MAIS 603: Community Development (Rev. C6) 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-Books


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


Reading Assignment
Dancin, Dancin, and Tracey. “Social Entrepreneurship: A Critique and Future Directions.” Organization Science 22, no. 5 (2011): 1203-1213.
Bibliography/Supplementary Materials

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


Reading Assignment
Baker, Janelle M. “Research as Reciprocity: Northern Cree Community-Based and Community-Engaged Research on Wild Food Contamination in Alberta’s Oil Sands Region .” Engaged Scholar Journal: Community-Engaged Research, Teaching, and Learning 2, no. 1 (2016):109–123
Bibliography/Supplementary Materials
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)
—Viewing Assignment
Barack Obama. Lace up your shoes and do some organizing (YouTube) (2017)
Pam Warhurst. How we can eat our landscapes (YouTube) (2012)
—Bibliography/Supplementary Materials
Week 5: community development (cd)
—Reading Assignment
—Bibliography/Supplementary Materials
Association for Community Health Improvement.
UNESCO.
City of Edmonton. (2006). The Quarters Downtown: Urban Design Plan. (peruse pages 9–36).
Weeks 5 and 6: Social Planning
—Bibliography/Supplementary Materials
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)
—Reading Assignment
Ontario. Economic Development Case Study Handbook (2011)
Gibson, Katherine, Jenny Cameron, Stephen Healy, and Joanne McNeill (2019). “Beyond Business as Usual: A 21st Century Culture of Manufacturing in Australia .” Western Sydney University; University of Newcastle Australia.
The Canadian CED Network. “The Inclusive Economy: Stories of CED in Manitoba ” (YouTube) (2018). The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, and Rebel Sky Media
—Bibliography/Supplementary Materials
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?


Viewing Assignment
Derek Sivers. “How to Start a Movement.” Ted Talk
—Bibliography/Supplementary Materials
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]
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

Assignment 3


Lengelle, R., & Meijers, F. (2019). Poetic reflexivity and the birth of career writing: An autoethnographic love story . In K. Maree & C. Wilby (Eds.), Innovating career counselling theory, research, and practice. (pp. 539–555). Springer.