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Dyson, William A. – 1981
This discussion focuses on problems facing developing and developed nations and describes social changes required to meet human needs in the economic condition of scarcity facing industrializing and postindustrial societies. Current problems of developed societies are emphasized. For example, traditional health care provision in western societies…
Descriptors: Community Development, Developed Nations, Developing Nations, Economic Factors
Martin, Ian; Shaw, Mae – 2001
An analysis of community development in British state policy during the post-war period identifies these four discourses of citizenship implicit within successive phases of policy development: social democracy and the problem of the inactive citizen; structuralist critique and the problem of citizen action; marketization and the problem of citizen…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Citizenship, Citizenship Education, Citizenship Responsibility
Adult, Community, and Further Education Board, Melbourne (Australia). – 2001
This document outlines a vision for adult and community education (ACE) in Victoria for the next 3 years and provides a broad map of how to reach that vision. A description of the context is followed by the ACE vision statement: ACE delivers accessible, quality, and timely learning in autonomous, community settings as a valued and essential…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Development, Community Education, Developed Nations
ASPBAE Courier, 1986
This journal issue contains a series of papers concerned with exploring the role that adult education can play in developing communities. The first paper, "Major Challenges and Prospect of Adult Education for the Year 2000" (T. M. Sakya), provides an overview of adult education in Asia and the Pacific, emphasizing the vastness of the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs
Sharma, Satish; Anstey, Eleanor – 1981
Using the perspective of sociology and social welfare, the report focuses on issues and concerns by considering the concepts and underpinnings of personal development, social development, community development, women's issues, rural social welfare, and self-help. Contexts are the social development and social welfare of total societies as well as…
Descriptors: Community Action, Community Development, Comparative Analysis, Developed Nations
2002
To become one of the world's most innovative countries, Canada requires a national innovation strategy for the 21st century. It is progressing toward a more innovative economy, but lags behind many developed countries in terms of overall innovation performance. A national innovation strategy to meet Canada's innovation challenge proposes goals,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adoption (Ideas), Adult Education, Community Development
Plane, Karen – 2001
In a competitive market training economy, vocational education and training (VET) and small business in Australia face a number of challenges. They need to qualify the extent of lifelong learning skills being used in the small firm workplace, define the range of learning partnerships both within VET and the wider informal learning community in…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Development, Community Involvement, Community Programs
2003
This publication captures the thoughts, suggestions, and concerns Canadians expressed through an engagement process on behalf of the Government of Canada to animate discussion on Canada's innovation and learning challenges. The chapters provide summaries of what different groups had to say in relation to these key challenge areas and themes set…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Adult Education, Attitudes, Business
Conference Board of Canada, Ottawa (Ontario). – 2003
This report provides a summary of the objectives, proceedings, and major outcomes of a summit meeting of over 500 leaders from across Canada convened to validate and prioritize strategic recommendations from an innovation and learning engagement process and to discuss key challenges to realization of Canada's vision to become one of the most…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Adult Education, Business, Citizen Participation
Tett, Lyn – 2001
A study examined the ways a group of people experiencing poverty, poor housing, and stress assessed the impact of these factors on their health through participating in a course called "Health Issues in the Community." It involved people from a range of socioeconomically excluded areas and groups throughout Scotland in identifying and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Development, Developed Nations, Disadvantaged Environment