• ISBN13: 9788126939886
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: Sociology and Anthropology
• Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
• Publisher Imprint: Atlantic
• Publication Date: June 18, 2024
• Pages: 316
• Original Price: INR 1195.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 490 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Sociology / General

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.

Manohar Pawar, BA, MASW, PhD, is Professor of Social Work at the School of Social Work and Arts, Charles Sturt University (NSW, Australia). He is the President of the International Consortium for Social Development, Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Community and Social Development (Q1), published by SAGE and Editor of Springer Series in Social Development. Earlier, he taught at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai and La Trobe University, Melbourne. He has over 40 years of experience in social work education, research and practice in Australia and India and received many honours and awards.

• List of Tables, Figures and Boxes ix
• List of Abbreviations xi
• Foreword by David Cox xv
• Preface xix

• Section I

• Social and Community Development (SCD) Practice
• 1. A Social Development Approach 3
• 2. Local-level Community Development 34
• 3. Values and Principles 64
• 4. Dynamics of Community Development Practice 93

• Section II

• Education for Social Policy and International SCD
• 5. Social Policy Education for SCD Workers 129
• 6. International SCD Curricula for Training Social Workers 154

• Section III

• Developing the Social Work Profession for SCD Practice
• 7. Adapting the Social Work Profession: Some Issues and
• Prospects 175
• 8. SCD Education through Distance Mode: An Unexplored
• Potential 203
• 9. Social Work’s Code of Ethics and Ethics-based SCD
• Practice 223
• viii Social and Community Development Practice

• Section IV

• The Future of SCD
• 10. Social Work and SCD Practice: Reflections and
• Foreflections 245
• Acknowledgements 263
• Bibliography 264
• Index 286
• About the Author 294