The Wupperthal Stories
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Many years ago a book called The Development Practitioner’s Handbook was published (The Development Practitioner’s Handbook, Allan Kaplan, Pluto Press, 1996). This book took the novel approach of interspersing chapters of text and theory with very short stories about a rural community worker and the community in which he was working. Despite the appreciation with which the book as a whole was met, many readers maintained that they were most touched and educated by the stories themselves. Such stories are a different way of appreciating a social situation. We have therefore decided to include these stories here, one following the other, without the book’s accompanying text. Perhaps they still appeal.