Learning Together: A Cultural Approach to Community Development

Title:

Learning Together: A Cultural Approach to Community Development

By:

Sally Habana-Hafner, Antonieta Bolomey, Sara DeTurk, and Janet Macfaden

Year of Publication:1998

Price:$15.00.

The Manual is a practical guide, that provides enough theory to give the reader a through understanding of the issues that arise when two cultures interact. These real-life issues are complex, interwined, and stubbornly resistant to simple solutions. Excercises, check-lists, and other inventories are useful but limiting. Armed with conceptual knowledge, practitioners can take simple suggestions and alter them to fit the unique conditions in which they find themselves.

The manual is organized around a number of issues rather than as a step-by-step guide. Part I, "A Cultural Framework," is the reader's introduction to the two concepts we consider necessary to any practitioner's work with other cultures: cultural awareness and the process of cross-cultural adaptation. Part II, "Community Development Processes," presents standard community development processes using the cultural lens introduced in Part I. Each chapter throughout the manual can be read independently or in conjunction with others.