Modules

Module 2: Service-Learning in Community Development: An introduction to community work in a South African community.

Welcome to the Service-Learning in Community Development (SLCD) Summer School Webpages!

These webpages are available for all Summer School students participating in Module 2: Service-Learning in Community Development: An introduction to community work in a South African community. The course aims to integrate the theory of community development with practice through a short service learning experience. Students are given a brief overview of community development concepts and processes against the backdrop of the South African development issues. The course content is coupled with engagement in a local community agency where students get the opportunity to observe and experience a real life situation and provide a limited but meaningful service.

Only students participating in Module 2 should make use of these webpages and the available materials posted here.

Please find below a list of selected readings that participating students will be expected to have read in preparation for the first lectures. These texts provide an introduction to key community development concepts and introduce the South African context within a broader discussion of the various dimensions of poverty. These readings provide the groundwork for much of the later content of the course and provide a vital foundation to begin the course from.

All students should come prepared to the first lectures willing to discuss the following readings. Any questions or comments regarding the readings can be referred your course facilitators, Email or Email .

We look forward to working with you in June!

Study Guide

Literature List:

Aliber, M. 2002. “Poverty-eradication and Sustainable Development”. Integrated Rural and Regional Development Research Programme, Occasional Paper 1. Cape Town: Human Sciences Research Council. ISSN 1684-5250. 56 p. (eSource)

#Bhattacharyya, J. 2004. Theorizing community Development. Journal of the Community Development Society, Vol 34, No 2, 5-35 (read)

Bradshaw TK. 2000. Complex Community Development: collaboration, comprehensive programs and community coalitions in a complex society. Community Development Journal, Vol 35, No 2, 133-1145. (eSource)

#Boonzaier E & Sharp J. 1988. South African Keywords. The Uses and Abuses of Political concepts. Cape Town: David Phillip. (Selection of chapters).

#Bradshaw TK. 2007. Theories of Poverty and Anti-Poverty Programs in Community Development. Journal of the Community Development Society, Vol 38, No 1, 5-18. (read)

#Brammer LM & McDonald G. 1999. The Helping Relationship: Process and Skills. 7th Edition. Allen & Baker. London.

Bridger JC & Luloff AE. 1999. Toward and interactional approach to sustainable community development. Journal of Rural Studies, 15 (1999), 377-387 (eSource)

#Campus Compact. 2003. Introduction to Service-Learning Toolkit. Second Edition. Providence: Brown University.

De Jong, P. & Berg I. K. 2002: Interviewing for Solution. Wadsworth, Australia.

De Beer, F & Swanepoel, H. 2005. Community Development and Beyond: Issues, structures and procedures. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik Publishers. (read)

Littrell DW & Littrell DP. 2006. Practicing Community Development. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Extention.

Max-Neef MA. 1991. Human Scale Development. Conception, Application and Further Reflections. New York: The Apex Press. 114 p. (ISBN 0-945257-35-X)

Narayan, D. (with Patel, R., Schafft, K., Rademacher, A & Koch-Schulte, S. 2000. Voices of the Poor. Can Anyone Hear Us? Cape Town: Oxford University Press (published for the World Bank). ISBN 0-19-521601-6. 343 p. (eSource)

Swanepoel H & De Beer F. 2006. Community Development. Breaking the cycle of poverty. Fourth edition. Landsdowne: Juta and Co. 317 p. (prescribed textbook)