The Social Development Perspective in Social Work

Dates: 22 June – 8 July 2002

Organizing Institution: Center for Social Development (CSD)

Host Institution: Department of Social Work, State Pedagogical University of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

 

Eligibility

Disciplines: Social Work and related fields of the social sciences

Region/Countries: Mongolia

 

Language(s): Mongolian and English (with translation)

 

Course Director: Tungalag Chuluun, Executive Director, Center for Social Development

 

Contact Information for Applicants:

Postal Address: Center for Social Development, P. O. Box 20-A, Sukhbaatar Square – 3, Ulaanbaatar – 11, Mongolia

Telephone: +976 11 321 135

Telephone/Fax: +976 11 329 607

E-mail: tungalag_chuluun@hotmail.com; csd@mongolnet.mn

 

The School provides an opportunity for junior teachers of social work from Mongolia to develop knowledge and skills for teaching social work with an extensive focus on the social development perspective. The School offers the following courses: the Social Development Perspective in Social Work: Implications for Policy and Practice; The Social Worker as a Change Agent; Community Organization: Intervention Strategies, Tactics and Techniques for Social Work Practice; and Action Research as an Innovative Learning Tool for Social Work Teachers. Course instructors with extensive international experience in social work and social development are drawn from two leading American schools of social work: the School of Social Work, University of Pennsylvania and the George Warren Brown School of Social Work, Washington University, St. Louis.