Community involvement in services for children, families

ISBN-13: 9783639160390 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 252 str.

Marco Antonio Delgado Fuentes

Opis

Why do people decide to get involved in services foryoung children, families and communities? How andunder what circumstances can this involvement becomea meaningful experience? Those are the questions thatunderpinned this research, which is based on two casestudies. The first case study explores thefascinating story of ordinary people creating andinnovating services and influencing national andmultinational policies through the pure strength oftheir values and beliefs. Following Manuel Castells,social movements have different identities and thisis a documented case of a project identity in thefield of education, where innovation and new ideasemerged 20 years before Englands 1997 policy eventually turned in this direction.In contrast to this first case study, the secondshows how publicly-funded services for young childrencan indeed improve peoples lives but can alsoinhibit the forces of innovation, identification andnetworking. The book is written for policymakers,researchers and students from the fields ofeducation, health and social services who are lookingto work with children and their families.

O autorze

Marco Antonio Delgado Fuentes holds a PhD in Education from York
University, UK. He is a researcher and lecturer at the
Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City. He has worked for the
organisation ACUDE, a Mexican NGO specialising in educational
research. He has carried out a variety of research on early
years and preschool education.