List of Tables, Figures and Boxes
List of Abbreviations
Foreword David Cox
Preface
I: SOCIAL AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT (SCD) PRACTICE
A Social Development Approach
Local-level Community Development
Values and Principles
Dynamics of Community Development Practice
II: EDUCATION FOR SOCIAL POLICY AND INTERNATIONAL SCD
Social Policy Education for SCD Workers
International SCD Curricula for Training Social Workers
III: DEVELOPING THE SOCIAL WORK PROFESSION FOR SCD PRACTICE
Adapting the Social Work Profession: Some Issues and Prospects
SCD Education through Distance Mode: An Unexplored Potential
Social Work’s Code of Ethics and Ethics-based SCD Practice
IV: THE FUTURE OF SCD
Social Work and SCD Practice: Reflections and Foreflections
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
Index
Manohar Pawar, PhD, is professor of social work at the School of
Humanities and Social Sciences, Charles Sturt University (NSW,
Australia) and is also the President of the Asia-Pacific branch of
the International Consortium for Social Development. Earlier, he
has taught at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, and La
Trobe University, Melbourne. He has more than 30 years of
experience in social work education, research and practice in
Australia and India.
Professor Pawar has received a number of awards, including the
ICSSR Doctoral Fellowship located at the Centre for the Study of
Developing Societies, New Delhi (1986–1988); the Citation Award for
Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning (2008, from the
Australian Learning and Teaching Council); and Quality of Life
Award (2001, from the Association of Commonwealth
Universities).
His current areas of interest include international social work,
development and social policy practice, social consequences of
cli¬mate change and water, social work education, virtues and
social work practice, informal care and ageing, NGOs and community
devel¬opment. He is the lead chief investigator of research funded
by the Australian Research Council’s Discovery Project that focuses
on virtues and social work practice.
His publications include Social Work Practice Methods: Reflections
on Thinking, Doing and Being (2015); Water and Social Policy
(2014); International Social Work: Issues, Strategies and Programs
(2013); The SAGE Handbook of International Social Work (2012);
Social Development: Critical Themes and Perspectives (2010); and
Community Development in Asia and the Pacific (2010).
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.
*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.
*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.
*Dean Emeritus, George Warren Brown School of Social Work
Washington University in St. Louis*
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