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Deaton, Brady J. – Growth and Change, 1975
Argument was for the importance of community development corporations (CDCs) as both tools for rural development planning and mechanisms for alleviating problems and economic impoverishment. (JC)
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Community Development, Community Involvement, Dropouts
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Rubio, Alfredo – Community Development Journal, 1978
The author reviews the "Cultural Missions Programme" of Mexico's educational reform after 1920, in which groups of teachers using Catholic missionary methods fought poverty and ignorance in rural Mexico. These mission programs embody most of the community development principles and are still needed. (MF)
Descriptors: Change Agents, Community Development, Dropouts, Educational Change
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Miller, Chris; And Others – Community Development Journal, 1990
Includes "Community Work in the U.K.: Reflections on the 1980s" (Miller, Bryant); "Multiplication and Divisions: Trends in Community Development in Ireland since the 1960s" (Cinneide, Walsh); "Reconstruction to Deconstruction: The Transformation of Community Work in Australia" (Meekosha; Mowbray): "Community…
Descriptors: Community Action, Community Development, Cultural Pluralism, Feminism
De Weaver, Norman – 1979
"Where the money is and what you'll need to do to get it," form the central theme of this citizen's guide to rural development. Designed to assist a community leader interested in implementing a development project, the guide concentrates on the sources which most frequently fund rural community development projects, i.e., the grant and…
Descriptors: Community Development, Credit (Finance), Economic Development, Federal Aid
Hyman, Drew – 1994
This paper suggests that current paradigms and world views guiding research for social action are inadequate for directing rural community change in a high-tech, global community. For several generations, the agrarian and industrial paradigms have been accepted as appropriate for guiding social change and development. However, there are problems…
Descriptors: Community Development, Cultural Influences, Industrialization, Models
Bulletin of the International Bureau of Education, 1989
Presents a bibliography on education in Africa. Topics addressed include religion and education; modernization and development, including political aspects, language policy, planning and financing, and international cooperation; education for community and rural development; education and work; demographic and environmental problems; and groups in…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Community Development, Demography, Developing Nations
Stoessiger, Rex – 1982
The study provides an overview of the Education and Local Development (ELD) projects conducted in Western Australia, Victoria, New South Wales, and Tasmania as part of the OECD/CERI (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development/Centre for Educational Research and Innovation) project. The CERI ELD project was planned to investigate: the…
Descriptors: Community Development, Cooperative Programs, Cultural Influences, Economic Development
Rogers, David L., Ed.; Whiting, Larry R., Ed. – 1976
The result of a rural development conference, this publication emphasizes the theory of rural public service planning and is addressed to middle and/or top level planners and public administrators and/or researchers concerned with the delivery of public services. The objectives of this 12-paper collection are: to review existing methods and…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Agency Cooperation, Change Strategies, Citizen Participation
Carlson, Robert V. – 1976
Rural school and human service administrators' professional development needs can be categorized as technical, interpersonal, and intrapersonal in nature. Vermont surveys have indicated that the technical skills most needed are in the areas of public relations, career education, teacher effectiveness training, community involvement, administrative…
Descriptors: Career Education, Change Strategies, Community Development, Community Involvement
Hall, Budd L. – 1975
Emphasis placed on adult education in Tanzania stems directly from the decision to bring about development through an egalitarian rural transformation. The political decision to stress socialist development with priority to those living in rural areas preceded the creation of the adult education network and shaped its structures and organization.…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Education, Adult Programs, Agency Role