ABSTRACT
We suggest that it is through building anti-oppressive practice into our everyday work that community development is able to effectively promote human rights and move towards social change. Specifically:
Anti-oppressive practice operationalises the worker’s commitment to the value of social justice
It both celebrates diversity and challenges behaviour and structural injustice
Prejudice and discrimination consciously and unconsciously oppress people
Anti-oppressive practice operates at the personal, cultural and structural levels
Anti-oppressive practice therefore, is also a further framework for the analysis of community development.
