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Singh, Surendra P.; Comer, Sammy – 1988
Vocational and technical training programs for less developed countries offer little in the way of training the intermediate cadres, technicians, and village level workers necessary for modernizing the primary sector on which developing economies depend. Training is vital because it secures cost reduction and maximum use of organization, enables…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Development, Developing Nations, Job Training
Ohio State Legislative Office of Education Oversight, Columbus. – 1992
This report evaluates the Urban University Program (UUP), designed to improve urban outreach activities at eight Ohio Universities: Cleveland State University, Kent State University, Ohio State University, University of Akron, University of Cincinnati, University of Toledo, Wright State University, and Youngstown State University. The UUP provides…
Descriptors: Community Development, Higher Education, Metropolitan Areas, Outreach Programs

Kelly, James G. – Journal of Rural Community Psychology, 1986
Discusses common themes in five papers on rural community psychology: myth that rural life is naturally supportive, importance of community needs in designing prevention programs, risks of labeling diseases, rural psychologists as developers/advocates, using advice/direct suggestion, thinking in systems/ecological terms, role/boundary conflicts,…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Community Characteristics, Community Coordination, Community Development
Peace Corps, Washington, DC. Information Collection and Exchange Div. – 1987
This manual is designed primarily to assist Education Peace Corps Volunteers undertake community projects in addition to their primary job assignment. Chapter 1 discusses the factors that determine the measure of success of the project. The process, not the product, is emphasized. Chapter 2 on situational analysis outlines areas of investigation…
Descriptors: Community Development, Developing Nations, Development, Economic Development
Rivera, William M.; And Others – 1983
This review of selected study designs, the first volume of a two-volume resource, is intended to advise state administrative program leaders and others with program evaluation responsibilities of how to design studies of cooperative extension programs. Three kinds of information are presented in the volume's three parts. The first part introduces…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Vocational Education, Agricultural Education, Community Development
Rivera, William M., Ed.; And Others – 1983
These abstracts of 42 studies of extension program results, which make up the second volume of a two-volume resource, are intended to advise state administrative program leaders and others with program evaluation responsibilities of how to design studies of cooperative extension programs. Designed to support volume I, which refers to these…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Adult Education, Adult Vocational Education, Agricultural Education
Wzorek, Carol – 1987
The 2.5-day workshop described in this manual was designed to meet the growing concern that small projects administered by the Peace Corps were not truly community projects or priorities. To foster more community involvement in the design, implementation, and evaluation of projects, this workshop is geared to the training of Peace Corps volunteers…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Community Development, Community Planning, Decision Making
Bhola, H. S. – 1982
A manual for trainers of development workers and change agents in the third world provides guidelines for evaluation of development training programs. Chapters define evaluation, present a general model of development, and discuss evaluation in development training programs. Designing training systems for development workers and change agents,…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Community Development, Data Analysis, Data Collection
Ledesma, Antonio L., Ed.; Ledesma, Angelita Y., Ed. – 1980
A collection of papers, from the Centre for the Development of Human Resources in Rural Asia (CENDHRRA) Evaluation Seminar (1980) in Bandungan, Central Java, provides guidelines for evaluation of rural development projects of non-governmental organizations (NGOs). The first part of the report contains a summary of group discussions on different…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Community Development, Community Health Services, Community Involvement
Peace Corps, Washington, DC. Information Collection and Exchange Div. – 2003
This booklet, one of six that compose the Peace Corp's programming and training (P&T) guidelines, provides information and ideas on ways to increase each post's effectiveness through linking P&T. An introduction discusses the direct impact that P&T have on the success of each other, since, at the Peace Corps, programming drives…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Budgeting, Community Development, Community Resources
Bloom, Evan; Reed, Sue – 1991
Intended for community development professionals and volunteers who work with preliterate communities, this illustrated handbook accompanies a library of visual aids that allow rural people to formulate their own projects. (The curriculum, called Pictorial Apprenticeship, transfers the process of project design into visual forms that literate and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Community Development, Community Involvement
Hubbard, Robert L.; Ennis-Applegate, Mari – 1988
This manual contains materials for a 2-week workshop to train extension staff and community leaders working at the village level in the Solomon Islands. The aim of the course is to improve participants' skills so they are better able to help communities and community groups design and manage community projects. An introduction addresses the team…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Development, Community Involvement, Community Programs
Arkansas Community Education Development Association, Little Rock. – 1982
Rural school districts in five Arkansas towns set up school-based development corporations (SBDCs) to provide vocational and career training relevant to the needs of rural high school students and the community and to improve the economic and social welfare of the community as a whole. Each SBDC owned and operated businesses using student labor…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Community Benefits, Community Development, Definitions
Vella, Jane – 1995
This book, which is designed for trainers responsible for training other trainers, outlines and illustrates the principles of a program in which trainers are prepared to promote adult learning and change. Part 1: "Training That Respects the Learner," presents insights from popular education and a model for training trainers in the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy, Case Studies
Zeiss, Tony, Ed. – 1991
Brief descriptions are provided of 16 model literacy initiatives undertaken by community colleges in conjunction with local businesses or community groups. Following introductory comments by Barbara Bush, Tony Zeiss, H. James Owen, and Roy Romer, "Literacy: America's Great Deficit," by Earnestine Thomas-Wilson-Robertson and Tony Zeiss, reviews…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, College Role
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