Theatre for Development Project

Delma Jackson

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Sujets

• Practical Guide
• Personal Guide
• Theatre
• Reference
• Delma
• Project
• Development
• Jackson

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• Publié par: Xlibris US
• Date de parution: 22 décembre 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669860310
• Langue: English

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Theatre for Development Project
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Delma Jackson

 
Copyright © 2023 by Delma Jackson.
 
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Contents
Chapter 1       Cultural Components of Social Work Education
Chapter 2       A Professional Growth: Social Workers as Managers in Bridging the Gap for Professional Development in Tanzania
Chapter 3       Global Education

 
To the people of Mnlonganzila Vil lage

Chapter 1
Cultural Components of Social Work Education
Introduc tion
As a social worker in America, I have been exposed to various creative techniques that have been used successfully when working with clients. Skillfully trained social workers use their expertise to assist in creating positive and constructive change in the lives of the underprivileged and others in need; thus such social work models as casework, community organization, group work, and administration are the foundation of social work trai ning.
The social worker makes use of his or her skill, knowledge, and training to extract the client’s participation in and understand of his/her or community need for change. This change occurs through self-help, social service, or agency support available with the social worker as facilit ator.
This facilitator function of the social work profession has expanded as the nature of the problems being addressed has changed. Individual, community, and world problems have become more complex; for example, governments are less able to control border crossing for other populations outside their respective countries. Migration may contribute to the spread of disease or poverty. Natural disasters, war, and poverty are now more common and more likely to create a need for refugee assistance. These dynamics are cultural complexities, which contribute to the need for more in-depth understanding as well as a new concept of the culture of poverty. Such mobility and change within the world has globalized poverty and created what seems to be more resistant strands of poverty, and the need for additional skills for addressing these conc erns.
Social work in this new and more global society must be culturally sensitive, bilingual, and have a diverse cultural skillset. They need greater understanding of how globalization and economic forces impact the lives of all people, specifically the world’s poor. Poverty in today’s world includes issues of food security, pure water, natural disasters, literacy, and disease. World problems of this sort now impact the economic viability of surrounding countries, brain drain from the residents of the Global South, and other development is sues.
America, as well as other Western nations, is the sole focus of illegal migration from poorer nations for education, work, and survival opportunities. This is not to say that previously taught social work techniques are no longer applicable. These world changes offer the social worker opportunities to make significant contributions worldwide as well as opportunities to learn from helping skills of other cultures. Western social work is expanding to include a broader understanding of homelessness, migration, and world economics and how they impact the profession in its work with families, individuals, and communities world wide.
Internationally, the concept of development is often referred to when discussing underdeveloped or undeveloped countries of the residents of the Global South and now Eastern Europe, and Central America However, I submit that the dynamics of development apply in our own backyards. The characteristics of development can and should be applied to any experience, which significantly limit human potential. Lack of development regionally, in education or a housing project, can be just as limiting in human potential. All of these development issues deserve social work attention, skill, and commit ment.
Skill and commitment demand continuous infusion of techniques that enable the profession to fulfill its mission. Although not a new find, I feel Theatre for Development (TFD) is compatible as a resource for social work intervention. TFD offers the social worker another way of starting where the client is and facilitating the clients participation in the change pro cess.
I participated in just such a program with the Theatre Arts Department of the University of Dar es Salaam. The training process for this work began in the classroom. We were trained in Kiswahili language skills, TFD history, and process before proceeding to the villages in which I worked. I will share what I learned about the use of TFD, as well as research examining the lives of rural Tanzanian w omen.
Theatre For Development Research Pro cess
• Familiarization : This stage involves facilitators getting to know the villagers and vice versa. Sharing about the purpose of the project occurs after a written request and authorization has been made and received to and from village administra tors.