bokomslag Leadership and Organization for Community Prevention and Intervention in Venezuela
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Leadership and Organization for Community Prevention and Intervention in Venezuela

Maritza Montero

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  • 116 sidor
  • 2004
Improve decision-making skills for community organizations and their leadersfrom a participatory perspective! This book will show you how (and why) participatory communities come into being and what they can accomplish, regardless of the current political climate. It also examines leadershipand the skills community leaders need to develop to be most effective. Youll find ethnographic and psychosocial perspectives on the relationship between families and community organizations, leadership interventions designed to facilitate more effective decision-making, and moreall from organizations making a very real difference in a country that has had a strong community work tradition since the 1960s. This book presents an essential overview of the dynamics of urban low-income communities in Venezuela. With examples drawn from organizations designed to help a population that has been neglected by its government, Leadership and Organization for Community Prevention and Intervention in Venezuela is a unique source of inspiration and practical know-how. The intensive training workshops and restructuring projects documented in this book have proven to be positive and effective tools, strengthening Venezuelan communities despite the political unrest that has plagued the country. In Leadership and Organization for Community Prevention and Intervention in Venezuela, youll learn how community organizations are: providing shelter for people displaced by natural disasters providing essential services when the government cantor wont establishing community leadership rolesand helping community leaders to work more effectively transforming the perspectives of community leadersfrom narcissistic to altruistic and much more! With this book, youll examine the interaction between community organization and leadershipusing the liberating, dialogic, reflective, and conscientization approach developed by Latin American community psychology. The books approach is grounded and realistic. It highlights the outcomes of the authors participatory research and action in urban Venezuelan communities, focusing on organization, participation, modes of leadership, decision-making and meta-decision-making, the moral developmentand moral dilemmasof community leaders, and the interrelationship between family systems and community in Venezuela.
  • Författare: Maritza Montero
  • Format: Inbunden
  • ISBN: 9780789012487
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 116
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2004-07-01
  • Förlag: Routledge