Beyond the victim : the politics and ethics of empowering Cairo's street children /
Kamal Fahmi.
- Cairo ; New York : American University in Cairo Press, c2007.
- x, 202 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), map ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-200) and index.
Part 1 - Theoretical and Methodological Framework -- Participatory Action Research -- Historical Background -- Values and Ideology in PAR Literature -- Ontology, Epistemology, and Methodology -- The Limitations of Participatory Action Research -- Summary of the Literature Review -- Reflective Commentary -- Street Work -- Historical Overview -- The Parameters of Critical Street Work 64 Underpinnings -- Concluding Commentary -- Part 2 - The Story -- The Beginning -- The Context -- How It Started -- Street Ethnography -- Reflective Commentary -- Concluding Commentary 105 Conceptual Framework 107 Who is a Street Child? -- Theoretical Considerations -- Implications for Practice -- Continuation of the Story -- Opening the Drop-in Center -- Reflective Commentary -- Implications of the Open-door Policy -- Impacts and Concluding Commentary -- Impacts -- Methodological Considerations -- Unresolved Issues -- Appendix 1 - Profiles of Street Children -- Appendix 2 - Profiles of Street Localities.
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Participant observation. Street children--Egypt--Cairo. Street youth--Egypt--Cairo. Social work with youth--Egypt--Cairo.