Social and Community Development Practice
Format:Hardback
Publisher:SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd
Published:30th Nov '14
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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.
In this important book, Manohar Pawar makes a major contribution to understanding social and community development practice. He ranges widely over topics such as the tasks practitioners undertake, the skills and training they need and the ethics and values they should embrace. The book is an extremely valuable addition to the literature and is an essential reading for anyone working in the field today.
-- James Midgley * University of California, Berkeley *The book brings to life the concept of social development with razor-sharp clarity and examines the potential for improving ‘well-being’ at various levels of human existence in communities. An indispensable resource for guiding the course of social work education in India and South Asia as well.
-- Vijayan K. Pillai, PhD * and Editor, Social Development Issues *Professor Pawar has written an exceedingly useful book for students, practitioners and teachers of social work and social change in the Asia-Pacific region. Comprehensive as well as current in its coverage and analysis of significant concepts, values, issues, processes, principles and strategies of community and social development, this publication promises to fill a serious void in the professional literature in an increasingly important field.
-- Shanti K. Khinduka, PhD * Dean Emeritus, George Warren Brown School of Social Work Washington University in St. LouISBN: 9788132118459
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 500g
316 pages