Introduction to Community Change and Conservation

Beginning at Gandhi’s ashram in Sevagram, India, this course explores the potential of human energy to transform community life, conservation, and social movements. It synthesizes schools of thought regarding development. It introduces an approach to community change and conservation called SEED-SCALE (Self- Evaluation for Effective Decision-making and Systems for Communities to Adapt Learning and Expand). Four principles are explored in detail:

1. building on success,
2. forming a three-way partnership of communities (bottom up), officials (top down), and experts (outside in),
3. basing action on locally specific data, and
4. using community workplans to guide collective behavior.

This course examines communities successfully applying techniques associated with the SEED-SCALE approach.

Instructor(s): 

Daniel Taylor

Professor, Equity & Empowerment

Daniel Taylor’s work with communities includes a village-based childhood in India, family planning education in Nepal, field-based educational programs in the United States and Himalaya, assisting college-bound students in West Virginia, promoting community-based nature protection in Nepal, China, and India, and systematic scholarship in strategies for sustainable and equitable change. Dr. Taylor is founder of Future Generations and had prior positions with Johns Hopkins University, Woodlands Mountain Institute, and the United States Agency for International Development. Daniel is the author of three books and more than thirty articles.

Ed. D.

Development Planning

Harvard University

1972

Ed. M.

Harvard University

1969

B.A.

Johns Hopkins University

1967

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