Community Development Studies

Should we make drug addicted persons attend more social studies classes?

Aren’t they missing something about how their addiction affects their communities, their states, our country, the world? Isn’t it education of these people about the results of their addictions that is at the root of their poor dysfunctional development?
Do you think it would help for them to try and keep a clear head about how to handle mechnical things like legislation?
or maybe computer programming?

You are missing two points. First, our society is based on individual rights, not what benefits society. If the reverse was true, the government could force us all to exercice at 6am with the military. Freedom means that people can choose to be fat, drunk and stupid. (Sorry Dean Wormer, you were wrong.)

Second, even if you don’t support individual rights, sending people to class about the affects of getting high is stupid. They didn’t care about the other classes they were in, so they won’t care about these either. Besides, I know many functioning ‘addicts’ who are judges, doctors, executives, teachers, and other ‘respectable’ members of society. How are you going to identify them?

Asset Building & Community Development $48.00 Employing a broad definition of community development, this book shows how asset building can help increase the capacity of residents to improve their quality of life. It provides students and practitioners with theoretical and practical guidance on how to mobilize community capital (physical, human, social, financial, environmental, political, and cultural) to effect positive change. Authors Gary…

Introduction to Community Development: Theory, Practice, and Service-Learning $44.00 This text provides students of community and economic development with a theoretical and practical introduction to the field. Bringing together leading scholars, it provides both a conceptual background and contemporary approaches, with a progression from theory to practice. Included are case studies and supportive material to develop community service-learning activities….

The Community Development Reader $53.32 The Community Development Reader is the first comprehensive reader in the past thirty years that brings together practice, theory and critique concerning communities as sites of social change. With chapters written by some of the leading scholars and practitioners in the field, the book presents a diverse set of perspectives on community development. These selections inform the reader about establ…

Paths of Hope: Livelihoods in Three Caribbean Communities of Costa Rica (Caminos de Esperanza: Medios de Vida en Tres Comunidades del Caribe Costarricense) $19.95 …

Battle of Ideas: My Brain Made Me Do It …

Si No Llueve (If It Doesn’t Rain) $12.95 …

Community Places & Helpers Set of 16 $15.95 Grades K-2. Visit people and places in your community with these 16 full-color photo/activity cards. Measure 8 1/2″ x 11″. Set of 16….

On The Mark OTM820 Exploring My School Community $18.58 Students will understand the different people, the physical features in their community, and how people in their community interact. A community may be a town, city or village that is found in a particular part of Canada and use maps and globes to locate buildings & places. Two reproducible booklets included. 25 activities, 112 pages….

Exploring My School & Community Gr 1 $12.87 Students will understand the different people, the physical features in their community, and how people in their community interact. A community may be a town, city or village that is found in a particular part of Canada and use maps and globes to locate buildings & places. Two reproducible booklets included. 25 activities, 112 pages….

On The Mark Press OTM808 What is a Community Gr. 2-4 $14.09 Involve your students in the study of their community so they may be more aware of its cultural background and its physical surroundings. Activities focus on living in a community, recreation, community buildings, types of work and people, kinds of communities, maintaining the community, transportation and community history. 79 activities, 94 pages. Companion Products: Community Helpers, OTM-611….