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Teaching and learning about communities = principles and practices /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Teaching and learning about communities/ by Katharine Kravetz.
Reminder of title:	principles and practices /
Author:	Kravetz, Katharine.
Published:	New York :Palgrave Macmillan US : : 2017.,
Description:	viii, 109 p. :ill., digital ; : 24 cm.;
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	Communities - Study and teaching. -
Online resource:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56109-1
ISBN:	9781137561091

Teaching and learning about communities = principles and practices /
Kravetz, Katharine.

Teaching and learning about communitiesprinciples and practices /[electronic resource] :by Katharine Kravetz. - New York :Palgrave Macmillan US :2017. - viii, 109 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.

Introduction -- Chapter 1: Perspectives on the Meaning of Community -- Chapter 2: Assets of and Challenges to Communities -- Chapter 3: Strategies and Agents of Community Well Being -- Chapter 4: Case Studies in Community -- Chapter 5: Learning through Reflective Exercises and Community Experience -- Chapter 6: Critical Learning Objectives.

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 any field. 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.

ISBN: 9781137561091

Standard No.: 10.1057/978-1-137-56109-1doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

1250135
Communities
--Study and teaching.

LC Class. No.: HM756 / .K73 2017

Dewey Class. No.: 307.071

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