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1. www.gov.uk › community-development-handbookCommunity development handbook - GOV.UK

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   Nov 29, 2023 · This handbook is for people developing communities of practice in government. What a community of practice is. Communities of practice are for people who share common job roles,...

2. cldstandardscouncil.org.uk › wp-content › uploadsCommunity Development National Occupational Standards

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   Community development enables people to work collectively to bring about positive social change. This long term process starts from people’s own experience and enables communities* to work together to: Identify their own needs and actions. Take collective action using their strengths and resources.

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3. academic.oup.com › cdj › articleStructure and agency: a debate for community development?

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   Feb 27, 2011 · Intentionality and the capacity of actors to exhibit conscious and goal driven behaviour are considered to be the defining characteristics of agency with the implication that beliefs and desires can provide the motives and explanations for the actions that individuals take (Callinicos, 2004).

   • Author: Stuart Connor

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4. www.tandfonline.com › doi › fullCommunity agency and empowerment—a need for new perspectives ...

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   Jun 12, 2018 · Community agency. At the core of any community intervention is community agency, which is a crucial part of context. Agency is defined as the capability of achieving change or action when needed and is closely related to empowerment (Citation 9).

   • Author: Mats Målqvist

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5. www.cambridge.org › core › books3 - Community Development: Principles and Practice

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   If society needs ‘community’, and community doesn't necessarily just happen, what is needed to help bring it about? How does community work support networks and promote greater connectivity? Chapter 3 provides an overview of community development.

   • Author: Alison Gilchrist

   • Publish Year: 2019

6. link.springer.com › chapter › 10Promoting Voice and Agency in Community Development Processes

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   Oct 20, 2023 · A transformation agenda based on identified key actions that facilitate community members to participate and be part of the change that is needed in their communities and societies to deepen and mainstream promotion of voice and agency in community development processes is important.

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   What is community development?

   • Processes and principles are regarded as paramount and this is reflected through an emphasis on working with, rather than for or on behalf of, people. In this book, the term ‘community development’ is used broadly, encompassing a number of approaches to working with communities, and these different models will be explored further in this chapter.

   3 - Community Development: Principles and Practice

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   What is community development practice?

   • Community development enables people to work collectively to bring about positive social change. in order to improve the quality of their own lives, the communities in which they live and societies of which they are a part. What are the Standards?

   Community Development National Occupational Standards

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   How do community development practitioners relate to their roles and actions?

   • Community development practitioners need to relate these values to their roles and actions. There are five key values that underpin all community development practice: Communities refer to those that can be defined by geography, identity or interest. In community The development PRACTICE and PROCESS are key to the work.

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   What is community agency?

   • At the core of any community intervention is community agency, which is a crucial part of context. Agency is defined as the capability of achieving change or action when needed and is closely related to empowerment (9). There is a continuous debate within social sciences regarding the relationship between agency and social structure (10).

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   What is a defining year for community development?

   • They show that, in one form or another community development has always been there, evolving from one generation to the next. Through all these movements run individual stories. For me personally, the defining year was 1981 – the peak of Thatcherism and the community-architecture-focused ‘technical aid’ movement in the timeline.

   A history of community development – Local Trust long reads

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   Who started community development?

   • Instead, the bundle of ideas we know as community development seems to have begun in a series of sparks from people like the Chicago activist Saul Alinksy or the Quaker ambulance driver Tony Gibson in Blitz-hit Stepney, both in the early 1940s. Or, not long afterwards, from the Catholic priest Ivan Illich in the Puerto Rican slums of New York.

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8. longreads.localtrust.org.uk › 2021/05/01 › a-historyA history of community development – Local Trust long reads

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   May 1, 2021 · When community development reached the UK, by the late 1960s, these were deeply radical thoughts. But, over the years – thanks partly to the National Lottery, partly to the Blair government and partly to an alphabet soup of acronyms – we have an unimaginably more timid and besuited, professionalised set of processes.