Essay Questions: Please select a question for individual paper not exceeding 3,500
words in English.
1. ‘Community…becomes a processual creation rather than a fixed
description. …repositions the sites of communion from the external to the
internal, from the universal to the specific, from objective to contextual.’
(Burkett 2001),
What would be your view on community nowadays? Please illustrate with
example on what and how you would do in working with the community.
2. The “strengths perspectives” is criticized to be “only a weak antidote to the
calculative individualism of contemporary neo-liberalism”. Please discuss critically
the statement and illustrate with example what &how community workers
should/could do in working with contemporary community.
3. The deficiency oriented community work is criticized as disempowering as it
poses negative self image on the participants.
Please discuss critically the above statement. As community workers, please
illustrate with example on what & how you would do in community problem solving
activities in empowering the participants.
4. Selecting a community, be it a place community or community of interest,
making need assessments and explicating what you want to do. Selecting also
theory(ies) & developing strategy(ies) in delineating how you would engender changes in
the community.