Active Citizenship and Community Learning (Empowering Youth and Community)

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Enabling Active Citizenship and Community Learning explores the role of the worker in facilitating participation, learning, and active engagement within communities. The book is a timely addition to general community work texts, focusing on recent UK government initiatives to strengthen citizen and community engagement at a community and local authority level. It provides guidance, frameworks, and activities to help in work with community members, either as different types of volunteers, or as part of self-help groups, and it sets UK community work as an educational process. It raises dilemmas that can arise from possible interventions and it gives strategies for reflective, effective practice.

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Dr. Carol Packham is the Course Leader of the BA in Youth and Community Work at Manchester Metropolitan University. She is the Director of the Community Audit and Evaluation Centre at MMU, and is co-ordinator of the NW Regional Take Part/Active Learning for Active Citizenship (ALAC) Network. Her work involves the encouragement of community based courses, with progression to MMU. She is an active community volunteer in her local inner city areas where she is the treasurer of a voluntary young peoples project and vice chair of a community forum. Her Doctor of Education (2006) drew on the ALAC work to explore the role for professional Youth and Community Workers in relation to volunteers.