Development Theory and Practice
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Supriya Pattanayak
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Course Name : Development Theory and Practice
Code(Credit) : CUTM1244(2-0-2)
Course Objectives
- To provide a critical understanding of ‘development’, the major theories of development and imagine a post development era
- Understand the problems of development in a changing context, with a focus on India
- Develop conceptual, analytical and practice skills needed to address community level issues
Course Outcomes
CO1 Be able to appreciate the histories, geographies of development, critically appraise the theories of development and imagine a post development era - PO1(3), PO6(3), PO8(2)
CO2 Be able to apply, in projects, the understanding of development theories to real life problems in the community - Po2(3), PO6(3), PO8(3)
CO3 Be able to utilise the participatory practice tools in the community for planning/ monitoring or evaluating a program - PO6(3), PO8(3), PO9(3)
Course Syllabus
Module 1:
The Invention of 'development', the crisis of ‘development’, Modernisation theories, underdevelopment, dependency and world system theories, environmentalism and sustainable development, from MDGs to SDGs, feminist encounters with development discourse, participatory development, globalization and development
Module 2:
India - Political economy of poverty and development; regional and rural-urban disparities; Development perspectives and policies in India after independence; State-led initiatives to address 'poverty' and 'development'; Development impacts - diseases, disasters, migration, climate change/ environmental degradation
Module 3:
Role of Non-government/ civil society organisations and CSR in the development discourse; Other developments - Sustainable Development Goals revisited; Engendering development; Post-modernism, Representation and the Cultural Construction of Identity.
References
Potter, RB., Binns, T., Elliott, JA., Nel, E & Smith, DW., 2018, Geographies of Development: An Introduction to Development Studies, 4th ed, London and New York: Routledge. (Textbook)
Desai, V & Potter, RB., 2011, The Companion to Development Studies, 2nd ed, London: Hodder Education.
Crush, J., 1995, The Power of Development, London and New York: Routledge.
Session Plan
Session 1, 2 & 3
Histories and Geographies of Development - The Invention of Development, the crisis of 'development'
PPT Conceptualising Development
Video on History of Development
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-nAMmR6lks
Video on Why some countries are rich and others poor?
Session 4 & 5
Development theories – modernisation theories, underdevelopment, dependency and world system theories
World systems theory, dependency theory and global inequality video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79gCqjl6ihQ&feature=youtu.be
Modernisation theory video https://youtu.be/JN6LlMY2ApQ
Session 6 & 7
Development theories – environmentalism and sustainable development, from MDGs to SDGs, encounters with development discourse
Environmentalism and sustainable development video https://youtu.be/b8m8cJoMp4s
Transitioning from the MDGs to SDGs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_hLuEui6ww
Session 8
Participatory development - 'first things first' and 'putting the last first'
Participatory Development https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85HUB-E9kHs&feature=youtu.be
Reference video https://youtu.be/21QVB42wsC8
Session 9
Globalisation and development
Globalization explained https://youtu.be/JJ0nFD19eT8
Globalization and development https://youtu.be/IX_WEeS-O6k
Session 10 & 11
India - Political economy of poverty and development, regional and rural-urban disparities
PPT Political Economy of Poverty, Planning and Reforms in India
Growing inequality in India (Hindi) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYnn5PSMt2Y
Session 12 & 13
Development perspectives and policies in India after independence - five year plans - from 'garibi hatao' to MGNREGs and Swacch Bharat.
Development impacts - population dynamics; diseases, disasters, migration, climate change/ environmental degradation
PPT Development Impacts - Social and Environmental
Videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFpM5e_6rtM (population dynamics)
https://www.climaterealityproject.org/blog/climate-health-connection-infectious-disease-video (health and climate)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEBM9H8AFmo (natural hazards and its impacts)
Session 14
Role of Non-governmental/ civil society organisations and CSR in the development discourse
PPT Role of NGOs CSR in Development
Videos
Session 15 & 16
Participatory planning of programmes, participatory implementation of programmes; participatory monitoring and evaluation; participatory impact analysis and reflection (PIAR)
https://www.slideshare.net/LUND456/participatory-planning
https://slideplayer.com/slide/6066798/
https://www.slideshare.net/lenfontanilla/participatory-monitoring-and-evaluation-40805319
Session 17
Other developments - Sustainable Development Goals
https://www.slideshare.net/basilachie1/sustainable-development-goals-140797930
Session 19
Post-modernism, Representation and the Cultural Construction of Identity
Session 20 to 32
Projects:
Case Studies
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Our Main Teachers
Supriya Pattanayak has her qualifications from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (MA) and the National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences (MPhil), India and RMIT University, Australia (PhD). She has extensive teaching, research and policy experience and her research interest is in the field of gender and development issues, and social work pedagogy […]