Comparative approaches to program planning /
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Hoboken, N.J. :
John Wiley & Sons,
c2008.
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Table of Contents:
- Differences between lines and circles
- Lines and circles as planning metaphors
- A brief history of lines and circles
- Planning theory : both lines and circles
- Examples of planning approaches
- The "surety" of the line and the "tentativeness" of the circle
- A conceptual framework
- Programs : containers for idea implementation
- Programs and projects, services and interventions
- Programs and projects
- Services and interventions
- Programs in organizational context
- Program planning
- Mandates and initiatives
- Planning different types of programs
- Rational planning and prescriptive approaches
- Case : the mayor and the street educators
- History of rational planning and prescriptive approaches
- Dimensions of rational planning and prescriptive approaches
- The logic model
- Assessing needs
- Defining and analyzing problems
- Selecting intervention strategies
- Writing goals and objectives
- Program design and decision-making
- Accountability in a prescriptive approach
- Accountability challenges
- Information systems
- Budgeting
- Rational planning
- Mind-sets
- Skills
- Strengths and challenges of rational planning
- Interpretive planning and emergent approaches
- Case : the invisible people and the area agency on aging
- History of interpretive planning and emergent approaches
- Dimensions of interpretive planning and emergent approaches
- The logic of emergence
- Engagement
- Discovery
- Sense-making
- Unfolding
- Accountability in an emergent approach
- Accountability challenges
- Accountability options
- Interpretive planning
- Mind-sets
- Skills
- Strengths and challenges of interpretive planning
- Knowing when to use which planning approach
- Case : AIDS orphans and the pig intervention
- Similarities in planning approach challenges
- Gaining entry
- Becoming oriented
- Engaging in critical thinking
- Making ethical decisions
- Comparing program planning approaches
- Comparing dimensions
- Examining accountability
- Thinking about mind-sets and skills
- Decision issues for approach selection
- Program planning in diverse cultural contexts
- Culture and context
- Defining culture
- Elements in culture development
- Cultural competence
- Skills of the culturally competent
- Challenges to culturally competent human service programming
- Understanding empiricism
- Recognizing realism and interpretivism
- Responding to accountability demands
- Cultural competence and program planning
- Planning with sensitivity to difference -Planning with sensitivity to inclusion
- Planning with sensitivity to context
- Planning across multiple organizational settings
- Issues when practicing internationally.