Introduction to Community Development

• • Introductory ideas about community development
  • The history of community development
  • Case studies in community development
  • Martin Buber and dialogue
  • The critical traditions
  • Freire and development
  • Post-colonial traditions
  • Foucault and the post-structural traditions

No eligibility requirements

Special requirements

No special requirements

This subject introduces students to community development ideas and practice, with particular reference to its application in the Australian context. It will examine the emergence of the concept of community development and its meanings across diverse areas of practice.  A key focus of the unit will be challenges posed by matching theory and practice in community development.  Towards this end students will be expected to become familiar with, and aware of the limitations of key methodologies in community development.

Please Note: All students studying at Murdoch University will need to complete the compulsory unit, Murdoch Academic Passport (MAP100), which only takes 2-3 hours to complete online. Find out more: http://goto.murdoch.edu.au/MurdochAcademicPassport.

• Online discussion page (10%)
• Non-Invigilated Exam (40%)
• Journal (50%)