Overview

In 1969, Colin Kirkwood took on the job of Area Principal for Adult Education in north-east Derbyshire. There he formed a remarkable creative partnership with Rob Hunter, a brilliant young Community Worker. This is the story of their collaboration and dialogue with the people of Staveley, a small coal, steel and chemicals town in the north-midlands of England. Together they created the local newspaper, Staveley Now, the Staveley Disabled Group, the Staveley Festival and much else. Community Work and Adult Education in Staveley, North-East Derbyshire celebrates this important collaboration by drawing on letters, interviews, poems, issues of the local newspaper and reports and articles written at the time. The research and critical assessment of their work together in the early 1970s can be linked with that of Paulo Freire in Latin America and throughout the world.

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Author:   Colin Kirkwood
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   28
Weight:   0.427kg
ISBN:  

9789004412293

ISBN 10:   9004412298
Pages:   134
Publication Date:   30 January 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Foreword  Sarah Banks Foreword: Staveley: There and Then, Here and Now  Linden West Acknowledgements List of Acronyms About the Author Introduction 1 Stance and Methodology 2 The Social, Economic, Political and Institutional Context 3 The Young Volunteer Force Foundation Report   1 Staveley 4 The Outsiders   1 The List of Polarities Should Be Shown Covering a Whole Facing Page at This Point 19   2 Commentary on Hitler Spring 5 The Initiatives and Activities   1 The First Six Months   2 The Survey of the Disabled   3 The Co-op Hall   4 The Idea of a Local Newspaper   5 The First Meeting   6 The First Issue   7 Staveley Now, No. 1   8 Mastin Moor Complaint   9 The Poolsbrook Page   10 Working-class Poets   11 Letting the People Know   13 Overview of the First Issue   14 The Autumn Programme   15 The Second Issue of Staveley Now   16 This Is Your Life   17 Resurrection   18 Do It Yourself, Says the Duke   19 Poolsbrook Reply   20 Edifying Scatological Diversion   21 Mastin Moor Upsurge Blocked   22 The Workings of a Local Labour Party   23 Staveley Disabled Group   24 Staveley Festival Group   25 Abilities or Disabilities   26 The Hard Men   27 Hell’s Angels Talk   28 More Providing and Informing   29 Staveley Now, No. 4   30 Social Comment Photography   31 Staveley Festival   32 Conflicts in SDG   33 The Drive Towards Centralization   34 Mastin Moor Mothers   35 Staveley Now, No. 6   36 Education Rules OK   37 Strike 6 After-Effects and Retrospects 7 Analysis of Keywords and Themes   1 Thematic Fan One   2 Thematic Fan Two   3 Thematic Fan Three   4 Thematic Fan Four   5 Thematic Fan Five Afterword   1 Personal Reflections on the Work in Staveley   2 A Revival in Community Work in England?   3 Community Work: How can we Learn to do it Better?   4 Integrating the Intrapersonal and Interpersonal: Emotional Literacy in Community Work   5 Convergence   6 Author’s note Responses to Sarah Banks, Linden West and Rob Hunter Bibliography Index

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See a write up of the book in The Derbyshire Times

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Colin Kirkwood studied at the Universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh. He was Area Principal for Adult Education in North-East Derbyshire, and Tutor Organiser and District Secretary of the Workers Educational Association in South-East Scotland. He taught Community Education and was Head of Counselling Studies in the University of Edinburgh. Later he worked as Psychotherapist with people suffering from severe eating disorders.

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