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Community Development Journal Advance Access originally published online on September 5, 2006
Community Development Journal 2006 41(4):400-406; doi:10.1093/cdj/bsl023
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Editorial

Community development practice in a bicultural context: Aotearoa New Zealand

Love Chile, Robyn Munford and Pat Shannon

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Community development as an academic discipline is concerned with the critical examination of how the forces of structural change, economic integration, institutional development and renewal impact on the capacity of individuals, groups and communities for self-determination. As an area of professional practice, community development intervenes through distributive and collective strategies to enhance social justice and economic equity between groups and communities locally, nationally and internationally. These are achieved through development strategies that seek to increase the skills and capabilities of people to act on their own behalf to transform their communities through participation in economic, sociopolitical and institutional developments. For community development intervention to be effective, transforming and sustainable, it must be participatory; the process must be collaborative with members of the client community defining what their needs and issues are, what they consider to be their well-being and what processes would work best within their context. The need for . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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