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Co-operative Internet Learning combines together historical,feminist, and psychoanalytic theory, as well as some minimal Buddhist logic, into a co-operative process to enable the reader to develop an Internet co-op school.
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About Small Groups: The Process of Change
Small Groups: The Process of Change is about organizing small groups on a variety of levels, from consciousness-raising to action groups to collectives and beyond. Readers will find models to choose from, no matter what type of task they’re organizing around.

Taking the rhetoric of empowerment seriously, it turns out, people find that change is more difficult than most want to admit. Author William Coughlan carefully shows that it’s important that we do not skip the beginnings, middles,and ends of social change. At the same time, he explains how to decentralize the leadership roles of the small group into organizers, leaders, and facilitators, so that from the beginning the small group is grounded. Then he decentralizes the remaining roles of the small group and promotes role development. In addition, Small Groups discusses self-reliance, self-sufficiency,and self-determination as necessary outcomes of this process and uses both Eastern and Western paradigms of dealing with change.



What readers are saying:

It seemed to me a very useful book, full of practical information which is informed by a larger vision of a cooperative and truly democratic society....
- Howard Zinn, American historian and social critic

The hands-on samples of problems and solutions are more than useful. They are almost a blueprint of how to get things started and done....
- Carole A. Z. Root, Attorney

What William Coughlan offers in this book is clear guidance that makes working in groups a positive experience for everyone concerned....
- Catherine Nicosia, Community Bookshelf Manager

In a time when "change" is a concept so much on everyone's lips, it is especially good to be able to read Small Groups: The Process of Change....
- Alice L. Savage, PhD, Dean of Academic Affairs, Manchester Community College

In a refreshing way, William blends practical advice, philosophical understandings, and spiritual enthusiasm, giving the reader the feeling that as we bend to the task of working well in a small group, we are accompanied by William Coughlan as a friend and guide....
- Adam Frost, Co-founder and Member of the Boston Neighborhood Food Co-op

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