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Uniform Title Transforming society (Routledge (Firm))
Title Transforming society : strategies for social development from Singapore, Asia and around the world / edited by Ngoh Tiong Tan with Steve Chan, Kalyani Mehta and David Androff
Published London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (xxv, 256 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Routledge contemporary Southeast Asia series ; 91
Routledge contemporary Southeast Asia series ; 91.
Contents Transforming society : leadership, social development and social change / Ngoh Tiong Tan -- Social policy issues and social development in Singapore and around the world / Tharman Shanmugaratnam -- Sustaining social development in the 21st century / Noeleen Heyzer -- Fifty years of social innovation : reflections on social policy in Singapore / Michael Sherraden -- Government's approach towards social policies in a digital age / Lawrence Wong -- Social development in Asia / Manohar Pawar -- Social development and social research in Africa / Leila Patel -- Measuring transformative workforce activation using the comprehensive employment hope scale / Philip Hong -- Transforming Thai-Myanmar borderland : de facto statelessness, indigenous minorities and internally displaced persons / Steve Chan -- Social work and social welfare preparations for ASEAN economic community integration / Puchong Senanuch -- Toward a synergy of tripartite empowerment for older persons / Alvin Mak and Jianbin Xu -- Transforming long-term care in three Chinese societies / Shiyu Lu and Mattias Ottervik -- Flood disasters in Malaysia : psychosocial care and social work intervention / Noremy Binti Md. Akhir, Azlinda Binti Azman and Mohd. Taufik Mohammad -- Women in household decision-making and their contribution to agriculture and rural development in Nigeria / Hussayn Idris, Imaji O.Z. Sule, Ismail Baba and Rajwani M.D. Zain -- Social development in agrarian and non-agrarian communities in the Philippines / Violeta R. Hunt-Engracia -- Host organization perspectives of volunteer traits : implications for selection and training / Sarita Barton, Bradley Tucker, Benjamin Lough -- Asset based community development (ABCD) : an alternative path for community development / Aissetu Barry Ibrahima -- Social work education for social transformation / Vimla V. Nadkarni
Summary "Social change affects all quarters of life and human society whether in individual neighbourhoods, communities or nations, or in the world as a whole--encompassing many issues of gender, age, social class and ethnicity. This book examines both the conceptual as well as operational aspects of social transformation and social development. It examines societal transformation at the individual, group, community, national and international levels using a range of case studies from Singapore, Asia and around the world. The five sections of this book highlight challenges to social development; workforce and migration, social welfare and social care; women and development; community development and sustainability issues. Social development and social transformation are presented as intertwined concepts that affect citizens in profound ways from social care to social well-being, construction of social relationship as well as community life, capacity building and nation building"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Social change -- Asia
Social change -- Singapore
Human services -- Asia
Human services -- Singapore
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Human services
Social change
Social policy
SUBJECT Asia -- Social policy -- 21st century
Singapore -- Social policy -- 21st century
Subject Asia
Singapore
Form Electronic book
Author Tan, Ngoh Tiong, editor
Chan, Steve, editor
Mehta, Kalyani, editor
Androff, David K., editor
Container of (work): Shanmugaratnam, Tharman. Social policy issues and social development in Singapore and around the world
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