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Learning, Practice and Change in the World

Learning, Practice and Change in the World. Community Development and a New World Order. “Global” financial crisis UK’s austerity measures Shift from rights to responsibilities Big Society Occupy Where is Community Development in all of this?. Threats & Opportunities. Analysis

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Learning, Practice and Change in the World

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  1. Learning, Practice and Change in the World Community Development and a New World Order

  2. “Global” financial crisis • UK’s austerity measures • Shift from rights to responsibilities • Big Society • Occupy Where is Community Development in all of this? Threats & Opportunities

  3. Analysis • The current system is oppressive • People as subjects not objects • People as solutions not just problems • Structures not just individuals • Practice • Doing with not doing to • Process & product both important • Values • Committed to Social Justice Our Unique Contribution

  4. Starting with lived experience • Re-seeing the world • Discovery of personal power • Belief in the possibility of change • Vision of a different world Individual

  5. Experiments in a new way of being • Being heard • Creating new knowledge, new possibilities • Stronger together than alone • Collectivising individual issues • Developing generative themes • Planning, taking action and reflecting Group

  6. Building people power • Making demands • Developing tactics • Having victories Power Organisations

  7. Based on shared values and commitment to global social justice • Developing a different common sense Networks/New World Order

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