SCK3703 REVISION
INTRODUCTION
Purpose: Revision and assignments
• Community work concepts (Weyers.2011)
• Community Work process (Weyers. 2011)
• Community work practice models (Weyers. 2011)
• Principles of Community Work (Study guide)
• Theories/approaches or perspectives (Weyers...
, INTRODUCTION
Purpose: Revision and assignments
• Community work concepts (Weyers.2011)
• Community Work process (Weyers. 2011)
• Community work practice models (Weyers. 2011)
• Principles of Community Work (Study guide)
• Theories/approaches or perspectives (Weyers.2011 & Study
guide)
• Features of community Work (Study guide)
• Outcomes of community work (Study guide)
• Practitioner knowledge requirements (Weyers. 2011)
• Practitioner attitudinal requirements (Weyers. 2011)
, CONCEPTS
COMMUNITY (Weyers.2011)
• A community is a social system which originates when a population of
individuals localised in a specific geographic area, establishes and utilises
structures and relationships to deal with impediments and at the same
time develops a sense of communal thinking, identity and activities. The
dimensions of a community are social, spatial, functional and cultural-
symbolic dimensions. The demarcations of community are contextual,
geo-spatial and geo-functional
• The social dimension of a community
Community is a form of social entity. It consist of both individuals and the social relationships formed with each
other and their environment.
• The spatial dimension of a community
It is a neighbourhood, village, town, city, region, nation or even the planet as such a geographic entity.
The functional dimension of a community
• It covers the purpose of such a system.
• The cultural-symbolic dimension of a community
• It refers to the 'entity' with which people identify or have a shared emotional connection. These could
include: a school, university or employer, a similar service provider (e.g. the local municipality or hospital),
an ethnic or language group; a religion and its institutions; a sub-culture or gang; or even the same
problems or disabilities (e.g. blindness).8
, CONCEPTS
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT(Weyers.2011)
• CD is the method, process, programme and strategy by
means of which change agents:
✓ speed up the rate at which a community develops;
✓ provide direction to the development process to realise objectives
within the economic, psychosocial, bio-physiological, technological,
spiritual-cultural, political, environmental, educational and other
spheres of life;
✓ makes the goal attainment process as cost-effective, streamlined and
sustainable as possible so that both human and environmental
resources are used optimally; and
✓ contribute to human growth and the unlocking of human potential by
empowering community members to take responsibility for their own,
as well as the whole system's development.
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