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• W30557925 abstract "This thesis contributes to the theory and practice of community development (CD) by raising the importance of the constant critical self-reflection of the practitioner, and making recommendations for how to do that both personally and collaboratively. Much current theory on the role of the CD worker, especially theories on Participatory Action Research (PAR), focuses on their role as a facilitator of participative processes within a community to enhance the capacity of the community. The practical reality that many CD workers like myself will have encountered, are the times when PAR is not enough to enhance community capacity. Then a practitioner has to decide when to work with or for a community to achieve this: knowing the paradox and contradictions that make this a complex task. My contribution to the theory of CD is the critical role of practitioner self-reflection and my contribution to the practice of CD are recommendations for how a practitioner can achieve that. I have derived my contribution through a retrospective analysis of four CD projects in Stanthorpe, South East Queensland. The aim of these projects was to build the social, economic, environmental and cultural capacity and sustainability of this rural community in order to increase its resilience to the impacts of drought, bushfires and rural isolation, most specifically the drought of 2002. As an embedded CD worker within the community, I used four Action Research (AR) cycles as the methodology for addressing the community problems. The four projects and AR cycles were: AR cycle 1, the Drought Response Project; AR cycle 2, The Stanthorpe Resilience Project; AR Cycle 3, The GraniteNet Project; AR Cycle 4, The Community Garden Project. The critical reflection stages of these cycles raised the issue of when to work with or for the community. The reflections on each cycle informed my action in the next cycle, to which I then applied a critical analysis/reflection to the learnings from these cycles, to develop recommendations for improving the practice of CD. The most important of these being the need for the CD practitioner to constantly critically reflect on their own practice to determine when best to use: PAR as a participatory approach to working with people, advocacy as an approach to working for people, and dialogue as an approach to working and learning together. To help a CD worker to do this in practice, I make the following recommendations. Recommendation 1: The CD practitioner needs to constantly critically reflect on and evaluate their own perspectives and actions within all of the CD processes, both personally and collaboratively. Recommendation 2: Understand complex systems by mapping the community as a way to identify the key social, economic, cultural, political and environmental components and the relationships between them. Recommendation 3: Adopt methodological pluralism as a necessary and equally pragmatic approach to using CD to improve a complex system; i.e. with methods of participation, advocacy and dialogue. Recommendation 4: Identify and engage relevant stakeholders by understanding and working with their interests, and building local ownership and control of projects. Recommendation 5: Facilitate participation and partnership through dialogical processes to facilitate community empowerment, decision-making, cogenerative learning and capacity building. It is essential that practitioners reflect on these recommendations as they apply to them in their own practice, and if more appropriate, modify and adapt them to their own context and in line with their own experiences. This necessitates a passion for leading change, as CD practitioners need to not only facilitate change processes, but also design and evaluate them. Critically reflecting on these processes can be challenging and often more so in participatory fora. Despite the hard work, the rewards are substantial.n" @default.
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• W30557925 title "The role of critical self-reflection in the practice of community development workers: a retrospective analysis of four community development projects in a rural community in Australia suffering social, economic and environmental hardships" @default.
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