Approaches to community development: a symposium introductory to problems and methods of village welfare in underdeveloped areas

By:

Ruopp, Phillips (ed.)

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: The Hague; W.Van Hoeve; 1953Description: 352pSubject(s):

Sociology

DDC classification:

307.72 APP

Summary: Asymposium is by definition a venture in mutual aid between contributors, editor, and publisher. It requires collaboration in the achievement of some central purpose which orders and unites its parts. In the present case this purpose was a volume of essays which would introduce its reader to the salient characteristics of the peasant and pastoral societies of so-called underdeveloped areas; to the social reality of the village communities where development projects are being undertaken; to the problems of social change that inevitably accompany such projects; to the economic aspects of development at the village level; to the role of education-more particularly that of fundamental education and its practitioner-in stimulating self-help among villagers; and to the habit of critically examining the assumptions that under gird every approach to human welfare and community development

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Asymposium is by definition a venture in mutual aid between contributors, editor, and publisher. It requires collaboration in the achievement of some central purpose which orders and unites its parts.
In the present case this purpose was a volume of essays which would introduce its reader to the salient characteristics of the peasant and pastoral societies of so-called underdeveloped areas; to the social reality of the village communities where development projects are being undertaken; to the problems of social change that inevitably accompany such projects; to the economic aspects of development at the village level; to the role of education-more particularly that of fundamental education and its practitioner-in stimulating self-help among villagers; and to the habit of critically examining the assumptions that under gird every approach to human welfare and community development

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