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Wright, David J. – 2002
This book analyzes the Neighborhood Preservation Initiative (NPI), which demonstrates how comprehensive community development efforts can be effectively organized to help preserve working class neighborhoods. The NPI is a comprehensive community building initiative active in 10 neighborhoods within nine cities. Its approach is to catch places…
Descriptors: Community Development, Neighborhood Improvement, Preservation, Urban Areas
Peer reviewedThomson, Cathie – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 1991
The recommendations of Scotland's 1975 Alexander Report for increasing adult education participation and Tom Lovett's development of a social action model with working class adults in Liverpool and Ireland are used as background to an examination of Scottish projects that use a community work approach to involve nonparticipating adults in…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Control, Community Development, Community Organizations
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
