PJSD 2017 Volume 9 Click here to view the electronic version of the journal Issue Editor: Rosalinda Pineda Ofreneo, PhD Editorial Board: Jocelyn T. Caragay Leocito S. Gabo, PhD, DD Sylvia Estrada Claudio, PhD Nancy E. Parreno Managing Editor: Valerainne R. Lopez Technical Editor: Melissa Y. Moran The CSWCD in the Quest for Sustainable Human Development Amaryllis Tiglao-Torres, PhD Poverty […]
The 2016 Philippine Journal of Social Development revisits the idea of “creative” of “creativity”, an oft-repeated standard in social development practice yet whose parameters are not always well-defined. What is creativity in social development? Does it entail the utilization of art forms such as songs, poetry or dancing? Is it the same as the creation of something “new”?
This issue of Philippine Journal of Social Development concerns with Transformative Community Organizing (TCO) exemplified by the articles in this journal.
Sikhay Kilos Newsmagazine is the annual publication of the College of Social Work and Community Development in which various activities and milestones of each department are featured. It is being launched every Recognition Day and distributed for free.
The Philippine Journal of Social Development (PJSD) strives to showcase the College of Social Work and Community Development’s (CSWCD) brand of scholarship of engagement that is people-centered, community-based, participatory, gender-responsive, life-affirming, integrative, and transformative. It invites contributions from scholars inside and outside the College to shed light on both enduring and cutting-edge themes that are part of its research and extension agenda.
On November 8, 2013 supertyphoon Yolanda (international name Haiyan), recognized as the world’s strongest typhoon to hit land to date, hit the Philippines and left a trail of death and destruction across a wide area of the country’s central islands.
While PAGASA warned the public of the typhoon as early as a week before it hit land, the supertyphoon exposed the lack of preparedness of some local government units and the vulnerabilities of communities to disaster risks.
This issue of the Philippine Journal of Social Development contains articles on the general topic of ‘peace and governance’, the fourth research and advocacy cluster of the University of the Philippines College of Social Work and Community Development.
Studies on child labor revealed alarming statistics. In 2011, 5.49 million or 19 percent of the total population of children aged five to 17 years old were actively working in various economic sectors. Of this figure, only 2.28 million children were engaged in permissible work, while the rest (3.21 million children) were considered child laborers.
The reasons for publishing a special issue of the Philippine Journal of Social Development, were not immediately evident when I was asked to serve as its editor. Dean Rosalinda Pineda-Ofreneo had to explain to me that “social protection” had become quite relevant, perhaps even urgent.
