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| Community Development Journal | 9 |
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| Ledwith, Margaret | 1 |
| McKinney, Edward A. | 1 |
| Rubio, Alfredo | 1 |
| Sarwono, Sarlito Wirawan | 1 |
| Wolf, John | 1 |
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Peer reviewedLedwith, Margaret – Community Development Journal, 2001
Community work is critical pedagogy because it is located at the interface of liberation and domination. Community workers are situated either as perpetuators of the status quo or as agents of transformative change. (Contains 29 references.) (SK)
Descriptors: Change Agents, Community Change, Community Development, Community Organizations
Peer reviewedBaumann, F. G. – Community Development Journal, 1970
Descriptors: Change Agents, Community Development, Developing Nations, Expenditures
Peer reviewedCruikshank, Jane – Community Development Journal, 1994
Interviews with 27 "outsider" community development workers explored such issues as who benefits from outsider intervention, raising unrealistic expectations, and differing levels of risk. Workers must be aware of their considerable power (information, connections, and expertise) and the values that shape their use of it. (SK)
Descriptors: Change Agents, Community Development, Expectation, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedWolf, John – Community Development Journal, 1992
Development agents need to examine their assumptions, motivations, neutrality, and terminology, which is often imprecise and misleading. The combined cooperativist and constructivist approach has proved successful in overcoming these problems. (SK)
Descriptors: Change Agents, Community Development, Cooperation, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedHayes, Susan E. – Community Development Journal, 1981
Attempts to discover how and why community development has been used in the past, and to formulate some ideas on prospects for community development in the future. (CT)
Descriptors: Change Agents, Citizen Participation, Community Development, Developing Nations
Peer reviewedCommunity Development Journal, 1971
A report by the Regional and Community Development Section of the United Nations which states that community development has to give close attention to the strategy and tactics it considers using and the time needed to realize its goals. (Author/DR)
Descriptors: Change Agents, Community Development, Community Involvement, Community Leaders
Peer reviewedMcKinney, Edward A. – Community Development Journal, 1980
This paper describes an education project to train religious leaders in Cleveland's inner city to become community advocates and change agents. Includes results of a followup survey of participants indicating how their acquired skills are benefitting the community. (SK)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Change Agents, Clergy, Community Action
Peer reviewedRubio, Alfredo – Community Development Journal, 1978
The author reviews the "Cultural Missions Programme" of Mexico's educational reform after 1920, in which groups of teachers using Catholic missionary methods fought poverty and ignorance in rural Mexico. These mission programs embody most of the community development principles and are still needed. (MF)
Descriptors: Change Agents, Community Development, Dropouts, Educational Change
Peer reviewedSarwono, Sarlito Wirawan – Community Development Journal, 1975
The author describes an Indonesian program for village development: graduate students in any discipline at State universities must spend six months working at community development in a village in order to receive their master's degrees. Results have been varied; the author raises several questions and warns against unexpected negative results.…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Community Development, Degree Requirements, Developing Nations
