Teaching and Learning About Communities
Katharine Kravetz
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Hardback. Num Pages: 109 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFS; JHB; JNF; JNMT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 288.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
109
Condition
New
Number of Pages
109
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137561084
SKU
V9781137561084
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Ref
99-15
About Katharine Kravetz
Katharine Kravetz is Assistant Professor Emerita in the School of Professional and Extended Studies at American University, USA. She founded and taught American University’s Washington Semester Transforming Communities and Public Policy Seminar. Kravetz has received the Harvard/Radcliffe Undergraduate History Prize and the Adjunct Faculty Teaching Award from American University’s School of Public Affairs.
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