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What additional principles of practice are argued for by the group of Canadian researchers mentioned in the text?

  • Community, leadership, empowerment, and engagement
  • Negotiation, representation, education, and resistance (correct)
  • Participation, inclusion, equality, and justice
  • Communication, collaboration, advocacy, and intervention
  • What are Canadian approaches to practice more apt to consider organizing based on?

  • Cultural heritage and family structure
  • Social location and identity (correct)
  • Economic status and educational background
  • Political influence and religious beliefs
  • What type of relations do the communities usually have to deal with according to the text?

  • Cooperative relations with local authorities
  • Difficult relations with people outside the community (correct)
  • Conflicting relations within the community
  • Harmonious relations with neighboring communities
  • What is always based on an awareness of ongoing and pervasive processes of marginalization according to the text?

    <p>Practice</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which concept is considered central to community practice in Canadian approaches?

    <p>Social location</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Who are keenly aware that it is difficult to separate elements of practice when such elements are blended or work in conjunction with each other?

    <p>Canadian authors and community workers</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What do Canadian authors and community workers consider difficult to separate when blended or working in conjunction with each other?

    <p>Elements of practice</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What do Canadian researchers argue for the addition of in terms of practice concepts?

    <p>Negotiation, representation, education, and resistance</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Who looked at practices in marginalized communities in Canada?

    <p>George et al.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is depicted in Figure 3.1 mentioned in the text?

    <p>Traditional models of Community change.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What influences the way we relate to the world and interpret responses from our actions?

    <p>Social experiences of oppression based on race, gender, sexual orientation, and class</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is key to community practice according to the text?

    <p>Understanding that much daily and structural exclusion happens socially</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are individuals often using as the starting point for analysis and action?

    <p>Their own cultural frameworks</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What makes dominant norms invisible according to the text?

    <p>Dominant discourses of whiteness, heterosexism, classism, and racism</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does exposure to a group's belief system and rituals do to an individual's perception?

    <p>Shapes it more firmly</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What influences a person's experiences to varying degrees according to the text?

    <p>Different communities such as ethnic, religious, professional, and geographic</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is considered as key to community practice based on the text?

    <p>Understanding the influence of social experiences of oppression</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does a change agent need to be able to recognize and build on in the community?

    <p>Opportunities for resources</p> Signup and view all the answers

    According to the passage, what does a change agent invite the community to stay stuck in if they see only threats and weaknesses?

    <p>Dependency and powerlessness</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does believing in the resources found in people mean according to the passage?

    <p>Defining their own issues and making their own decisions</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a key contributor to a community’s success according to the passage?

    <p>Belief in its abilities</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does understanding theoretical principles that guide action lead to according to the passage?

    <p>Becoming a more effective change agent</p> Signup and view all the answers

    How does the passage suggest individuals or communities move forward?

    <p>By relying on their abilities</p> Signup and view all the answers

    According to the passage, what is important for understanding to become meaningful?

    <p>Demonstration through action</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is emphasized as the catalyst for change according to the passage?

    <p>Application of principles in practical ways</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is crucial for a practitioner’s use of theory according to the passage?

    <p>'Belief in power, abilities, and rights'</p> Signup and view all the answers

    According to the passage, what does a belief in power, abilities, and rights lead to?

    <p>Empowerment and confidence</p> Signup and view all the answers

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