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Hughes, Phillip, Ed.; Mulford, William, Ed. – 1978
The state of New South Wales (NSW) ceded the Canberra area to the Commonwealth in 1911 as the Australian Capital Territory (ACT), but maintained responsibility for education in the region until 1974, when the territory became responsible for its own educational system. ACT's Independent Education Authority came into being in large part as the…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Community Action, Community Control, Community Role
Kasperson, Roger E.; Breitbart, Myrna – 1974
This resource paper on the subject of citizen participation, decentralization, and advocacy planning is part of a series designed to supplement undergraduate geography courses. The approach of the paper de-emphasizes inventory or case study reviews of specific participation or advocacy planning projects for a more general conceptual discussion of…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Community Action, Community Control, Community Development
Ornstein, Allan C. – 1974
The contents of this book are organized into seven chapters. Chapter 1 discusses methods for organizing schools and communities. It deals with three alternative models for the schools: administrative decentralization, community participation, and community control. It also examines three alternative models for the community: social planning,…
Descriptors: Black Attitudes, Black Community, Black Power, Community Action
Allen, John C.; Dillman, Don A. – 1994
This book explores how community functions in "Bremer," a small rural town in eastern Washington. Human interactions in a variety of contexts are analyzed within a framework that posits three distinct eras of social and economic organization: community-control, mass-society, and information eras. Contexts examined are farming (the…
Descriptors: Agriculture, Citizen Participation, Community Action, Community Control
May, Stephen, Ed. – 1999
After a long history as a tool of forced assimilation of indigenous populations, education is now a key arena in which indigenous peoples can reclaim and revalue their languages and cultures and thereby improve the academic success of indigenous students. Community-based education offers a means by which indigenous peoples can regain a measure of…
Descriptors: Activism, American Indian Education, American Indians, Bilingual Education
