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Thomson, Cathie – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 1991
The recommendations of Scotland's 1975 Alexander Report for increasing adult education participation and Tom Lovett's development of a social action model with working class adults in Liverpool and Ireland are used as background to an examination of Scottish projects that use a community work approach to involve nonparticipating adults in…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Control, Community Development, Community Organizations
Baker, Paula C.; And Others – 1981
This bibliography was compiled to provide scholars and practitioners with a comprehensive listing of materials related to urban neighborhoods as social, political, or economic units. The bibliography contains more than 200 citations of materials published in the late 70s and 1980. Each entry is accompanied by a summary and content codes which…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Community Change, Community Characteristics, Community Control
Hamilton, Edwin – 1992
This book is directed at the following audiences: adult educators and others who are either involved in or desire to become involved in community-based work; students of education, the social sciences, or related disciplines who desire information on community involvement as a career or means of fulfilling civic responsibilities, and persons in…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Change Strategies, Citizen Participation
Allen, John C.; Dillman, Don A. – 1994
This book explores how community functions in "Bremer," a small rural town in eastern Washington. Human interactions in a variety of contexts are analyzed within a framework that posits three distinct eras of social and economic organization: community-control, mass-society, and information eras. Contexts examined are farming (the…
Descriptors: Agriculture, Citizen Participation, Community Action, Community Control
Lipka, Jerry; Willer, Cristy – 1985
This combined teacher guide and student text is written with the broad goal of involving high school students in Bristol Bay, Alaska, in the planning and design of their region's future. Unit I introduces changes occurring on village and regional levels, discusses planning strategies for community development, and presents village profiles for…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, American Indian Education, American Indians, Business
Aspen Systems Corp., Germantown, MD. – 1981
This Project SHARE bibliography lists 43 documents that are representative of the literature concerning the effects of neighborhood consensus on human services delivery. It is divided into three sections: abstracts, an alphabetical list of personal or corporate authors, and a title index. The abstracts are preceded by citation data to aid in…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Administrator Guides, Annotated Bibliographies, Community Control