The Meaning of Community Development Learning in a Decentralized Society

Abstract

  This study deals with community development of art activities.

  The purpose of this study is to clarify the relations between the center and the district in the process of community development, and to examine the role of community development learning in the process. This study adopts “the theory of Integrative Organs” to analyze the relation between the center and the district to attain these purposes. According to “the theory of Integration Organs”, local districts lose their identity as local colture is integrated with city culture, under the process of urbanization.

  As a result of the analysis, four steps in community development were identified, with the above theory representing the second step. After the second step, the community development learning begun by some of the local inhabitants spread throughout the whole community, which then spread to the city. This ‘process oriented community development’ could give local districts autonomy in social learning.