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RESEARCH PRODUCT

Community Development and Social Participation

Gioacchino LavancoElisabetta Di GiovanniC Messina

subject

Settore M-PSI/07 - Psicologia DinamicaSettore M-DEA/01 - Discipline DemoetnoantropologicheCommunity Psychology Social Participation Empowerment Urban Context Neighborhoods Palermo

description

The paper presents the reslt of the action research project issued in Palermo (Southern Italy), in disadvantaged urban suburbs, methodologically based on Kurt Lewin's field theory - that is a three-step spiral process of planning which involves recoinnaissance; talking actions; and fact-finding about the results of the action - in order to develop the social participation and the social change. The principal aim of the project was the empowerment of participants, obtaining their collaboration through participation, giving them acquisition of knowledge for a real social change.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2011-01-01
http://hdl.handle.net/10447/60609