Browsing Community Development Journal Articles by Date Published
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Newmarket Arts Trust: A brief history (2004–2021)
(Unitec ePress, 2021-12-16)BACKGROUND The Newmarket Arts Trust (NAT) was formed in 2004. The original trustees were a mixture of people involved in the art world –– myself –– Sue Haigh (no relation to the author, local resident and active member ... -
Interview with Joan Lardner-Rivlin
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Community development in a fractured future
(Unitec ePress, 2020-12-17)This article explores the implications for community development in a near-term future context of some degree of ecological and societal collapse. The extreme likelihood of near-term future collapse is well known to most ... -
Research report : youth volunteering in Auckland, 2019
(Unitec ePress, 2020-12-17)PREFACE: This research was sponsored by Volunteering Auckland (VA). It is part of their wider research into volunteering by young people (13 to 18 years). Previous work carried out by VA showed that at the age of 18 years ... -
First-year student achievement, attendance, and demography at NorthTec’s Bachelor of Applied Social Work Programme : a quantitative inquiry
(Unitec ePress, 2020-12-17)This paper reports on a quantitative inquiry into student achievement, attendance and demography and their correlations in the first year of an undergraduate social work degree at NorthTec, Whangārei, New Zealand. Data on ... -
Pūrākau : our world is made of stories
(Unitec ePress, 2020-12-17)Ua ta‘u mai e Pālagi i a i tatou, o le lalolagi e faū i atoma [atoms], ae tatou Sāmoa e lē valelea-matou [tagata-Sāmoa] e te iloa o le lalolagi e tele tala. The white man has told us that the world is made of atoms, but ... -
The rise and fall and rise again of an environmental social enterprise. (With apologies to the makers of The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, one of my favourite British comedy series)
(Unitec ePress, 2020-02-24)Ki te kahore, he whakakitenga, ka ngaro te iwi Without foresight or vision the people will be lost In this paper I update earlier work on the case study in social enterprise in waste and recycling, using a community- ... -
Language and myths of poverty
(Unitec ePress, 2020-02-24)“Poverty strikes dead the very souls of all who come within sight, sound or smell of it.” G.B. Shaw, Major Barbara This paper explores the popular and political myths and language used about poverty and those who are ... -
Early welfare in Kurow, New Zealand
(Unitec ePress, 2020-02-24)This story is taken mainly from the booklet Four Shillings and Threepence (2008), produced by the Kurow Heritage & Information Centre. One of New Zealand’s first hydroelectric power stations was built on the Waitaki ... -
Change and development in Glen Eden 2017: report to Waitakere Ranges Local Board
(Unitec ePress, 2020-02-24)This paper has been expanded from the report previously published by ePress on 13.11.2017 [https://hdl.handle.net/10652/3981] This is a report on change and development issues facing Glen Eden. The Waitakere Ranges Local ... -
Rethinking the true impact of voluntourism in line with new community development standards
(Unitec ePress, 2018-12-19)The volunteer tourism market now represents over $2 billion annually but its impact is not yet adequately understood. Studies that have considered the impacts of voluntourism on host communities have had some significant ... -
The experiences of diverse-gender tertiary students : structural discrimination and microaggressions
(Unitec ePress, 2018-12-19)The following objectives framed the study: 1. To examine whether diverse-gender students experience discrimination related to their gender identities within tertiary settings in New Zealand and, if so, to identify the ... -
Placing youth in a volunteer framework
(Unitec ePress, 2018-12-19)Volunteering Auckland faces an encouraging challenge: it has more youth volunteers than it has organisations willing to place them. As a nonprofit that helps other nonprofits find and maximise a volunteer base, Volunteering ... -
Laudato si’ : establishing local approaches for global ecological conversion
(Unitec ePress, 2018-12-19)In 2017 the Aotearoa Community Development Association (ACDA) and the International Association for Community Development (IACD) held a conference, Sustainably yours: Community development and a sustainably just future, ... -
Poverty in New Zealand
(Unitec ePress, 2018-12-19)Poverty is an important socio-political issue in Aotearoa New Zealand. The Children’s Commissioner’s Child Poverty Monitor has established the following measures of poverty: material hardship (households that go without ... -
Engaging youth in community action research : a visual methods approach to HIV and AIDS awareness
(Unitec ePress, 2018-12-19)Young people are among the most affected and vulnerable groups in the HIV epidemic. Targeting young people in prevention strategies requires inclusive and participatory approaches. This paper discusses a film production ... -
Epistemology and community-worker education : questioning the knowledge we value / valuing the knowledge we question
(Unitec ePress, 2018-08-11)An appreciation and respect of how knowledge is created, classified and perpetuated is integral to community-work praxis. As community workers, ensuring that we have an epistemological foundation that guides our practice ... -
Towards shared international standards for community development practice
(Unitec ePress, 2018-08-11)This paper provides the basis for shared international standards for community development practice. It presents the key themes and areas common across community development practice wherever that practice might take place ... -
Intergenerational transmission of communication : a Tongan perspective
(Unitec ePress, 2018-08-11)Positive youth development requires good information to improve outcomes for service provision and delivery. This article discusses Tongan concepts that are central to effective intergenerational communication between ...
