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Shapiro, Nancy Larson – Teachers and Writers Magazine, 1981
Presents excerpts from interviews with Zella Jackson, Title I Coordinator in New York City's Community School District 5, Central Harlem. Offers a glimpse of one perspective on life in Harlem, particularly its educational environment. (RL)
Descriptors: Black Community, Community Development, Educational Attitudes, Educational Development
Peer reviewedBoyer, Paul – Tribal College: Journal of American Indian Higher Education, 1989
Traces increases in Indian-controlled economic development, community health, and cultural programs on reservations, highlighting the role of tribal colleges. Discusses Indian education's prior goals of complete submersion in White culture and separation of students from their heritage/language. Considers ways this legacy persists. Highlights…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indian Reservations, American Indians, College Role
Download full textBown, Lalage – 1995
A conviction that democracy required for its citizens access to knowledge and to habits of critical thought has been recognized as a driving dynamic behind educators such as Albert Mansbridge. Britons must reshape their vision for the turn of the millennium, but they need to draw on their inheritance, on the understanding of their predecessors…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Community Development
Van Leuven, Patricia O'Brien – 1989
Background information and recommendations related to the support of child care services in Fort Wayne, Indiana is presented in six chapters. Chapter I discusses the feminization of the workforce and demographic data bearing on the need for child care, the child care workforce, and child care arrangements. Chapter II reviews child care services in…
Descriptors: Background, Community Characteristics, Community Development, Day Care
Illinois Community Coll. Trustees Association, Springfield. – 1981
This six-part report is the result of a 1980-81 study by the Illinois Community College Trustees Association of the fundamental questions that underlie the common educational enterprise of the community college system. It seeks to provide community college trustees and state policy-makers with guidelines for governing and planning higher education…
Descriptors: College Administration, College Planning, College Role, Community Colleges
Irish National Association of Adult Education, Dublin. – 2000
Ireland's economic and social problems in the 1980s spawned a new kind of community education. Key characteristics of the new community education are as follows: (1) it is a learning environment and located in the community; (2) it provides learning programs based on identified needs; (3) its control remains in the local community's hands; (4) its…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Agency Role
Gray, Fred, Ed. – 2002
This document contains 12 papers about lifelong learning in rural communities in Great Britain. The papers, which are intended for lecturers, tutors, and guidance professionals but may also prove useful to organizations providing lifelong learning and policymakers, include conceptual tools as well as empirical case studies documenting lifelong…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Programs
