Community Practice and Social Development Themes and Implications

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Julie L. Drolet ◽  
Sarah Todd
Keyword(s):  
Social Development ◽  
Community Practice

Community organizing for post-disaster social development

2007 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 321-333 ◽  
Author(s):  
Loretta Pyles
Keyword(s):  
Community Development ◽  
Social Development ◽  
Hurricane Katrina ◽  
New Orleans ◽  
Community Organizing ◽  
Disaster Recovery ◽  
Community Practice ◽  
Community Revitalization ◽  
Travail Social ◽  
Post Disaster

English Community revitalization is a neglected element in disaster recovery. The literature on disaster and community practice is reviewed and some community development and organizing endeavors in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina are described. Social work's lack of emphasis on community organizing is a barrier to social development in post-disaster situations. French La revitalisation communautaire est un facteur né gligé dans la relè ve de catastrophe. L'auteur passe en revue la documentation sur les pratiques communautaires en situations de catastrophe et dé crit quelques initiatives de dé veloppement et d'organisation communautaires à la Nouvelle-Orlé ans aprè s le passage de l'ouragan Katerina. L'auteur conclut que le manque d'insistance du travail social sur l'organisation communautaire est un frein au dé veloppement social dans des situations post-catastrophe. Spanish Un elemento descuidado en el trabajo de recuperació n despué s de un desastre es la revitalizació n comunitaria. Hago una revisió n de lo publicado sobre desastres y práctica comunitaria, y describo algunos trabajos comunitarios de desarrollo y organizació n en Nueva Orleáns despué s del huracán Katrina. Concluyo que el no dar más importancia al trabajo comunitario es un impedimento al desarrollo social despué s de un desastre.

Global Community Practice for the Global Agenda

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manohar Pawar ◽  
Marie Weil
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Social Development ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Community Practice ◽  
Multiple Levels ◽  
Global Agenda ◽  
Development Practice

This article presents an integrated perspective and framework for global practice towards achieving the Global Agenda. First, it presents the origin and current understanding of the Global Agenda for social work. Second, it illustrates the utility of the term “global practice” as a progressive, comprehensive, and future-oriented term that encompasses social work and social, economic, and sustainable development at multiple levels: local, national, regional, international, multinational, and global. Third, it discusses ways of moving forward on the Global Agenda at multiple levels through an integrated perspectives framework consisting of global, ecological, human rights, and social development perspectives to guide practice. Finally, it concludes that global practice and the Global Agenda need to be translated into local level social work and development practice and local level agendas, making a case for social work and sustainable social development leadership and practice at grassroots and national levels.

Interrelationships of factors of social development are more complex than Life History Theory predicts

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Boris Kotchoubey
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Social Development ◽  
Life History Theory ◽  
Strong Correlations ◽  
Behavioral Features

Abstract Life History Theory (LHT) predicts a monotonous relationship between affluence and the rate of innovations and strong correlations within a cluster of behavioral features. Although both predictions can be true in specific cases, they are incorrect in general. Therefore, the author's explanations may be right, but they do not prove LHT and cannot be generalized to other apparently similar processes.

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