Settlements, Social Change and Community Action
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Settlements, Social Change and Community Action

Good Neighbours

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Settlements, Social Change and Community Action

Good Neighbours

About this book

Reflecting the current emphasis in social care, social policy and welfare on the ideas of community and active citizenship, this book draws implications from the history of the settlement movement in Britain and the States which will inform and contextualise contemporary practice and policy.
The contributors to this illuminating book develop the basic settlement concepts of strong communities and links across groups with different kinds of need, and apply them to current policy developments in community responsibility, the role of voluntary work and the future of social care. The issues explored through the history of the settlement movement are not only applicable to practice; they will also reinforce the identity of social care as a profession.

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Table of contents

  1. Settlements, Social Change and Community Action: Good Neighbours
  2. Contents
  3. Preface
  4. Introduction
  5. 1 The secular faith of the social settlements: ā€˜If Christ came to Chicago’
  6. 2 American settlement houses: The first half century
  7. 3 Development of the English settlement movement
  8. 4 Strength in community: Historical development of settlements internationally
  9. 5 One hundred years of the Birmingham Settlement Jon Glasby
  10. 6 Raising the past: Toynbee today
  11. 7 Settlements and adult education
  12. 8 ā€˜Something to give and much to learn’: Settlements and youth work
  13. 9 Settlements and the arts
  14. 10 Family centres: In the settlement tradition?
  15. 11 Social entrepreneurs or sleeping giants?: Settlements in Britain today
  16. List of Contributors
  17. Subject Index
  18. Author Index