MAIS 603: Community Development Report a Broken Link

Community development is the process of supporting and building communities through purposive action. Its practitioners apply theories and concepts that are related to the structures and participants involved. Building on analytical materials and skills, this course examines the nature of community in its variety of forms; issues and conditions that have an impact on communities; forces at work within communities, as well as those operating from outside; variations in community practice (economic and social development, social planning) and geographical setting; and applications in professional and academic fields as varied as education, literacy, economic development, health, social, and human services. Perspectives on the community that arise from policy setting, cross cultural relations, personal and global involvements, and practice strategies will also be examined as will specific concerns of Indigenous communities.

E-Texts


Campfens, Hubert, ed. Community Development around the World: Practice, Theory, Research, Training. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999.

Part I – Weeks 1 and 2: Defining Concepts, Examining Foundational Ideas


General
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Part II – Week 3: The Four Sets of Practices of Community Development


Biddle, William W., and Loureide J. Biddle. The Community Development Process: The Rediscovery of Local Initiative. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1965.
Ross, Murray G., and Ben W. Lappin. Community Organization: Theory, Principles and Practice. New York: Harper and Row, 1967.

Part III – Weeks 4–6: Community Organization (CO), community development (cd), Social Planning (SP), Community Economic Development (CED)


Weeks 4 and 5: Community Organization (CO)
Week 5: community development (cd)
Association for Community Health Improvement.
UNESCO.
Weeks 5 and 6: Social Planning
Friedmann, John. “Part 1: The Terrain of Planning Theory.” Planning in the Public Domain: From Knowledge to Action. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1987.
American Planning Association
Social Planning and Research Council of BC.
Social Planning Network of Ontario.
Social Planning Toronto.
Week 6: Community Economic Development (CED)
Andriotis, Konstantinos. “Community Groups’ Perceptions of and Preferences for Tourism Development: Evidence from Crete.” Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research 29, no. 1 (2005): 67–90.
Bendavid-Val, Avrom. Regional and Local Economic Analysis for Practitioners. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1991.
Blakely, J., and Ted K. Bradshaw. Planning Local Economic Development. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2002.
The Canadian CED Network.
Galaway, Burt, and Joe Hudson, eds. Community Economic Development: Perspectives on Research and Policy. Toronto: Thompson Publishing, 1994.
Grameen Bank.
Lejano, Raul D., and Anne Taufen Wessells. “Community and Economic Development: Seeking Common Ground in Discourse and Practice.” Urban Studies 43, no. 9 (August 2006):1469–1489.
Perry, S., and M. Lewis. Reinventing the Local Economy: 10 Canadian Initiatives. Vernon, BC: Centre for Community Enterprise, 1994.
Shaffer, Ron, Steve Deller, and Dave Marcouiller. “Rethinking Community Economic Development.” Economic Development Quarterly 20 (2006): 59–74.

Part IV – Weeks 7 and 8: How Do Community Development Practices Become Useful to People?


Friedman, Warren. “Grassroots and Persistence: The Chicago Alliance for Neighborhood Safety.” National Institute of Justice Journal (August 1996): 8–12.
McKnight, John. “Community and Its Counterfeits.” Ideas. CBC Radio. [Transcript]. 3, 10, 17 January 1994.
Moyers, Bill. “The Adventures of a Radical Hillbilly: An Interview with Myles Horton.” Appalachian Journal 9, no. 4 (Summer 1982): 248–285. [Video]

Shanti Thakur, dir. Circles. National Film Board of Canada, 1997. 58 minutes.

Tester, Frank J. “Reflections on Tin Wis: Environmentalism and the Evolution of Citizen Participation in Canada.” Alternatives 19, no. 1 (1992): 34–41.
Applications of CD