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Community Informatics: Library Facilitating Community Development
Tūzī yǔ dàng’àn xuékān, 2022 The new library science is moving towards the community, hoping to help its development through knowledge innovation. The relationship between the community and the library has become closer, and the librarians’ mission is to help change the community ...
Ling-Hwey Jeng, Mei-Ling Wang
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Gateways, 2023 This themed volume is grounded in a set of diverse case studies that bring community and university partners together using two aligned methodologies: community-based research (CBR), which evolved from higher education, and asset-based community ...
Mark Chupp +2 more
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Does more medicine make us sicker? Ivan Illich revisited
Gaceta Sanitaria, 2019 A proper understanding of health is a social and political challenge, the modern social medicine approach to public health and health approaches more generally tend to minimise this, making the isolated individual the primary unit of health. Ivan Illich,
Cormac Russell
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Faith as an asset in a community development project: The case of Madagascar
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2021 Contributing to the emerging religion and development literature, this study sets out to analyse the role of faith in the context of a particular development approach, ‘Use Your Talents’ (UYT) at the Malagasy Lutheran Church in Madagascar.
Zo R. Rakotoarison +2 more
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Societies, 2020 This paper explores two policy efforts to revitalize public housing communities: education reform and HOPE VI. Chicago underwent transformation of housing and schools from 2000 to 2014.
April Jackson
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Societies, 2020 Community-based theater has a variety of manifestations, and the plurality with which these manifestations are occurring is increasing. As such, the diversity and complexity derived from these social sites of public engagement requires further ...
Zechariah Lange
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Partnership for change: A collaborative framework for transformative engagement with the communities
Gateways, 2023 Institutes of knowledge production, namely higher educational institutes, interpret their role in relation to engagement in various forms. This article focuses on one such collaboration between academia and a local rural community intended to ...
Purva Bhatt, Manju Singh
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Social Work/Maatskaplike Werk, 2020 The research on which this article is based drew a comparison between the asset-based community-led development (ABCD) approach and the more traditional needs-based approach to community development with regard to stakeholder engagement. The main finding
Hanna Nel
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The empowerment of informal settlements by Moving from the need-based to asset-based approach; (case study of Farahzad, one of the Tehran’s neighborhoods) [PDF]
برنامهریزی توسعه شهری و منطقهای, 2021 Along with the evolution of the empowerment approach and the expansion of community-based policies, the development of local communities and informal settlements has shifted to asset-based rather than the need-based approach.
Reza Kheiroddin, Alireza Salahimoghadam
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Community asset mapping in Logan
, 2021 Where children and young people live can have a substantial impact on their quality of life. Research has shown that communities facing relative disadvantage often experience poorer outcomes in terms of continued engagement with education, opportunities ...
Oxley, Sherena, Krahe, Michelle
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