The Making of an Empowering Profession

Influencing Change: CLD in Scotland is a companion volume to the earlier “The Making of an Empowering Profession”.  Which was a unique collection  – a “Reader” – of material that outlined and illustrated how the practices that we now describe as Community Learning and Development have been created, analysed, argued over and changed since the mid-1970s.

“The Making of an Empowering Profession” was first published in 1996, followed by editions in 1997 and 2002. Edited by Charlie McConnell, the reader was published by the then national agency for Community Education / Community Learning and Development: Community Learning Scotland.