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Community Development Journal Advance Access originally published online on November 19, 2007
Community Development Journal 2008 43(1):1-4; doi:10.1093/cdj/bsm050
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Editorial

Editorial

Chris Miller

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In an applied field of study and action such as community development the process of theorization and the role of critical writing and publishing are crucial. Journals such as the Community Development Journal (CDJ), along with the countless but invaluable magazines, newsletters, reports and working papers, simultaneously provide opportunities for critical reflection and theory building on practice and the evaluation of theorize in practice. Those who write within and about community development are almost inevitably engaged emotionally, intellectually or economically with the subject as academics, researchers, policy makers and analysts, practitioners, managers and even occasionally beneficiaries. Thus, community development can be a practice that to some extent reflects who we are and what we value. At its best critical writing challenges personal assumptions and behaviours and provides insights that extend our conceptual understanding of the field in which we are . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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