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Progressive Education, Developing Countries, and Cultural Deprivation
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Watras, Joseph – American Educational History Journal, 2015
This essay will discuss two educational programs to improve the living conditions of students from low income families that Pedro T. Orata conducted during the middle years of the twentieth century. The question this paper will investigate is whether Orata considered the people he was trying to help as being trapped by the conditions of poverty to…
Descriptors: Progressive Education, Developing Nations, Poverty, Educational History
A Human Development Model at the Community Level.
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Jewell, Dorothea M.; Robertson, Bruce William – Journal for Specialists in Group Work, 1988
Traces one program's history in facilitating grassroots community development. Focuses specifically on group methods by which indigenous peoples can carry out their own developments to relieve the effects of poverty. Discusses effective social, economic, and cultural development. (Author/NB)
Descriptors: Community Action, History, Indigenous Populations, Models
The Katha School: Where Learning Matters
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Hanzelka, Richard – Educational Leadership, 2007
During its trip to India in 2006, the ASCD Board of Directors visited the Katha School, which is located in a high-poverty section of Delhi. The Katha School began in 1989 with five students. It now houses 1,450 students, with hundreds on a list waiting to get in. Part of the Kalpavriksham Centre for Sustainable Learning, the school is the main…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Self Help Programs, National Curriculum, Learning Centers (Classroom)
A Black Self-Help Development Program.
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Boxill, Nancy A.; Beverly, Creigs C. – Social Policy, 1986
Outlines data on the socioeconomic, health, and educational status of Blacks in Georgia. Calls for the maximization of internal resources for internal development, self-sufficiency, and self-determination. (GC)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Community, Black Family, Black Youth
Work and Welfare. Hearings on Reviewing the Extent of Long-Term Poverty and Dependence, Focusing on Job Training and Employment Services Provided by the Government before the Committee on Labor and Human Resources. United States Senate, One Hundredth Congress, First Session (January 21, February 3-4, 1987).
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Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. – 1987
The poverty rate in America has increased during the Reagan Administration. Real welfare benefits have fallen sharply and people with jobs have been disqualified from government assistance. Using lessons from the public and private sectors, legislators are attempting to change the regulations of public assistance and welfare work programs to…
Descriptors: Hearings, Incentives, Job Training, Labor Force
Development and Gender in Guatemala.
Cruz, Rosamaria – Grassroots Development, 2003
In recent decades, rural Mayan women in Guatemala have been working to overcome long-standing disadvantages: illiteracy, poverty, lack of basic community services, and lack of respect for women's abilities and contributions. Profiles of 10 Mayan women describe their educational experiences and their community development work, particularly in the…
Descriptors: Community Development, Community Health Services, Entrepreneurship, Foreign Countries
The IAF's Argentine Grantees: Caught in the Crisis. Indigenous Awakening; Self-Help and the Cities; Storm Clouds and Hope on the Pampa.
Durbin, Paula – Grassroots Development, 2003
Examines how Inter-American Foundation's grantees in Argentina are coping with the country's economic crisis of 2001. Describes community development projects in Indigenous regions, the role of urban schools as the only functioning public institution providing human services, literacy education in Patagonia, job training and support for…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Community Development, Economic Climate, Entrepreneurship
Special Issue: Productive Employment for the Poor.
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Gaude, Jacques, Ed.; Miller, Steven, Ed. – International Labour Review, 1992
This special issue contains nine articles on labor-intensive public works, social investment funds, rural infrastructure projects, grassroots socioeconomic rights, remuneration systems for self-help projects, road construction and rural transport, employment and environmental rehabilitation, and water as a source of employment. (SK)
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Conservation (Environment), Developing Nations, Economic Change