Today, I have been consumed with reading on community-centered practice. Why, you ask? My motivation largely stems out of our discussions about holistic youthwork - empowering youth to reclaim their lives by reclaiming their families by reclaiming their communities.
How does a youthworker aid in this development. Well, unfortunately there is no easy way! It requires commitment - physically, socially, emotionally, spiritually, and... intellectually.
As a result, I have been doing my own grunt work - trying to disseminate relevant articles by top folk who are wrestling with such issues. Here's some of my first gleanings. I will add to these as they develop.
Note the relationship of social capital and work in disadvantaged neighborhoods. This is critical because it represents the tools of agency.
Steve
1. Community building: Coming of age (Kingsley, McNeeley & Gibson)
2. Social capital and community governance (Bowles)
3. The case against social capital (Durlauf)
4. What is social capital and why is it important to public policy? (Lang & Hornburg)
5. Social capital and the revitalization of New York City's distressed inner-city housing (Seagert & Winkel)
6. Social capital and neighborhood stability: An empircal investigation (Temkin & Rohe)
7. Credit and social capital: The community development potential of US microenterprise programs (Servon)
8. Brown kids in white suburbs: Housing mobility and the many faces of social capital (de Souza Briggs)
9. Rethinking the social role of public housing (Spence)
10. Neighborhoods and Adolescent Development (Boardman & Saint Onge)
11. Experimental analysis of neighborhood effects on disadvantaged youth (Kling & Liebman)
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