Teaching and Learning About Communities: Principles and Practices

✍ Scribed by Katharine Kravetz (auth.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 114
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book provides a rationale and conceptual framework for teaching and learning about community. It focuses on what community means in multiple contexts, outlines the needs and assets of communities, and discusses different approaches to community change. The book provides real life examples of integrated approaches to community transformation as well as sample exercises to promote a better understanding of community challenges and approaches to solve them. Applicable in the classroom and in actual community work, the book’s conceptual and practical approach can be used to study community, or to integrate community issues into learning in virtually any field.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Introduction....Pages 1-6
Perspectives on the Meaning of Community....Pages 7-17
Assets of and Challenges to Communities....Pages 19-40
Strategies and Agents of Community Well-Being....Pages 41-56
Case Studies in Community....Pages 57-83
Learning Through Reflective Exercises and Community Experience....Pages 85-100
Learning Objectives....Pages 101-106
Back Matter....Pages 107-109

✦ Subjects

Education Policy;Teaching and Teacher Education