests that asset-based ways of working can promote effective alternatives to needs-based procedures and engage service users within …
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Methods of Community Engagement between Oil Multinational Companies and Communities in the Nigerian Niger Delta Region: A Critical Analysis of the Activities of Eni SpA, Total SA and RD Shell
This thesis made new contributions to the company-community relations field by incorporating institutional theory, stakeholder theory and community engagement theory, to investigate the community engagement strategies, community relations approaches and social responsibility practices used by …
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"The baby will grow" : a poststructuralist and psychodynamic analysis of a community psychology intervention
… psychologists have recognised the need for community approaches in South Africa which maximise access to psychological intervention and which value politically aware psychological practice. Few extended analyses of such interventions exist in the literature, and community psychology has been …
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The experience of African Caribbean patients in high secure care
… study was conceived and undertaken by a social work practitioner working in Ashworth high secure hospital on Merseyside. The aims of the study were to gather rich accounts of the experiences of African Caribbean men in high secure care and to identify their specific needs. A representative from …
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"Is there a way back to me, for me"? Older men's stories of Life, Loss, Connection and Community Development.
… older men do not connect in any real way with community work, are difficult to engage with, and are at risk of isolation. This narrative inquiry tells the story of six older men (55+) living on the margins of society in a public sheltered housing complex in Dublin and how they talk about their …
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IL SERVIZIO SOCIALE DI COMUNITÀ IN ITALIA: INTER-AZIONI TRA COMUNITÀ, ISTITUZIONI E TERRITORIO. Il caso del riordino del Servizio Sociale territoriale del Comune di Bologna.
… capitolo, invece, si affronta il tema del community partecipation e si approfondiscono le dinamiche che prendono vita in un contesto comunitario (come la cooperazione o il conflitto) attraverso esempi concreti di comunità locali attive. Nel terzo capitolo, viene, poi, analizzata la pratica …
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Politics and emotion in work with disadvantaged children : case studies in consultation from a South African clinic
… political complexities involved. This kind of work is usually informed by the broad principles of community psychology and carries a concern with the broader political context of mental health. Typically, however, this approach gives less consideration to the emotional dynamics of this kind of …
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Life-saving or life-limiting? : Young women’s experiences of the HPV vaccination programme
Taking inspiration from my professional youth and community work background, I merge this professional scholarship (Batsleer and Davies, 2010; Batsleer, 2013; Bradford and Cullen, 2012; Packham, 2000) with that on contemporary feminism (McRobbie, 2009; Ryan-Flood and Gill, 2010; Penny, 2014; Gill …
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The Social Construction of Loss and Grief: Experiences of Coastal Louisiana Residents
… communities using the experiences of the community of Boothville-Venice, Louisiana, and examining their narratives for an understanding of loss. This thesis uses symbolic interactionism, and draws from existing literature in psychology, thanatology, and sociology to develop the …
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Interrogating Artist-Teacher Identity Transformation in Adult Community Learning
… literature on the role of artist-teachers working in FE generally and ACL more specifically. There is significant published research on artist-teachers in secondary and higher education within the UK and North America, where they are defined, and their role and experience delineated. …
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Making Sense of Community Informatics: The Development and Application of the Community Event Research Method
"Major findings include: the framework (CERM) based on community events and organized in three steps (representation, alignment, engagement) and three design principles for community ICTs. The thesis concludes that designing a participatory community ICT rests on three general principles that help …
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