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Chan, Bill; Short, Tom – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2011
The study is situated within a national youth organisation called the Australian Air League Inc (Air League). We examine the recent progress of the Air League in South Australia, starting as a loose network of volunteers engaged in a sporadic array of activities, to become a learning community that worked collaboratively and then developed further…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Personal Narratives
Somekh, Bridget – Open University Press, 2005
This book presents a fresh view of action research as a methodology uniquely suited to researching the processes of innovation and change. Drawing on twenty-five years' experience of leading or facilitating action research projects, Bridget Somekh argues that action research can be a powerful systematic intervention, which goes beyond describing,…
Descriptors: Organizational Development, Community Development, Action Research, Research Methodology
Grubb, W. Norton; Badway, Norena; Bell, Denise; Bragg, Debra; Russman, Maxine – 1997
Focusing on nontraditional workforce, economic, and community development programs being developed within community colleges, this monograph defines these efforts as "entrepreneurial colleges" within community colleges and reviews characteristics and trends related to these efforts. Following an executive summary and introduction, the first…
Descriptors: College Role, Community Colleges, Community Development, Economic Development
Hill, Milton; Mullen, David J. – 1972
Drastic change is taking place in America today. If drastic change does indeed foster revolution then our challenge is to help bring about peaceful revolution by making those changes that give power to the powerless. Both the majority and the minority groups are presented with the challenge of developing strategies and techniques for implementing…
Descriptors: Black Community, Change Agents, Community Development, Educational Administration