Personal and Professional Development Relating to Rural Development

BU MRD proposed items:

a. Attitudes/Professional Behaviour

• 1. Empathises with the disadvantaged in concrete ways, e.g. through volunteer roles
• 2. Is imbued with desire to continue the learning process; has an open mind
• 3. Ethical in extracting and sharing information and in communications with stakeholders
• 4. Respectful of social and cultural differences in attitudes and beliefs

d. Knowledge Related & Analytical

• 1. Exercises critical judgement
• 2. Engages in creative thinking
• 3. Is adept at problem solving
• 4. Understands the objective definitions and socially constructed representations of the “rural”
• 5. Can identify major issues of rural policy in Manitoba, Canada, and the world
• 6. Understands theory of community development, CED, and sustainability, and approaches to community development interventions
• 7. Understands group dynamics

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