Abstract
In mid-January in 2012, 32 people took their first collective steps as writers in a pilot project funded by the Safer Lancashire Board. The project emerged from a partnership between the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) International Centre for Arts and Asset-based Practice and Reading the World (RTW), a new community education programme. Four groups of six to twelve people volunteered: two from the substance misuse recovery community; one from the Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender (LGB&T) community; and a fourth composed of service users with physical and mental disabilities and carers. Each person volunteered to participate in the 16-week pilot, and in the 17th week in a staged performance of his or her work ‘A Night of Strong Coffee at the Blue Dahlia’ that filled the house at St. Peter’s Performing Arts Centre in Preston (UK). The performance was attended by 160 people, and a DVD of the evening was made by Keith Byers and Paul Seddon, who generously volunteered to film the event.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Banks, S. (2003). The Concept of Community Practice. In S. Banks, H. Butcher, P. Henderson & J. Robertson (Eds), Managing Community Practice: Principles, Policies and Programmes. Bristol: The Policy Press.
Banks, S. (2011). Re-gilding the Ghetto: Community Work and Community Development in 21st Century Britain. In M. Lavalette (Ed.) Radical Social Work Today: Social Work at the Crossroads. Bristol: The Policy Press.
Barone, T. & Eisner, E.W. (2012). Arts Based Research. London: Sage Publications.
Behar, J. (Ed.) (2012). A Night of Strong Coffee at the Blue Dahlia, Preston: UCLan Print.
Beresford, P. & Carr, S. (Eds) (2012). Social Care, Service Users and User Involvement. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishing.
Beresford, P. & Croft, S. (2004). Service users and practitioners reunited: The key component for social work reform. British Journal of Social Work, 34 , 53–68.
Blake, J. (2009). Sustainable communities and social work practice learning: Reflections on emergent, learning partnerships, The Journal of Practice Teaching and Learning, 9 , 93–114.
Dominelli, L. (2004). Social Work: Theory and Practice for a Changing Profession. Cambridge: Polity.
Foucault, M. (1980). Two Lectures. In C. Gordon (Ed.) Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writing, 1972–1977 , New York: Pantheon Books.
Freire, P. & Macedo, D. (1987) Reading the World and the Word: London: Routledge.
Henderson, P. (2007) Introduction. In H. Butcher, S. Banks, P. Henderson & J. Robertson, (Eds). Critical Community Practice, Bristol: The Policy Press.
Hoggett, P. Mayo, M. & Miller, C. (2009) The Dilemmas of Development Work: Ethical Challenges in Regeneration, Bristol: The Policy Press.
Jordan, J. (2010). Relational-Cultural Therapy, Washington DC: American Psychological Association.
Jordan, J.V., Walker, M. & Hartling, M. (Eds) (2004) The Complexity of Connection: Writings from the Stone Centre’s Jean Baker Miller Training Institute. New York: The Guilford Press.
Kretzmann, J. & McKnight, J. (1993) Building Communities from the Inside Out: A Path Toward Finding and Mobilizing a Community’s Assets. Skokie, IL: ACTA Publications.
Maslow, A.H. (1970). Motivation and Personality (3rd edition). New York: Longman.
Mathie, A. & Cunningham, G. (2008) From Clients to Citizens: Communities Changing the Course of their Own Development, Burton on Dunsmore: Practical Action Publishing.
McGregor, K. (2012) Social Workers Are Working Longer Hours, Still Bogged Down by Admin, Community Care. Available: http://www.communitycare.co.uk/Articles/26/09/2012/118547/Social-workers-areworking- longer-hours-still-bogged-down-by.htmt.
McKnight, J. & Block, P. (2012) The Abundant Community: Awakening the Power of Families and Neighbourhoods. San Francisco: Berrett- Koehler Publishers.
Miller, J.B. & Stiver, I.P. (1970) The Healing Connection: How Women Form Relationships in Therapy and in Life, Boston: Beacon Press.
Parton, N. (1999). Reconfiguring Child Welfare Practices: Risk, Advanced Liberalism and the Government of Freedom. In A. Chambon, A. Irving, & L. Epstein (Eds) Reading Foucault for Social Work, New York: Columbia University Press
Rapp, C.A. & Goscha, R.J. (2006). The Strengths Model Case: Case Management with People with Psychiatric Disabilities (2nd edition). New York: Oxford University Press.
Rapp, C.A. & Goscha, R.J. (2012). The Strengths Model: A Recovery Oriented Approach to Mental Health Services (3rd edition). New York: Oxford University Press.
Rogers, C. (1990). The Necessary and Sufficient Conditions of Therapeutic Personality Change. In H. Kirschenbaum & V. L. Henderson (Eds) The Carl Rogers Reader. London: Constable.
Saleebey, D. (2009). The Strengths Perspective in Social Work, Boston: Pearson Education.
Shor, I. (1992). Empowering Education: Critical Teaching for Social Change, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Copyright information
© 2015 Lynn Shorter
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Shorter, L. (2015). Reading the World: Developing Communities through Arts and Asset-Based Education. In: Brewer, G., Hogarth, R. (eds) Creative Education, Teaching and Learning. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137402141_12
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137402141_12
Published:
Publisher Name: Palgrave Macmillan, London
Print ISBN: 978-1-137-40213-4
Online ISBN: 978-1-137-40214-1
eBook Packages: Palgrave Education CollectionEducation (R0)