Overview

How can change be promoted and sustained in disadvantaged communities and for children in communities? How can professionals be supported to bring about positive change in communities? How can collaborative research and evaluation make a difference? The chapters in this book, emanating from the Communities and Change Conference at the University of Sydney in 2007, explore these questions, demonstrating the challenging and constructive connections between education and social work, between universities and community organisations, and between research and practice.

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Author:   Dr Dorothy Bottrell ,  Professor Gabrielle Meagher
Publisher:   Sydney University Press
Imprint:   Sydney University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.80cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 21.00cm
Weight:   0.435kg
ISBN:  

9781920898847

ISBN 10:   1920898840
Pages:   317
Publication Date:   02 September 2008
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contributors Preface Introduction Gabrielle Meagher and Dorothy Bottrell Supporting change for disadvantaged communities 1. The reality of locational social disadvantage: what could help to reduce its ill-effects?Tony Vinson 2. From authoritarian to democratic schooling: schooling that empowers young people Ebeny Wood 3. Change and resistance to change: community development in a rural caste community in South India Frank Tesoriero 4. Preliminary findings from the National Youth Cultures of Eating Study: gender, social class and ethnic differences in childhood obesity Jennifer O’Dea Supporting change for children in communities 5. Max and the knight: how a therapeutic story provided a connection point for child, family, school, human service agencies and communityLeigh Burrows 6. Examining the range of strategies mothers use to cope when caring for a child with an intellectual disability David Evans and Iva Strnadová Supporting professionals for community change 7. Communities@work: engaging Gen Y in community work studies through blended distributed deliveryKerry Russo 8. ‘The theories make you pay more attention to how things happen’: the impact of theory on the practice of pre-service teachers in their role as student mentors Lesley Scanlon 9. ‘Caution children crossing ahead’: child protection education with pre-service teachers using a strengths approach Angela Fenton 10. Examining teacher responses to a professional learning program addressing learning disabilities Kay Munyard, Lyndall Sullivan, Jason Skues and Everarda Cunningham Research collaboration for change 11. Making interpretive knowledge focal: developing an interdisciplinary dialogue on research into integrated early childhood services Sue Nichols and Lana Zannettino 12. Beyond the sandstone: research partnerships between the community welfare sector and universitiesMargot Rawsthorne 13. Research for practice in small human service organisations: doing and disseminating small-scale research Suzanne Egan

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Dorothy Bottrell is a senior lecturer in social pedagogy at Victoria University (Melbourne). Gabrielle Meagher is a professor of social policy at Macquarie University.

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