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Armstrong, R.; Davies, C. T. – Community Development Journal, 1975
Urban community development has often become indistinguishable from community organization; other-direction, bureaucratic control, and lack of real community have diluted the original emphasis on activity-learning and attitude-changing. Consideration of the authors' categories (out-of-school, formal, non-formal, and informal education) might help…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Community Development, Community Education

Higgins, Joan – Community Development Journal, 1980
Compares social reform strategies in Britain and America. Illustrates how programs in both countries had similar difficulties, including diffusion of research findings, clarification of objectives, and political manipulation of social research. (SK)
Descriptors: Action Research, Community Control, Community Development, Comparative Analysis

Loney, Martin – Community Development Journal, 1980
This comparison of antipoverty strategies in Britain (Urban Programme) and the United States (War on Poverty) highlights their similar conceptions of the nature of the problem, differences in approach and implementation, and the contrasting political cultures of American community activism and British socialism. (SK)
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Community Action, Community Control, Comparative Analysis

Atampugre, Nicholas – Community Development Journal, 1998
Compares attempts at community development in Nigeria under English and French colonialism with postcolonial grass-roots efforts up to the post-cold war era. Suggests the need to rethink the structure and role of the state in society. (SK)
Descriptors: Colonialism, Community Development, Comparative Analysis, Developing Nations