Course Theory and Practice Community Empowerment

This course aims to prepare students to be able to contribute to improving the quality of community life in accordance with the scope of the field of non-formal education in community empowerment efforts. Empowerment efforts are carried out by developing social relations and relations in society, understanding and analyzing potential that can be developed, identifying changes in society and their relation to the importance of empowerment efforts, empowerment strategies, conceptual foundations, stages and practices of empowerment in participatory community groups. To realize this, the following course material is given: Approaches to Community Development, Social Welfare Development, Community Development, Community Development, Ecology and Social Justice, Community Development Vision, Non-formal Education as a strategy in community empowerment practice, planning and evaluation of development-based community, community-based resource management, program planning, empowerment models, social assistance, participatory approaches and techniques. Learning strategies in lectures are discussion, question and answer, lecture, practice, and mini research. This course also presents and examines various theories and theoretical approaches regarding community development and empowerment, examines the concept, theory and philosophy of empowerment, background, objectives and benefits of empowerment, as well as various methods and strategies for assisting the community, is able to plan, implement and evaluate programs and community empowerment models. Indicators of success in this course are students being able to express and study various theories and theoretical approaches regarding community development and empowerment.

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