Development Practitioners' Handbook

Häftad, Engelska, 1996

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Beskrivning

Development is recognised as a major challenge, if not the major challenge, facing us all as we enter the twenty-first century. Yet those who practise development do so in a terrain which has become highly contested and contentious. Allan Kaplan demonstrates that the discipline of the development practitioner is an art which demands imagination, flexibility and the ability to work with ambiguity and contradiction; one which can use guidelines but not rules. Uniquely, The Development Practitioners’ Handbook views development from the point of view of the individual, the organisation, the community and society, as well as a living process in its own right, and explains where the development practitioner is best placed to pursue his or her work. Allan Kaplan outlines the illusive nature of development itself, in order to deepen and underpin the practice of development and to provide it with foundation and meaning.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1996-06-20
Mått:135 x 215 x 15 mm
Vikt:228 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:144
Förlag:Pluto Press
ISBN:9780745310213

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Allan Kaplan is co-founder of the Proteus Initiative, and former Director of the Community Development Resource Association in Cape Town, South Africa. He specialises in working with NGOs and community-based organisations across Southern and East Africa, as well as in Europe. He is the author of Development Practitioners and Social Process (Pluto, 2002) and The Development Practitioners' Handbook (Pluto, 1996).

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'A book that all reflective practitioners should read, and read again'

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PrefacePrelude1. NATURAL PROCESSESBiological, human, and organisational development processes.INTERLUDE: COHESION AND DIVISION2. PATHS AND DESTINATIONSPhases of development, and some initial thoughts on directionINTERLUDE: RESISTANCE AND AWAKENING3. SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT AS GROWTH AND REVOLUTIONThe current impasse in development.4. DEVELOPMENT AS THE BUILDING OF CIVIL SOCIETYNew directions for development.INTERLUDE: LEADERSHIP5. A NEW STANCEIntegration, interdependence and organisational consciousness.INTERLUDE: ORGANISATION6. THE PRACTICE OF THE DEVELOPMENT PRACTITIONERINTERLUDE: INTERVENTION7. THE ART OF THE DEVELOPMENT PRACTITIONERNotes and referencesIndex