Action-Research in Community Development

First published in 1975, this book examines the Community Development Project (CDP), launched in 1969 as part of Britain's 'Poverty Programme'. The book covers CDP's diverse activities and implementation challenges. It will be of interest to administrators, social policy analysts, research workers, social or community workers.

Introduction Part 1: The national community development project 1. CDP: An official view 2. The history and early development of CDP 3. The context of the twelve project areas 4. Extracts from the inter-project report Part 2: Establishing local projects 5. Early stages in North Tyneside CDP 6. Expectations of a local project 7. The action-research relationship Part 3: Action in the local areas 8. Working with tenants: two case studies 9. The leasehold problem in Saltley 10. The Hillfields information centre: a case study 11. Welfare rights: an experimental approach 12. A note on community education 13. Curriculum development and the community approach 14. Social needs of an immigrant population 15. Job-getting and job-holding 16. Mobility deprivation Part 4: Action and research strategies 17. CDP and the urban programme 18. Community Development as a process of emergence 19. The flaw in the pluralist heaven - changing strategies in the Coventry CDP 20. Action-research: experimental social administration?