Contemporary Discourses on IE & C Theory & Practice

''Contemporary Discourses on IE&C Theory and Practice'' is a much needed resource for a field which is rarely explored. It combines a comprehensive introduction to current issues, theories and special topics in IE&C with examples of IE&C program development and challenges to their implementation. While this book is designed for professionals, organisations and postgraduate students with no significant field experience; it also includes advanced topics for development practitioners, public health experts, researchers, and health care providers with an interest in the field. As Jane Seeley puts it the theoretical and practical literature on IE&C is vast. This makes it possible to generate better understanding of the role of information, education and communications in diverse contexts. This innovative information-sharing approach is useful in contemporary knowledge management for social change and development; by so doing we hope to understand how information, education and communication shape and affect group dynamics and behaviour change within society and also in vast contested areas of national development.