The document discusses key concepts and definitions related to community development. It provides 33 statements from scholars on topics like the characteristics of freedom and community, definitions of development, community development as a process, and community development promoting collective action and empowerment. The document seeks to outline the high-level concepts and understandings around community development from different perspectives.
The document discusses key concepts and definitions related to community development. It provides 33 statements from scholars on topics like the characteristics of freedom and community, definitions of development, community development as a process, and community development promoting collective action and empowerment. The document seeks to outline the high-level concepts and understandings around community development from different perspectives.
The document discusses key concepts and definitions related to community development. It provides 33 statements from scholars on topics like the characteristics of freedom and community, definitions of development, community development as a process, and community development promoting collective action and empowerment. The document seeks to outline the high-level concepts and understandings around community development from different perspectives.
The document discusses key concepts and definitions related to community development. It provides 33 statements from scholars on topics like the characteristics of freedom and community, definitions of development, community development as a process, and community development promoting collective action and empowerment. The document seeks to outline the high-level concepts and understandings around community development from different perspectives.
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TASK 2: INTRODUCTION TO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT (FEM3331)
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No. Scholar / Statement
1 Freedom is the characteristic of development
2 Ethnic homogeneity id the characteristic of community
3 Community development is planned by the partcipants to serve
goals they progressively choose 4 to allow the human development / individual personality
5 A community is a territorially bounded social system or set of
interlocking integrated functional subsystems 6 interactng through relationships or bonds of marriage, blood, friendship & neighborhood 7 Progress, development and modernisaton is about the same- transformaton of peasant society to industrial society 8 Engaging in stable social interaction according to shared expectatons and ongoing commitments to specific norms, values, attitudes, aspiraton, world-views, traditon, or pattern of culture 9 Community have politcal autonomy
10 Development is process that took place in stages within a social
system 11 Development as a transformaton of society, a movement from traditonal relatons, traditonal ways of thinking, traditonal methods of producton, to more modern ways 12 Community development is develops the confidence and will to work at these needs or objectives, takes acton in respect to them, and in doing so extends and develops co-operatve and collaboratve attitudes and practices in the community 13 Community development is promotng collectve or collective acton to bring the community 14 Community development is human beings can become more competent to live with and gain some control over local aspects of a frustratng and changing world 15 Development is producing more ‘life sustaining’ necessites such as food, shelter, and health care and broadening their distributon; raising standards of living and individual self esteem; expanding economic and social choice and reducing fear 16 Community development is a practce-based profession and an academic discipline that promotes partcipative democracy, sustainable development, rights, economic opportunity, equity and social justce through the organisation, education and empowerment of the people within their communites, whether these be of locality, identty or interest, in urban and rural setting 17 Development should, then, be viewed as a multi-dimensional process involving major changes in social structures 18 Development in the new perspectve has been referred to as an overall process of transforming men and societies leading to a social order in which every human being can achieve moral and material well being 19 development is about outcomes, that is, development occurs with the reducton and elimination of poverty, inequality, and unemployment within a growing economy 20 Development is instead equipped with knowledge which enable them to have control over their lives 21 Community development is the process by which the effort of the people themselves are united with those of governmental authorites to improve the economic, social, and cultural conditons of community, 22 Community development as the conscious use of community process by the partcipants themselves in order, through common acton, to achieve self chosen goal 23 Community development is seen as a social process
24 Community development is a process by which a community
identfies its needs or objectives, orders (or ranks) these needs or objectves 25 Development is a popular atttudes and a national conditon of life from unsatisfactory to satisfactory 26 Community development is finds the resources (internal and/or external) to deal with the needs or objectves 27 Community development is a strategy that emphasizes self- development, collaboratve support, integraton and capacity for solving problems 28 Development is a transformation of a peasant society to industrial society 29 characterized development as reduce mortality, increase life spans, and increase productvity 30 Community development to integrate thses communtes into the life of the nation, and to enable them to contribute fully to natonal progress 31 Community development as a movement that is designed to increase the quality of life of the entre community through actve partcipaton and if possible on the initatve of community itself, if not, can use techniques to boost the actve and responsive partcipaton in the movement. 32 Community as the complete social life in a locality
33 Community development as a program, process, method and