Community development practitioner profiling for occupational professionalisation, skills development and continuous quality assurance
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Date
2022
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University of Stellenbosch
Abstract
Regardless of the worldwide acknowledgement of the importance of community development,
the challenge of professional occupational recognition remains, intensified by the lack of
practitioner profile data. Raising practice standards through standardised, cohesive and
effective movements drives professionalism, guided by a practice policy framework that
describes its practitioners’ ethical code, standardised and quality-assured knowledge and skills
to be measured against regulated occupational norms and standards. This article provides a
broad overview of the requirements for occupational professionalisation linked to a
countrywide practitioner profile survey conducted to inform the South African Community
Development Practice Policy Framework that guides occupational professionalism pre- and
post-professionalisation.
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Community development, Professional development, Practitioner profiling, Skills development, South Africa
Citation
Hart, C., & De Beer, F. (2022). Community development practitioner profiling for occupational professionalisation, skills development and continuous quality assurance. Social Work (South Africa), 58(4), 459-477. 10.15270/58-4-1078