Reflective Practices in Community Development: a Grounded Analysis
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Reflective Practices in Community Development: a Grounded Analysis Juan M. Moreno 1 & Kaliat Ammu Sanyal 1 & Firooz Firoozmand 1 & Pauline Rutter 1 & Marie K. Harder 1 # Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2019
Abstract Reflective practices (RPs) are recognized as fundamental for the conception, development, implementation and improvement of community-based development in international development. Despite acknowledgement that RPs are needed, the ways in which reflection can take place within Community Development (CD) contexts remains under-examined. In this study, the authors conduct a grounded thematic analysis of a values-based elicitation and articulation approach with three community organizations in order to: (i) identify specific elements in the processes of reflection; (ii) explore how identified themes relate to existing concepts within RPs literature, and any useful insights to CD contexts; (iii) explore the ways in which valuesbased elicitation approaches facilitate RPs. UK organisations are used for convenience, but the study is for transferable learning to international development. In their analysis, the authors identify four main themes: Reasoning (justification, articulation, recall), Active listening (nuanced expansion, replication), Collective articulation (semantic cooperation, semantic negotiations, semantic disagreements), and Tension (confusion, resistance). These highlight the multi-dimensional, non-linear nature of RPs, the importance of productive tensions, and the need for the facilitators enabling processes of RPs to develop skills such as active listening, working with tensions and deep semantic negotiations. Findings indicate this approach can open up new lines of investigation of mechanisms underlying RPs which could assist in planning reliably for them. Challenges and opportunities for further research are outlined. Keywords Reflective practices . Processes . Values-based approaches . Facilitator . Community development . Community organisations Abbreviations CD CO
Community Development Community Organizations
* Marie K. Harder [email protected]
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School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics, Cockcroft Building, University of Brighton, Lewes Road, Brighton, East Sussex BN2 4GJ, England
Systemic Practice and Action Research
CO-A_Pt#1, etc. ELC ESDinds ID LGBTQI+ PAR RPts RPs Stg1, 2, 3 UoB WB WV
Civil Society Organization A, participant number 1 Experiential Learning Cycle Education for Sustainable Development indicators International Development Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Queer and Intersex community Participatory Action Research Research participants (within the WV project) Reflective Practices Stage 1 (Elicitation), Stage2 (trigger-statements), Stage 3 (mapping and clustering); the stages of the WV workshop University of Brighton World Bank WeValue project
Introduction Recent changes in International Development (ID) policy have shown a trend towards more participatory approaches through community-driven projects and the decentral
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