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The Value of Local Knowledge and the Importance of Shifting Beliefs in the Process of Social Change.
Peer reviewedFussell, Weyman – Community Development Journal, 1996
Beliefs and values evolve within communities through daily experience. Information gained from experience is translated into knowledge through the filter of beliefs and values. Community development facilitators should add their knowledge base to the community's to produce new knowledge and a synthesis of new cultural habits. (SK)
Descriptors: Beliefs, Community Attitudes, Community Development, Constructivism (Learning)
Peer reviewedLewis, Arnold – Community Development Journal, 1980
The author discusses ritual as a process of creating social frameworks through the mobilization of communal sentiment and purpose. He presents a case study in which the ritual process was applied by an external change agent to develop social partnerships and local support for the establishment of a community center. (SK)
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Community Centers, Community Development, Community Involvement
