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Community Development Journal Advance Access published online on February 25, 2005
Community Development Journal, doi:10.1093/cdj/bsi037
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Four different approaches to community participation

Heather Fraser 1*

1 Faculty of Social Work, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada. This paper was first conceived while she was working as a Senior Lecturer at RMIT University, Melbourne, and doing a consultancy on community facilitation with the Glenelg Hopkins Catchment Management Authority, Hamilton, Victoria, Australia

* To whom correspondence should be addressed.
Heather Fraser, E-mail: heather.fraser{at}rmit.edu.au


  Abstract

This paper explores some of the politics of community work by examining four basic community participation approaches. Moving from the right of politics to the left, it overviews some of the different theoretical orientations, goals, processes and recruitment practices that are commonly used but not always recognized to constitute different forms of community participation. Offered primarily to ‘lay’ community members, students and beginning practitioners, the paper is intended to clarify some of the differences that emerge when participation projects are designed, and to stimulate discussion about community participation more generally.


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