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Peer reviewedSchwier, Richard A. – Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 2001
Examines theoretical and conceptual issues around promoting the growth of virtual learning communities and considers issues around using communication technologies in formal and informal learning environments. Highlights include: the theoretical context of community; categories for examining virtual learning communities; emphases of virtual…
Descriptors: Community Characteristics, Community Development, Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Uses in Education
Peer reviewedPavela, Gary – New Directions for Student Services, 1996
American colleges and universities will play an increasingly important role in revitalizing a national sense of identity and community. Judicial affairs offices can contribute to that process by helping students define and protect values essential to community life. (Author)
Descriptors: Accountability, College Students, Community Characteristics, Community Development
Download full textBeaulieu, Lionel J. – 1980
The persons and groups who held lead roles in the development of an electricity generating plant near Craig, Colorado, and/or aided in problem solving activities are the concerns of this examination of boomtown studies in which field theory is employed as a framework for assessing Craig's community structure characteristics. The usefulness of…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Citizen Participation, Community Characteristics, Community Coordination
Johnson, Thomas G. – 1989
This paper sketches several successful community economic development programs that have implications for rural education. Case studies are used to discuss community characteristics that contribute to development success. In Virginia, a Community Certification Program offers statewide business recruitment services to communities that meet program…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Community Characteristics, Community Development, Cooperative Programs
Baba, Marietta Lynn; Abonyi, Malvina Hauk – 1979
Tracing the background and history of Mexican Americans in Detroit, Michigan, the booklet briefly reviews the early stages of Meso-American history, the Spaniards' arrival in Mexico, colonial Mexico, Mexico's revolt for independence, and the internal turmoil in Mexico which continued until early in 1861. The accomplishments of such Mexicans as…
Descriptors: American Indians, Community Characteristics, Community Development, Cultural Interrelationships
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
Charnley, A. H.; And Others – 1983
The twelfth in a series of research reviews investigating adult education in Great Britain, this paper focuses on adult education activities in local geographic areas and on the concept of "community" and its enhancement of adult education services. After part 1 summarizes the other reviews in the series, part 2 discusses the role of…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Students, Community, Community Characteristics
