Description
Product ID: | 9780335245116 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | Analysing Community Work: Theory and Practice |
Authors: | Author: Keith Popple |
Page Count: | 200 |
Subjects: | Social work, Social work |
Description: | Select Guide Rating This is a key text in community work, discussing international thinkers and arguing for more critical analysis of community work. Community work is a unique and important activity that has the potential to help individuals, groups and communities achieve change. This brand new update of an established and acclaimed text explores and analyses different theoretical approaches to community work. Written in a highly accessible style, this book is grounded in practice issues and tackles political and theoretical issues head-on. New to the second edition:
"''Analysing Community Work'' provided a key text, tackling issues of theory and practice in accessible ways for some two decades. This second edition builds upon the strengths of the first, updating the book to take account of the major changes that have been taking place since then, both in Britain and internationally. Popple’s critical consideration of the impacts of globalization, neo-liberalism, changing technologies, increasing inequalities and increasing concerns with environmental issues will be particularly welcomed. This edition will be essential reading for those who read and appreciated the first as well as for a new generation of readers." "Popple''s book was one of the key overviews of British community work when it first appeared in 1995. In the last few years, the need for a revised and updated version has been increasingly obvious and Popple has now obliged. The last twenty years have seen substantial changes in the political, economic and organisational context within which community work operates and Popple has fully reflected this whilst remaining clear about its basic tenets and goals. This is a highly welcome addition to contemporary community work literature." |
Imprint Name: | Open University Press |
Publisher Name: | Open University Press |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2015-04-16 |