Enticing the Learning - by John Staley
with a chapter by Sue Mayo
This book is about training for people who work professionally with communities, as in development work, social action, community organization, awareness-raising and voluntary aid programmes.
The approach and methodology are person-centred, participatory and experience-based. The starting point is the participants themselves, individually and as a group in training together. The focus is on how they – as practitioners, leaders and managers – can work more effectively with others, whether in the training group or in organizations and communities.
The book is based on many years of training practice. More than 100 exercises, group events, conceptual inputs and methods are presented in detail, with timings and practicalities; and more than 50 handouts – guidelines, case studies, questionnaires etc – are included. The carefully-written text tells the trainer what to do at every stage, and why and how, in order to ‘entice the learning’.
The material is drawn from the well-known Development Studies Course which was conducted at Selly Oak Colleges, and has been tried and tested in NGOs throughout the world. The text is enlivened by the comments, insights – and the humour – of men and women from all over the world who have taken part in the training.
This is an invaluable resource for the established trainer and the would-be trainer.
482 pages, including photographs, line drawings, handouts, glossary and index
Keywords COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT / training of trainers / training
exercises / training manuals / training materials / community workers
/development education / participatory methodology / participatory
trainingISBN 0 704426 072 and 9780704426078 Price £18.00
Enticing the Learning: Trainers in Development can be ordered from bookshops.
For other enquiries please contact The Institute of Applied Social Studies,
University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK.
Telephone: +44 (0) 121 414 5719. E-mail: w.banner@bham.ac.ukPlease contact John Staley or Colin Brydon directly if you have any difficulties in obtaining the book.
E-mail: js@cmail.co.uk
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