Enabling Active Citizenship and Community Learning explores the role of the worker in facilitating participation, learning, and active engagement within communities. The book is a timely addition to general community work texts, focusing on recent UK government initiatives to strengthen citizen and community engagement at a community and local authority level. 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, and it sets UK community work as an educational process. It raises dilemmas that can arise from possible interventions and it gives strategies for reflective, effective practice.
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