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Peer reviewedFavero, Philip – Journal of the Community Development Society, 1987
Content analysis of journal articles revealed that most authors agree that community decisions should be informed, democratic, and just. Authors disagree, however, about whether community development practitioners should act as advocates. The author provides a guide for making ethical choices concerning advocacy. (Author/CH)
Descriptors: Advocacy, Community Development, Decision Making, Ethics
Download full textNorthwest Regional Educational Lab., Portland, OR. – 1972
Designed for progressive implementation (1966-1977) in the Northwest Region, this program guide emphasizes rural educational change via training systems and materials which suggest and support new structural patterns and participatory decision making for rural schools and communities. Divided into three major sections (Summary Information, Program…
Descriptors: Activities, Change Agents, Community Development, Decision Making
Community Development: An Intensive Training Manual. Extension Programming in Community Development.
Gessaman, Paul H.; Mann, Lois L. – 1978
Combining formal instruction, work group activities, and field experience in nonmetropolitan counties, this last of three publications making up a community development training manual deals with extension programming in community development (CD). It is primarily intended for Extension Service personnel who have responsibilities for planning,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Citizen Participation, Community Development, Community Involvement
Tait, John L.; And Others – 1978
Purposes of this guide for change agents are to (1) present four methods for identifying community power actors (community leaders), (2) provide a description of how change agents might use each of the four methods, (3) compare the four methods, (4) suggest ways to use a combination of methods or combine elements from various methods, and (5)…
Descriptors: Change Agents, City Officials, Community Action, Community Development
Texas Univ., Austin. Research and Development Center for Teacher Education. – 1973
Decision Oriented Evaluation System (DOES) for community development training presents a system for training evaluation in prototypic form. This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of training evaluation methodology as well as details on specific functions involved in the training evaluation process. This model for evaluation is broken into…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Community Benefits, Community Change, Community Development
Gessaman, Paul H. – 1978
Intended for agency field personnel who assist in local community development (CD) efforts, this publication is the second of three making up an intensive training manual for community development. Using an inservice training approach, this part of the manual contains four instructional units: rationale for CD training, what CD is (CD as process,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Agency Cooperation, Change Agents, Change Strategies
