Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Dedication -- Foreword: Community Development: Backstory and Prospects / Sarah Banks -- Foreword: Staveley: There and Then, Here and Now / Linden West -- Acknowledgements -- List of Acronyms -- About the Author -- Author’s Note -- Introduction -- Stance and Methodology -- The Social, Economic, Political and Institutional Context -- The Young Volunteer Force Foundation Report -- The Outsiders -- The Initiatives and Activities -- After-Effects and Retrospects -- Analysis of Keywords and Themes -- Afterword / Rob Hunter -- Responses to Sarah Banks, Linden West and Rob Hunter -- Back Matter -- Bibliography -- By the Same Author -- Index.

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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