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Community Practice Skills: Local to Global Perspectives resources

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14 ■ COMMUNITY PRACTICE: PURPOSE AND KNOWLEDGE BASE The relationships among community/organizational issues, goals, objectives, inputs, outcome evaluation/documentation, and reflection, with an emphasis on the value framework of sustainable development. Community Vision—the dream of how we want the community to look in the future, including community economic development, environmental conservation, and social equity and justice did we accomplish? WhatGoal or Goals—WhatReflection— What did we learn will be accomplished from these actions? Objectives—Specific ways we want changes to happen Evaluation of Impact— Indicators and Inputs—What we have and can invest in methods to activities toward our objectives measure change in community Evaluation of social, Outcomes—Indicators and Outputs—Activities, economic, and methods to measure the projects, and programs we environmental conditions over plan and carry out to reachresults of what we did or did time social, economic, and workshops, meetings,our objectives (e.g.,not do toward changing environmental conditions in events, training, actions, our community recruitment, testifying at Short Term: how people’s public hearings, holding knowledge, awareness, press conferences, etc.) attitudes, skills, aspirations, and motivations changed Medium Term: how people’s decisions, conditions, actions, advocacy efforts, and policies changed FIGURE 1.2 Continuous Sustainable Community Development Model adapted from R. Arnold, R., Burke, B., James, C., Martin, D., and Thomas, B. (1991), Educating for a Change (Toronto, Ontario: Between the Lines/Doris Marshall Institute for Education and Action); Paul Castelloe and Dorothy N. Gamble (2005), “Participatory Methods in Community Practice: Popu- lar Education and Participatory Rural Appraisal,” in The Handbook of Community Practice, ed. Marie Weil (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications); Paolo Freire (1974), Education for Critical Conscious- ness (New York: Continuum). Source: Dorothy N. Gamble, Marie Weil, N. Kiefer, and Resourceful Community Members (2005), Mea sur ing a Movement: Evaluating Outcomes in Community Sustainable Development (Chapel Hill, NC: The Resourceful Communities Program of The Conservation Fund), p. 5. Used with permission from The Conservation Fund. Environment and Development 1987). Although traditional wisdom suggested that market- based economic development was the single most important way to decrease poverty and increase opportunities, such narrowly focused efforts of- ten came at the cost of the depletion of fi nite resources, lasting environmental damage, extreme gaps between wealthy and poor populations, and rapid extinc- tion of plant and animal species (Daly and Cobb 1989; Escobar 1995; Korten 2001; Prigoff 2000). The movement promoting sustainable development

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