1st Edition
Action-Research in Community Development
Introduction
Part 1: The national community development project
1. CDP: An official view
Home Office, 1971
2. The history and early development of CDP
Marjorie Mayo
3. The context of the twelve project areas
Joan Payne and Kleri Smith
4. Extracts from the inter-project report
Part 2: Establishing local projects
5. Early stages in North Tyneside CDP
David Corkey
6. Expectations of a local project
Alex Mackay
7. The action-research relationship
Ray Lees
Part 3: Action in the local areas
8. Working with tenants: two case studies
John Foster
9. The leasehold problem in Saltley
Geoff Green
10. The Hillfields information centre: a case study
Nick Bond
11. Welfare rights: an experimental approach
Jonathan Bradshaw
12. A note on community education
Eric Midwinter
13. Curriculum development and the community approach
Ray Lees
14. Social needs of an immigrant population
Morag McGrath
15. Job-getting and job-holding
Glyncorrwg CDP
16. Mobility deprivation
Glyncorrwg CDP
Part 4: Action and research strategies
17. CDP and the urban programme
Richard Batley and John Edwards
18. Community Development as a process of emergence
Samuel H. Bailie
19. The flaw in the pluralist heaven – changing strategies in the Coventry CDP
John Benington
20. Action-research: experimental social administration?
George Smith
Biography
Ray Lees
George Smith
Review of the first publication:
‘It is essential reading, not only for anyone interested in the problems of organizing community development within statutory agencies, but for those who wish to understand the decline in the Home Office’s enthusiasm for CDP.’
— Community Development Journal, Volume 11, Issue 1
