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Download full textPrager, Karen – Issues in Restructuring Schools, 1993
This "issue report" contains three articles centered around the concept of "social capital", and the role of the schools in community revitalization. "Social captial" consists of organizational networks of communication and shared values that provide collective support for adults and youth in a community. In "Social Capital and the Rebuilding of…
Descriptors: Community Coordination, Community Development, Community Programs, Community Services
Blakely, Edward J. – 1999
The search for community and the development of democracy through civic participation are the binding glue of the nation. The Cooperative Extension Service was formed in recognition of that fact, and its goal was to preserve community as technical capacity increased. During the 20th century, community has been lost to cyberspace and commercialism,…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Citizenship Responsibility, Community Development, Community Relations
