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Wendy Griswold; Meera Patel; Edith Gnanadass – Adult Learning, 2024
Environmental injustice is often an intersection of economic, social, and environmental disparities. Addressing the inequities borne by communities overburdened with such disparities requires local learning opportunities. Exploring how and what participants learn during community education projects can help inform and improve practice, which was…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Volunteers, Adults, Pollution
Taylor, Jane; Appleton, Victoria – Adults Learning, 2011
The concept of Big Society provides inspiration--working "bottom up" to promote "collective action, reciprocity and a new, more engaged relationship between local people and public services". With so much written about the theory of the Big Society, this seems like an ideal time to put a little more practical detail into the mix. The authors argue…
Descriptors: Community Change, Community Development, Adult Learning, Public Service
Joseph, Alun E.; Skinner, Mark W. – Journal of Rural Studies, 2012
This paper examines voluntarism as a response to the challenges faced by people growing old in rural communities that are themselves being transformed in fundamental ways, both socially and demographically. Informed by evolving theorisations within the rural aging and geographies of voluntarism literatures, we outline the key processes in space…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, News Reporting, Rural Areas, Well Being

Kovacs, Ilona – International Social Science Journal, 1988
Outlines the possible contributions of a socialist country, using Hungary as an example, to give a fresh perspective on international relations. Examines relations between the state (central government) and the local community. Concludes that the paradigm of international relations can be realized only on more democratic and decentralized…
Descriptors: Community Change, Foreign Countries, Global Approach, Higher Education

Tripp, Luke – Western Journal of Black Studies, 1986
Community activities of Black, former student activists, and nonactivists who attended college during the 1960s were investigated in a longitudinal study conducted in 1969 and 1978. Community involvement among both groups was similar. Although the sample size is small, this is the only study where the data was obtained while subjects were still…
Descriptors: Activism, Black Leadership, Black Students, Citizen Participation

Friberg, Mats; Hettne, Bjorn – International Social Science Journal, 1988
Argues that social transformation at the macro-level (national and global) is the result of micro-processes, or social movements organized around local issues. Describes the global mobilization processes that have a local focus but nevertheless transcend the nation-state and modify the workings of the world-system. (BSR)
Descriptors: Community Change, Global Approach, Higher Education, International Relations
Blisard, Herb – Small Town, 1992
Discusses the problems and impact of national trends on small towns and how small towns in eastern Washington have adapted to social and economic change. Illustrates how small towns try to address contemporary concerns such as computerization, the environment, and the expanding needs of their communities while continuing to hold on to their…
Descriptors: Community Change, Community Size, Elementary Secondary Education, Life Style

Jablonsky, Thomas J. – Journal of Geography, 1986
Illustrates historically and politically how geography and ethnicity melded together to provide the foundation for a community consciousness that ultimately evolved into a unique form of community organization in Chicago's Back of the Yards neighborhood. Examines how external structures, internal arrangements, housing patterns, and ethnic patterns…
Descriptors: Community Action, Community Change, Community Cooperation, Community Development

Hughey, Joseph B. – Journal of Rural Community Psychology, 1986
Examines change in attitude toward community and descriptions of neighborhood environments of 217 residents of rural host community for a nuclear power plant. Finds negative attitude change and less positive descriptions of neighborhoods. Discusses implications for community psychology and preventive intervention. (LFL)
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Community Attitudes, Community Change, Community Psychology

Carlson, Robert V. – Research in Rural Education, 1990
Reversing two decades of school-community turmoil, Valley View--a small, rural community in northeastern Vermont--approved a bond issue for school construction. This case study uses organizational and systems theory to examine structural, political, symbolic, and human resource influences on changing community attitudes. Contains 19 references.…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Bond Issues, Case Studies, Change Agents
Moore, Linda R. – Equity and Choice, 1993
Changes in national demographics have altered how we define community. The community may be a geographic area of home life, a place for coming together voluntarily, or an association of people with similar interests and values. New communities must develop their own infrastructures and capacities for sustaining themselves. (SLD)
Descriptors: Community Change, Community Characteristics, Community Development, Community Relations

Hagan, Jacqueline Maria; Baker, Susan Gonzalez – International Migration Review, 1993
Results of two longitudinal studies in a southwestern city suggest that local interpretations of the legalization program of the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act affected program outcomes by expanding the scope of the program beyond the participation rate projected by national policymakers. (SLD)
Descriptors: Agency Role, Community Change, Community Influence, Family Influence
Thacheen, Piyaporn; Lauzon, Allan C. – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2006
Rural areas in both developed and developing countries are being increasingly marginalized through structural changes. Furthermore, the disinvestment in state-provided supports and services means that rural people are left to their own devices to cope with these changes. Numerous authors argue that the most effective way of dealing with these…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Forestry, Rural Development, Case Studies