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Contributors
Preface
Introduction
Gabrielle Meagher and Dorothy Bottrell
Supporting change for disadvantaged communities
1. The reality of locational social disadvantage: what could help to reduce its ill-effects?
Tony Vinson
2. From authoritarian to democratic schooling – schooling that empowers young people
Ebeny Wood
3. Change and resistance to change – community development in a rural caste community in South India
Frank Tesoriero
4. Preliminary findings from the National Youth Cultures of Eating Study – gender, social class and ethnic differences in childhood obesity
Jennifer O’Dea
Supporting change for children in communities
5. Max and the knight: how a therapeutic story provided a connection point for child, family, school, human service agencies and community
Leigh Burrows
6. Examining the range of strategies mothers use to cope when caring for a child with an intellectual disability.
David Evans and Iva Strnadová
Supporting professionals for community change
7. Communities@work – engaging Gen Y in community work studies through blended distributed delivery
Kerry Russo
8. ‘The theories make you pay more attention to how things happen’: The impact of theory on the practice of pre-service teachers in their role as student mentors
Lesley Scanlon
9. ‘Caution Children Crossing Ahead’: Child protection education with pre-service teachers using a strengths approach
Angela Fenton
10. Examining teacher responses to a professional learning program addressing learning disabilities
Kay Munyard, Lyndall Sullivan, Jason Skues and Everarda Cunningham
Research collaboration for change
11. Making interpretive knowledge focal: developing an inter-disciplinary dialogue on research into integrated early childhood services
Sue Nichols and Lana Zannettino
12. Beyond the sandstone: research partnerships between the community welfare sector and universities
Margot Rawsthorne
13. Research for practice in small human service organisations: doing and disseminating small-scale research
Suzanne Egan
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