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Martinez-Brawley, Emilia E. – Community Development Journal, 1981
A study was conducted to determine whether the tenets of rural social work were applicable only to the developing countries or whether they were also meaningful in the context of other industrial nations of the West. (CT)
Descriptors: Community Organizations, Political Influences, Rural Development, Social Change
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Hope, Kempe R. – Community Development Journal, 1980
Examines the perspectives and dimensions of social change and community development in rural United States. Argues that the causes of poverty must be reconceptualized, and emphasis placed on long-range institutionalized programs of community services, training, and citizen participation. (SK)
Descriptors: Community Development, Dropouts, Long Range Planning, Poverty
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Miller, Chris; And Others – Community Development Journal, 1990
Includes "Community Work in the U.K.: Reflections on the 1980s" (Miller, Bryant); "Multiplication and Divisions: Trends in Community Development in Ireland since the 1960s" (Cinneide, Walsh); "Reconstruction to Deconstruction: The Transformation of Community Work in Australia" (Meekosha; Mowbray): "Community…
Descriptors: Community Action, Community Development, Cultural Pluralism, Feminism
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Byram, Martin; Kidd, Ross – Community Development Journal, 1978
Nonformal educators in Botswana have shown that the performing arts, "popular" or "folk" theater, can play an important role in community education but that problems must be resolved to achieve progressive social change. (MF)
Descriptors: Change Agents, Community Action, Community Education, Developing Nations