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WellbeingOriented: The Content Construction for Community Education

  

  1. Center for Society and Education, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444 China
  • Online:2012-01-15 Published:2012-01-15

Abstract: Community education shoulders the mission of providing education service to meet the needs of community members, so it's closely related to people's livelihood. In the process of social transformation under the background of reform and opening up, the problem of people' s livelihood has been foregrounded, and naturally, the outstanding wellbeing issue has become a challenge for community education. The present article argues that the content construction of community education should be done with a view of people's livelihood, with measures to enlarge mass participation, nurture community education teams, and expand volunteer organizations. The content construction is supposed to enhance community awareness and sense of belonging, and to promote community development in the hope of building a learning society stepbystep.

Key words: community education, wellbeing, content construction, community development, function, strategy