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Community Development Journal Advance Access originally published online on August 18, 2006
Community Development Journal 2006 41(4):528-531; doi:10.1093/cdj/bsl033
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Development Tracks: The Theory and Practice of Community Development

Gavin Rennie

Address for correspondence: School of Health and Community Studies, Unitec New Zealand, Private Bag 92025, Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand; email: grennie@unitec.ac.nz

Development Tracks: The Theory and Practice of Community Development
This book was published in 1982 and is one of few New Zealand texts devoted to this subject. Dunmore Press, Palmerston North.

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It was and is an important text, and looking back, it becomes clear how in many ways New Zealand was advanced in its thinking on Community Development. The language and the concepts were expressed differently from today, but that is a comment not a critique.

The editor, Ian Shirley, with a history as a community worker and later an academic had produced other writings on community development, but little of the standing of this work had been written either before or since on the theory and practice of community development in New Zealand. Twenty-three years on, this book is still read by students and teachers of community development. So, has it that stood the test of time or is there nothing to take its place?

The book does not . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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