Community Engagement in a Changing Social Landscape reaches deep into the authors’ extensive experience as both observers and practitioners of community engagement. It is further enriched by insights drawn from the diverse experiences of professionals in the field.
Critical questions are honestly faced in a refreshing discourse that also highlights promising practices and approaches. These combined features provide both a thought-provoking retrospective and forward-looking commentary, which offer the reader a renewed understanding of community engagement and its exciting possibilities.
Professionals, students and volunteers working in the community should find in this book a very useful resource.
Table of Contents
Introduction — A Challenging Conversation
PART I — REFLECTIONS ON COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT TODAY
Chapter 1. — The Wider Context: Notable Trends and Issues
Chapter 2. — Revisiting Community Engagement
Chapter 3. — Towards Effective Engagement
Chapter 4. — Actuating Inclusion
Chapter 5. — The Role of Social Media
PART II — VIEWS FROM THE FIELD — WHAT PRACTITIONERS SAID
Chapter 6. — Setting Up the Conversations
Chapter 7. — Perspectives on Community Engagement
Chapter 8. — Potential Challenges in the Engagement Process
Chapter 9. — Reflecting on the Conversations
PART III – LOOKING AHEAD, MOVING FORWARD
Chapter 10. — Converging Themes and Pathways to Action
ADDENDUM (online only)
ABOUT WINSTON TINGLIN
Winston is a collaborator and storyteller.
Lead author Winston Tinglin has been an influence on the community sector for many years on a wide range of community engagement initiatives. He had roles of increasing responsibility in government, from policy analyst working on issues of immigration settlement to director of such and such. Winston was also for 10 years CEO of United Way of Hamilton and Burlington.
As Director of Community Engagement at Social Planning Toronto, he had a unique front-row view of community engagement projects in the Toronto area at a time of significant challenge and social change. In Community Engagement in a Changing Social Landscape, he shares many of the insights he gained from all of these invaluable experiences.
Community engagement and community development issues remain areas of great interest to Winston in his current consulting work.
ABOUT DONNA JOYETTE
“If you think you are too small to make a difference, you have never been in bed with a mosquito.“
Donna has over 30 years’ experience working with people impacted by poverty, violence, and difference in Canada, the U.S, and the Caribbean. Her insights on community engagement owe much to memorable encounters with people who graciously shared their experiences, aspirations and frustrations as they struggled to create better lives for their families and communities.
Her most profound learning has come from those relegated to positions furthest from society’s axis of power. Donna still strives to approach her work from a place of humility, remembering however, “If you think you are too small to make a difference, you have never been in bed with a mosquito.”
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