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Thomson, Pat – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2005
Community involvement too often becomes a patronising, paternalistic process designed and delivered by professionals to control rather than enable and empower. What alternatives are there? Pat Thomson argues that within the international radical tradition we have some important answers and urges us to draw once again on the work of people like…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Social Change, Economic Change, Community Organizations