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Peer reviewedMenahem, Gila; Spiro, Shimon – Community Development Journal, 1989
Discusses the functions that residential areas fulfill for their inhabitants, particularly the issues of school integration and rehabilitation of distressed neighborhoods. (JOW)
Descriptors: Community Role, Neighborhood Improvement, Neighborhoods, School Desegregation
Peer reviewedKeough, Noel – Community Development Journal, 1998
Principles for participatory community development are as follows: humility and respect; power of local knowledge; democratic practice; diverse ways of knowing; sustainability; reality before theory; uncertainty; relativity of time and efficiency; holistic approach; and decisions rooted in the community. (SK)
Descriptors: Community Development, Community Involvement, Community Role, Decision Making
Peer reviewedFeuerstein, Marie-Therese; Lovel, Hermione – Community Development Journal, 1989
Examines both positive and negative community issues and community responses to the epidemic caused by the human immunodeficiency virus. (JOW)
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Adult Education, Community Responsibility, Community Role
Peer reviewedLockhart, George; Vigilante, Joseph L. – Community Development Journal, 1974
The article describes the contributions of social work in two areas, in grass roots community organization and in social planning. As a partial response to the growing connection between the two areas, the writers have attempted to adapt the community organization curriculum of a professional school of social work. (Author/AG)
Descriptors: Community Development, Community Involvement, Community Relations, Community Role
Peer reviewedDarby, John P.; Morris, Geoffrey – Community Development Journal, 1975
The principles and practice of community development offer a means of bridging the gap between agencies, planners, researchers, and communities. Community development involves an educational strategy of raising the levels of local awareness and increases the confidence and ability of community groups to identify and solve their own problems.…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Community Development, Community Involvement, Community Role
