Social and Community Development Practice

Pawar, Manohar S.

Social and Community Development Practice [electronic resource]. - New Delhi : SAGE Publications, 2014. - 1 online resource (317 p.)

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Cover; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Section I: Social and Community Development (SCD) Practice; 1 -- A Social Development Approach; 2 -- Local-level Community Development; 3 -- Values and Principles; 4 -- Dynamics of Community Development Practice; Section II: Education for Social Policy and International SCD; 5 -- Social Policy Education for SCD Workers; 6 -- International SCD Curricula for Training Social Workers; Section III: Developing the Social Work Profession for SCD Practice; 7 -- Adapting the Social Work Profession: Some Issues and Prospects 8 -- SCD Education through Distance Mode: An Unexplored Potential9 -- Social Work's Code of Ethics and Ethics-based SCD Practice; Section IV : The Future of SCD; 10 -- Social Work and SCD Practice: Reflections and Foreflections; Acknowledgements; Bibliography; Index; About the Author

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 wor.

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Community development.
Social planning.
Social service.
Community development.
Social planning.
Social service.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services


Electronic books.

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