Social development and its relevance to Australian social work

Title: Social development and its relevance to Australian social work
Creator: Gray, Mel; Crofts, Penny
Relation: Australian Social Work Vol. 61, Issue 1, p. 88-103
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03124070701818757
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2008
Description: This paper presents Midgley’s theory on social development to an Australian social work audience. It explores the concept and theory of social development, examines the relationship between social work and social development, and discusses its relevance to social work in Australia. It suggests that while social work and social development might share similar broad goals, their strategic approaches differ with the former cast within a professional model concerned with welfare broadly conceived and the latter directly concerned with the alleviation of poverty in the less developed parts of the world. It concludes with thoughts on the Australian face of social development and suggests changes which would need to be made if social work were to embrace social development.
Subject: social development; Australian social work; community-business; corporate social responsibility
Identifier: uon:2060
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/28049
Identifier: ISSN:0312-407X
Language: eng
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