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Education Canada, 2012
Dorothy Negropontes was a key player in the creation of the Community Learning Campus (CLC), an innovative collaboration of education and community leaders in Olds, Alberta. A former Assistant Superintendent with Chinook's Edge School District, she co-chaired the steering committee that developed the project, served as its executive director…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Community Leaders, Sustainability, School Community Programs
Morency, Marc-A. – 1968
To promote popular participation as a means and goal of community development, the Bureau d'Amenagement de l'Est du Quebec (BAEQ) had to work within a milieu that favored traditional power structures over social participation in decision making. Phase 1 (May-September 1963) of this project was mainly a time for recruiting and training change…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Committees, Community Development, Intervention
Anderson, Gary J.; Lauwerys, Joseph A. – 1978
A history of Canada's Atlantic Institute of Education (AIE) is given, including a description of the social environment that created the need for such an institution. Educational reform programs for teacher education, special education, and counselor education sponsored by AIE are described. The central use of educational research in AIE programs…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Counselor Training, Educational Change, Educational Innovation
Lloyd, Betty-Ann; And Others – 1994
The experiences of Canadian women in adult basic education and literacy (ABEL) were examined in a national research project during which 2 contact women from each of 12 ABEL programs across Canada spend one-half day each week "researching" their program's "woman-positive" activities and the consequences of those activities for…
Descriptors: Action Research, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Change Agents
Arnold, Rick; And Others – 1991
Intended for educators, this book aims to build their skills and confidence as they educate for social change. Chapter 1 is about strategy--factors to consider before getting involved in an educational program. It discusses the importance of putting oneself as an educator into the picture and of analyzing the broader social context in which…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Change Agents, Change Strategies, Check Lists
Doris Marshall Inst. for Education and Action, Toronto (Ontario). – 1989
This manual provides materials for a 6-day workshop for immigrant women working on the issue of woman abuse; it is intended to help them do their own programs in their own language out of their own cultural context. Objectives of the course are as follows: to increase educator skills and confidence in (1) developing learning activities and using…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Battered Women, Change Agents, Change Strategies
Doris Marshall Inst. for Education and Action, Toronto (Ontario). – 1988
This manual provides materials for a 5-day course in the development of design and facilitation skills for participants. The course is intended for community educators who work in the areas of immigrant settlement, cultural interpretation, or wife assault and have responsibilities for leading group discussions or running educational programs.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Battered Women, Change Agents, Change Strategies