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Direct linkBringle, Robert G., Ed.; Hatcher, Julie A., Ed.; Jones, Steven G., Ed. – Stylus Publishing, LLC, 2010
This book focuses on conducting research on International Service Learning (ISL), which includes developing and evaluating hypotheses about ISL outcomes and measuring its impact on students, faculty, and communities. The book argues that rigorous research is essential to improving the quality of ISL's implementation and delivery, and providing the…
Descriptors: Community Benefits, Community Development, Research Design, Program Design
Download full textMeyers, James; And Others – 1976
The concept of public marketing presents a strategy for the systems approach to community development that would facilitate the community decision making process via improved communication. Basic aspects of the social marketing process include: (1) product policy; (2) channels of distribution; (3) pricing (perceived price vs quality and quantity…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Community Development, Community Involvement, Decision Making
Somekh, Bridget – Open University Press, 2005
This book presents a fresh view of action research as a methodology uniquely suited to researching the processes of innovation and change. Drawing on twenty-five years' experience of leading or facilitating action research projects, Bridget Somekh argues that action research can be a powerful systematic intervention, which goes beyond describing,…
Descriptors: Organizational Development, Community Development, Action Research, Research Methodology
Rowley, Thomas D., Ed.; And Others – 1996
This book addresses the need for research information that can be used as a foundation for rural development policy. Part I deals with the four components of rural development: education (human capital), entrepreneurship, physical infrastructure, and social infrastructure. Part II examines analytic methods of measuring rural development efforts,…
Descriptors: Community Characteristics, Community Development, Community Resources, Economic Development
Fitzsimmons, Stephen J.; Freedman, Abby J. – 1981
The study documents what happened in 10 rural communities when a federal educational funding program (Experimental Schools) in 1972 provided 5-year grants for demonstration projects designed both to improve the school system and, through the schools, to address a variety of community needs. The study employs two strategies to document the ways in…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Change Strategies, Community Attitudes, Community Change
Medel-Anonuevo, Carolyn, Ed. – 1999
This document contains 14 papers that were developed for a 5-day international seminar-workshop at which representatives of multilateral agencies, governments, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), women's organizations, feminist groups, and universities discussed gender issues in monitoring and evaluation of adult education. The following papers…
Descriptors: Accountability, Adult Education, Adult Programs, Community Development
