--The book provides teachers a much more detailed source of scholarship and of teaching and learning case studies and resources than was possible in the International Standards report. It is clearly laid out according to the eight practice themes.
--builds upon the International Standards for Community Development Practice (https://www.iacdglobal.org/international-standards-accreditation/standards/ ) , published by the International Association for Community Development (IACD) in 2018
--contain case studies illustrating what this means in practice working across a wide range of communities, from a range of countries from around the world