Community Work and Adult Education in Staveley, North-East Derbyshire, 1969–1972

Retrospective Consideration, Selective Re-presentation, and Reflective Critique

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Author:
Colin Kirkwood
In 1969, Colin Kirkwood took on the job of Area Principal for Adult Education in north-east Derbyshire. There he formed a remarkable creative partnership with Rob Hunter, a brilliant young Community Worker. This is the story of their collaboration and dialogue with the people of Staveley, a small coal, steel and chemicals town in the north-midlands of England. Together they created the local newspaper, Staveley Now, the Staveley Disabled Group, the Staveley Festival and much else. Community Work and Adult Education in Staveley, North-East Derbyshire celebrates this important collaboration by drawing on letters, interviews, poems, issues of the local newspaper and reports and articles written at the time. The research and critical assessment of their work together in the early 1970s can be linked with that of Paulo Freire in Latin America and throughout the world.
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Front Matter
Copyright page
Dedication
Dedication
Foreword: Community Development: Backstory and Prospects
Foreword: Staveley: There and Then, Here and Now
Acknowledgements
List of Acronyms
About the Author
Author’s Note
Introduction
Chapter 1 Stance and Methodology
Chapter 2 The Social, Economic, Political and Institutional Context
Chapter 3 The Young Volunteer Force Foundation Report
Chapter 4 The Outsiders
Chapter 5 The Initiatives and Activities
Chapter 6 After-Effects and Retrospects
Chapter 7 Analysis of Keywords and Themes
Afterword
Responses to Sarah Banks, Linden West and Rob Hunter
Back Matter
Bibliography
By the Same Author
Index
Colin Kirkwood studied at the Universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh. He was Area Principal for Adult Education in North-East Derbyshire, and Tutor Organiser and District Secretary of the Workers Educational Association in South-East Scotland. He taught Community Education and was Head of Counselling Studies in the University of Edinburgh. Later he worked as Psychotherapist with people suffering from severe eating disorders.
See a write up of the book in The Derbyshire Times
Foreword
 Sarah Banks
Foreword: Staveley: There and Then, Here and Now
 Linden West
Acknowledgements
List of Acronyms
About the Author
Introduction

1 Stance and Methodology

2 The Social, Economic, Political and Institutional Context

3 The Young Volunteer Force Foundation Report
  1 Staveley

4 The Outsiders
  1 The List of Polarities Should Be Shown Covering a Whole Facing Page at This Point 19   2 Commentary on Hitler Spring
5 The Initiatives and Activities
  1 The First Six Months
  2 The Survey of the Disabled
  3 The Co-op Hall
  4 The Idea of a Local Newspaper
  5 The First Meeting
  6 The First Issue
  7 Staveley Now, No. 1
  8 Mastin Moor Complaint
  9 The Poolsbrook Page
  10 Working-class Poets
  11 Letting the People Know
  13 Overview of the First Issue
  14 The Autumn Programme
  15 The Second Issue of Staveley Now
  16 This Is Your Life
  17 Resurrection
  18 Do It Yourself, Says the Duke
  19 Poolsbrook Reply
  20 Edifying Scatological Diversion
  21 Mastin Moor Upsurge Blocked
  22 The Workings of a Local Labour Party
  23 Staveley Disabled Group
  24 Staveley Festival Group
  25 Abilities or Disabilities
  26 The Hard Men
  27 Hell’s Angels Talk
  28 More Providing and Informing
  29 Staveley Now, No. 4
  30 Social Comment Photography
  31 Staveley Festival
  32 Conflicts in SDG
  33 The Drive Towards Centralization
  34 Mastin Moor Mothers
  35 Staveley Now, No. 6   36 Education Rules OK
  37 Strike

6 After-Effects and Retrospects

7 Analysis of Keywords and Themes
  1 Thematic Fan One
  2 Thematic Fan Two
  3 Thematic Fan Three
  4 Thematic Fan Four
  5 Thematic Fan Five

Afterword
  1 Personal Reflections on the Work in Staveley
  2 A Revival in Community Work in England?
  3 Community Work: How can we Learn to do it Better?
  4 Integrating the Intrapersonal and Interpersonal: Emotional Literacy in Community Work
  5 Convergence
  6 Author’s note
Responses to Sarah Banks, Linden West and Rob Hunter
Bibliography
Index
Community workers, community organisers, community activists, adult educators, undergraduates, post-graduates, academics, practitioners, political policy makers, social scientists, poets, counsellors, psychotherapists, psychiatrists, ministers, priests, religious people of all traditions.
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Publisher:
Brill
Language:
English
Pages:
xviii, 134 pp.
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004412316

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