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Nabben, Robert – Australian Journal of Adult and Community Education, 1995
Community workers should leave training with a foundation for liberatory practice. Their educational experience should be consistent with the rhetoric of community development; it should use learner-centered methods and transformative learning, and provide conditions in which learners can create their own knowledge. (SK)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Development, Community Organizations, Educational Practices
Wagner, Delmer – Momentum, 1999
Tries to encourage teachers, principals, and others to strive to achieve authentic practices of teacher leadership and community building. Narrates the efforts of St. Patrick School in Swift Current, Saskatchewan, Canada since 1996 to build a collaborative culture based on trust and good will so that the entire staff was transformed into a team of…
Descriptors: Community Development, Educational Change, Educational Practices, Faculty Development
Peer reviewedCuban, Larry – Educational Researcher, 1992
Experiences of the author support the contention that professors and practitioners in education face common dilemmas, and share the practice of teaching, but are not bound by any professional community. Professional communities based on commonalities in teaching can be constructed for those in higher education and the public schools. (SLD)
Descriptors: Black Education, College School Cooperation, Community Development, Educational Practices
CBE Report, 1985
This volume contains the texts of the papers and discussions presented at a conference on community-based development. The following materials are included: "Opening Remarks" (John Zippert); "Guest Speaker Remarks" (Colman McCarthy); "Community-Based Development" (Blandina Cardenas Ramirez); "Community-Based Colleges" (panel discussions moderated…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Change Strategies, Citizen Participation
Download full textIrish 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
