Empowering communities through active learning: challenges and contradictions

Banks, S.; Vickers, T.

Empowering communities through active learning: challenges and contradictions

Banks, S.; Vickers, T.

Authors

Professor Sarah Banks s.j.banks@durham.ac.uk
Professor

T. Vickers

Abstract

This article critically examines a regional programme of community development learning in the context of current UK government policies to develop and engage ‘active communities’ in neighbourhood and civil renewal. It outlines the positive outcomes of offering focussed community development learning at local level in developing individual confidence and skills and enhancing community networks. It also highlights the limitations of working to individual training/qualifications targets, prescribed outputs and pre-defined curricula in terms of achieving ‘active communities’ that are either fit for community governance or for more radical collective action for social change.

Citation

Banks, S., & Vickers, T. (2006). Empowering communities through active learning: challenges and contradictions

Journal Article Type	Article
Publication Date	Jan 1, 2006
Deposit Date	Jan 20, 2017
Publicly Available Date	Jan 20, 2017
Journal	Journal of community work and development
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	8
Pages	83-104