Challenging the Professions by Robert Chambers )

Challenging the Professions by Robert Chambers )

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 and professional, requiring changes which are radical but quite surprisingly practicable: to question our values; to be self critically aware; to see simple as often optimal; to offset our spatial and seasonal biases; to help rural people do their own analyses; to stay in villages and learn from and with rural people; to test and use participatory approaches, methods and procedures; to encourage decentralization and diversity; to put people before things, and poor people first of all.

Rural Development: Putting the Last First (1983), Challanging the Professions (1993), and Whose Reality Counts? are among Robert Chambers' other works.

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ISBN 13	9781853391941
ISBN 10	1853391948
Title	Challenging the Professions
Author	Robert Chambers
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Practical Action Publishing
Year published	1993-12-15
Number of pages	160
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