Challenging the Professions: Frontiers for Rural Development

by Robert Chambers

Book Overview

Challenging the Professions questions the dominant approaches of professions, disciplines and bureaucracies concerned with rural development. The theme is that 'we', who call ourselves professionals, are much of the problem, and to do better requires reversals of much that we regard as normal. The challenge is to upend our thinking, to turn values on their heads, to invent and adopt new methods, and to behave differently. The frontiers are personal...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1853391948
• ISBN13: 9781853391941
• Release Date: December 1993
• Publisher: Intermediate Technology Publications
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 8.9"