Table of Contents

Contributors
Preface
Introduction
Gabrielle Meagher and Dorothy Bottrell

Supporting change for disadvantaged communities
1. The reality of locational social disadvantage: what could help to reduce its ill-effects?Tony Vinson
2. From authoritarian to democratic schooling: schooling that empowers young people
Ebeny Wood
3. Change and resistance to change: community development in a rural caste community in South India
Frank Tesoriero
4. Preliminary findings from the National Youth Cultures of Eating Study: gender, social class and ethnic differences in childhood obesity
Jennifer O’Dea

Supporting change for children in communities
5. Max and the knight: how a therapeutic story provided a connection point for child, family, school, human service agencies and communityLeigh Burrows
6. Examining the range of strategies mothers use to cope when caring for a child with an intellectual disability
David Evans and Iva Strnadová

Supporting professionals for community change
7. Communities@work: engaging Gen Y in community work studies through blended distributed deliveryKerry Russo
8. ‘The theories make you pay more attention to how things happen’: the impact of theory on the practice of pre-service teachers in their role as student mentors Lesley Scanlon
9. ‘Caution children crossing ahead’: child protection education with pre-service teachers using a strengths approach
Angela Fenton
10. Examining teacher responses to a professional learning program addressing learning disabilities
Kay Munyard, Lyndall Sullivan, Jason Skues and Everarda Cunningham

Research collaboration for change
11. Making interpretive knowledge focal: developing an interdisciplinary dialogue on research into integrated early childhood services
Sue Nichols and Lana Zannettino
12. Beyond the sandstone: research partnerships between the community welfare sector and universitiesMargot Rawsthorne
13. Research for practice in small human service organisations: doing and disseminating small-scale research
Suzanne Egan

Promotional Information

This book explores the connections between education and social work; universities and community organisations; and research and practice.

About the Author

Dorothy Bottrell is a senior lecturer in social pedagogy at Victoria University (Melbourne).

Gabrielle Meagher is a professor of social policy at Macquarie University.