BASIC CONCEPTS OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

CEC31

BASIC CONCEPTS OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

COURSE BOOK

Centre for Vocational and Continuing Education The University of the South Pacific

Produced by the University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji, 2014.

First produced February 2014

Course Development team for semester 1, 2014

Course coordinator

Aminiasi Driu

Education technologist

Kerishma Seth

Electronic publisher

Ronald Philitoga

Cover design

Marketing, Development and Communications Office

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Contents

Course Overview.......................................................................................vi Unit 1: What is a Community?..............................................................1.1 Unit 2: Knowing your Community .......................................................2.1 Unit 3: What makes a Good Community? ...........................................3.1 Unit 4: Our Natural Environment ........................................................4.1

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Course Overview

Welcome to CEC31 Basic Concepts of Community Development. If you are thinking of making a career in Community Worker, then you have enrolled in the right course! CEC31 is a beginner's course in Community Development which is one of the liberal arts that will prepare you for a lifetime of change. This course will help you develop and appreciate the basic characteristics of community development, how social, economic, political and governance factors affect and impact community development, and how gender issues and climate change affect community development.

Course Learning Outcomes

After completing this course you should be able to: Describe how the resources and services available in your community enhance physical and cultural development. Analyse how the social, economic, cultural, political and governance factors affect community development. Apply the knowledge of environmental factors that affect community development. Evaluate gender issues in recognition of your own culture.

Course Structure

This course is made up of four units which you will study throughout the semester. Each unit may take one or two weeks to study depending on the length and the amount of reading it requires you to complete. The print course materials for CEC31 comprise one Course book and an Introduction and Assignments book.

Using your Course book

The concept map You will find this at the beginning of each unit. This gives an overview of all the topics/concepts and the relationship between them. Frequently refer to this while studying each unit to form a link between all the topics/concepts covered in the course.

Study organiser This is given as a table at the beginning of each unit. This will help you organise your study time with respect to the topics of study and the requirements of each to meet the objectives of that unit.

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Activities/Readings It is important that you complete the readings provided in each unit as they contain information essential to issues and concepts that you are studying in CEC31. Activities based on the readings will help you to consolidate your understanding and the notes you make will be useful when you prepare for your assignments. This is how an activity looks.

Activity 1.1

Reading This indicates that you are required to do a reading.

Reflections These are activities that allow you to reflect on your learning and relate the content of the course to your local context or to communicate with others in the course.

We hope you will enjoy your learning journey in this course. The CEC31 course team for 1/2014

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U1 What is a Community?

What is a Community?

Definitions of community development

? Identifying different communities

? What makes up a good community?

Unit 1 concept map

This map represents the core concepts that we'll be covering in this unit, and the relationships between them.

Unit 1: What is a Community?

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