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Ways We Live: Exploring Community (Series)
Finding Us and Them

Physically and mentally challenged people find community.

26 minutes
Color
Closed Captioned
Grade Level: 7-12, College, Adult
US Release Date: 1997
Copyright Date: 1997
ISBN (VHS): 1-56029-698-4

Directed by Annie O'Donoghue
Produced by Heather MacAndrew & David Springbett
Asterisk Productions

"These stories...are upbeat, encouraging - and replicable." Communities

Who is "us" and who is "them"? For the last twenty years, most communities have been learning how to reintegrate those who for many years were cast as outsiders and were excluded from our communities: the mentally ill and the physically challenged.

But by concentrating on what is right with people, rather than what is wrong, various projects are proving that both the individuals and the communities are enriched.

Other titles in the series are:

Community Animals - Leading thinkers explore community, work, time, values, and change.

Virtually Intentional - Finding community in the cloister, a commune, and in cyberspace.

Community by Design - Good design of houses and neighborhoods builds community.

Making Shelter - My Home with Others - Co-ops and co-housing provide new models for building community.

Reclaiming Community - Communities in Toronto and Oakland take back and revitalize public spaces.

Ageing with Community - The search for community and independence as we grow old.

The Boundaries of Change - Cities cope with changing demographics.

On the Road - RV owners leave their home towns and build their own communities.

Maps with Teeth - Bioregional mapping by locals communicates a sense of place and regional identity.

Study guide available

Reviews:
"You can't keep community down. Give people a little encouragement and a few tools, and they'll recreate the sense of community spirit in any available cracks and crannies in our otherwise alienated culture...These stories...are upbeat, encouraging - and replicable." Communities

"This is not an indulgent journey into nostalgia, but an exploration of the people we have become, touching on our diversity as well as our similarities." Orion Afield

"What (the producers) found was a growing belief and faith in the community as the cure for social ills like poverty, crime and estrangement from other people...It is precisely because WAYS WE LIVE is politically astute, without being partisan, that it is so compelling." Alex Strachan, Vancouver Sun

Related Subjects:
Community
Criminology
Disabilities
Mental Health
Psychology
Social Work
Sociology
Urban and Regional Planning

Related Titles:
Stop the World, We Want to Get On: Dramatic impact of civil rights organization for disabled people.

Letters from our Lives: Disabled women write open letters to the world about their plight.

Fat Chance: An obese man re-examines his self-image, and questions the biases in our weight-conscious culture.

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