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.
The context of active citizenship and community learning
The role of the youth and community worker as informal educator
Civil and civic involvement and 'active citizens'
Volunteers and active citizens
The role of the youth and community worker in relation to volunteers
Enabling participation in communities
Inclusive and representative practice
Community based learning: learning by doing
The effective practitioner
Taking the work forward
