R SOC355 Lecture 29: April 1 - Community Development

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Rural Sociology
• Course: R SOC355
• Professor: John Parkins

Document Summary

Human-scale development (development as if humans mattered) appropriate technology: sustainable, of an appropriate scale for the community (cid:862) mall is beautiful(cid:863) (cid:894)1973(cid:895) Practical action an ngo that formed in response to his work: focus on providing intermediate technologies that are suitable and sustainable for communities at that time. Floating gardens to help with food insecurity. Great depression in brazil shaped his concern for the poor. Critical pedagogy: a teaching approach which attempts to help students question and challenge the dominant discourses, students demonstrate a critical consciousness. Aware of their own situation, experience, oppression. Conscientization: learning which focuses on perceiving and exposing political and social inequalities, ways of thinking about structures. Founder of the industrial areas foundation: promotes social change within inner-city chicago (industrial revolution era, better conditions for workers in factories, now chapters in other parts of the world. His ideas changed the way american democracy worked. Tools to develop collective action: agency, movement to confront structures.