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Social and Community Development Practice makes a persuasive case for employing a social development approach to community development practice at local and village levels. Towards this end, the book offers a conceptual clarity of social and community development (SCD) by adding new dimensions. It also shows the significance of social policy education for social and community development workers and the need for expanding community development practice from local levels to international levels.
The author argues that the social work profession itself needs to quickly reorganize and strengthen. It needs to consider alternative modes of preparing social workers and community organizers who can reach out at local levels. The profession also needs to develop indigenous ethical standards for SCD practice. The author's deep reflections reveal the dire need to refocus on SCD practice to address major issues such as poverty and inequality plaguing vast populations around the world.
A Social Development Approach
A Social Development Approach
Introduction
Although social development is not new in social work literature, its study and application by social work and welfare students and educators appear to have been somewhat limited in India and the Asian region generally. When I was studying social work at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), I often saw a book entitled Some Aspects of Social Development (authored by Professor M.S. Gore, 1973) displayed at the publications department and issues of the journal Social Development Issues at the TISS library, but I hardly remember studying social development in my social work course. Why such a fascinating and comprehensive subject has not been taught in social work schools is an important question that keeps bothering me. ...
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