Active Citizenship and Community Learning

Download or read book Active Citizenship and Community Learning written by Carol Packham and published by Learning Matters. This book was released on 2008-09-08 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the role of the worker in facilitating participation, learning and active engagement within communities. Focusing on recent initiatives to strengthen citizen and community engagement, it provides guidance, frameworks and activities to help in work with community members, either as different types of volunteers or as part of self-help groups. Setting community work as an educational process, the book also highlights dilemmas arising from possible interventions and gives strategies for reflective, effective practice.