Abstract
Community Development is a complex and highly contested social practice and professional field. This practitioner research explores structural aspects of practice using a two-staged process of investigation with twenty-two experienced Australian community development practitioners. The research project explored how concepts within the literature are being used or re-theorised in everyday practice. Findings suggest that Structural Community Development is underpinned by a multi-faceted theory and a normative model for social change is presented. The model includes three frameworks: Structural Connecting, Structural Shaping and Structural Politicking, which together add to propositional knowledge about how structural disadvantage can be alleviated.