Vibrant
Communities describe Winnipeg as a city with a long history of developing
innovative, local responses to poverty. This presentation, led by Jim Silver,
provides the opportunity to hear more about these responses, especially
inner-city educational approaches. Dr. Silver will describe the conditions in
Winnipeg’s inner city, the nature of the problems there and the strengths and
limitations of the community responses which have emerged. Attention will be
focused on how alternative forms of education can be made a more central part of
inner-city community development and anti-poverty strategies.
Jim Silver
is Chair of the Politics Department and Co-Director of the Urban and Inner-City
Studies program at the University of Winnipeg. He has written extensively about
inner-city issues. His publications include In Their Own Voices: Urban
Aboriginal Community Development; Public Housing Risks and Alternatives; The
Inner Cities of Saskatoon and Winnipeg: A New and Distinctive Form of
Development; and Step By Step, Turning Things Around in Winnipeg’s Inner City
(coauthor, Shauna MacKinnon).
As part of her welcome to and Installation
at the University of Regina, we have invited the new President, Vianne Timmons,
to attend the presentation and share for a few minutes her vision of the
University and its relationship with the community.
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