The Community Worker and the Employer

2021 ◽  
pp. 197-211
Author(s):  
Phil Doran
Keyword(s):  
Community Worker

Aboriginal Studies : A Beginning at Mt Druitt High

1988 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 3-12
Author(s):  
Stephen Kurtz
Keyword(s):  
School Community ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Community Worker ◽  
Full Support ◽  
Aboriginal Students ◽  
Elective Course

In 1988 Mt Druitt High will begin an elective course in Aboriginal Studies. The process for development for this course has taken two years and was on the basis that this course could only get off the ground if it had the full support and involvement of both the Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal students and community members.In 1986 the 32 Aboriginal students enrolled at the school formed a club and called themselves the Dharruk Koories (Mt Druitt is in the suburb of Dharruk, which was named after the Aboriginal tribe that originally inhabited the area). The group met weekly with me and the school community worker and quickly formed a list of aims.

Keeping the show on the road: a reflective dialogue between a community worker and a funder

2019 ◽  
pp. 137-152
Author(s):  
Lin Bender ◽  
Japhet Makongo
Keyword(s):  
Community Development ◽  
Community Empowerment ◽  
Community Worker ◽  
The Road ◽  
Reflective Dialogue ◽  
Community Ownership ◽  
On The Road

This chapter presents a dialogue between Japhet Makongo, a community development worker based in Tanzania, and Lin Bender, CEO of the philanthropic organisation, the Helen Macpherson Smith Trust in Victoria, Australia. Lin and Japhet have each worked on both ‘sides’ of the funding relationship and through their discussion they offer insights into the day-to-day realities of managing funding relationships. They analyse the risks and challenges involved, but also the possibilities for effective funding for community empowerment. Their discussion of funding speaks to perennially important themes within community development such as power, agency, community ownership, process versus outcome, and the meaning of ‘success’.

The balancing act: community agency leadership in multi-ethnic/multiracial communities

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Morris Beckford
Keyword(s):  
White Privilege ◽  
Leadership Position ◽  
Community Agency ◽  
Asian Origin ◽  
Black African ◽  
Community Worker

This chapter presents the author's reflections on the question of whiteness and white privilege from the perspective of one who has achieved a substantial leadership position, acknowledged most of all by his co-ethnics (broadly people of Black African and Afro-Caribbean origins), but less so by people of Asian origin and, seemingly, hardly if at all by his white peers. One of the major indicators of racism is the collection of stereotypes used to demean and undermine minorities. The author also offers significant insights for working in multiracial communities, notably that such communities, being heterogeneous, have within them a range of differing and sometimes contradictory sets of values, norms, and practices: being a community worker requires knowing when to challenge patriarchal practices.

The (IN)Visibility of Gender in the New Regulation

2005 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 197-226 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vicki Paskalia
Keyword(s):  
Family Members ◽  
Child Rearing ◽  
Gender Perspective ◽  
Community Worker ◽  
First Category ◽  
Marriage Dissolution ◽  
The Law

This article looks at the new co-ordination Regulation 883/04 from a gender perspective. The focus is on the provisions of the Regulation concerning its personal scope and some of its fundamental principles. The article considers whether these provisions function satisfactorily with regard to workers (often female) who have interrupted work because of child-rearing; as well as with regard to former spouses, who are covered by the Regulation in their capacity as family members of a Community worker, after the termination of their marriage. The article argues that, although the Reg. 883/03 provides some improvement with regard to the first category, namely workers interrupting work because of child-rearing, a great deal remains to be done. It also notes that no attention at all has been paid to the issue of marriage dissolution, qnd that this makes the situation of former spouses very uncertain and vulnerable. Finally, the article argues that the development of a gender dimension within the framework of the law of co-ordination is necessary in order to adjust the Regulation to new situations and for the satisfactory protection of a considerable number of persons, mainly women, who find themselves in situations such as those above.

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