Developing a discourse of the postmodern community development professional |
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Authors: | Karen McArdle Sue Mansfield |
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Affiliation: | 1. School of Education , University of Aberdeen , Aberdeen , UK;2. Department of Community Education , University of Dundee , Dundee , UK |
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Abstract: | This article seeks to promote the generation of a discourse of the postmodern community work professional. A shared discourse will lead, we propose to shared capital. We argue that there is a tension between the modern and postmodern for those of us engaged in the profession of community learning and development (CL&D). We need to value reflexivity which allows the community worker to make sense of multiple discourses and to make the transition from modernism to postmodernism. We need in the CL&D profession to recognise that Marxist principles that we espoused in the 1980s may be enhanced by a new theoretical base that still values change. |
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Keywords: | postmodernism modernism community development social capital emancipation reflexivity |
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