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Wang, Qianran – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2019
This article introduces Kominkan and its practice on Japanese social education and how it facilitates Japanese adult education and lifelong learning in local communities. Historically, social education was understood as all education that promotes social development and societal progress. Kominkan, as Japanese social education institutions for…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Adult Learning, Lifelong Learning, Self Determination
Harris, William M. – 1978
Planning and the appropriate role of planners are vital elements for black community development in the South. In enhancing the community development activities of Southern black communities, planning would direct new challenges and cooperation between blacks and whites in the region. One of the challenges would be to influence directed social…
Descriptors: Black Community, Black Influences, Change Strategies, Community Development
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Scott, D. W. – Community Development Journal, 1978
The paper describes the Moss Side District Centre (MSCD), a community development project in the inner city of Manchester, England, the problems and struggles associated with it, the social consequences of the MSDC, options for social change, and the need for community action. (MF)
Descriptors: Community Action, Community Development, Community Problems, Foreign Countries
MONTMINY, J.P. – 1968
THIS REPORT, PREPARED FOR THE AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION BY CARLETON OPINION RESEARCH SERVICES, IS A CONDENSATION OF A SOCIOLOGICAL STUDY IN THE PILOT REGION OF THE BAEQ (BUREAU D'AMENAGEMENT DE L'EST DU QUEBEC). MEETINGS WERE HELD IN 1964 IN THE DIOCESES OF RIMOUSKI AND GASPE TO HELP INDUCE ROMAN CATHOLIC CLERGYMEN TO…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Catholics, Change Agents, Church Role
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Bolton, Charles K.; Lindberg, Mark E. – 1971
Community, organizational, and interpersonal conflict must be considered by those concerned with being active and effective participants in the process of planning for change in their communities. Each of these three kinds of conflict is given a section in this selected bibliography. In each section entries are listed under two headings:…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Community Change, Community Development, Community Problems
Harlacher, Ervin L. – 1972
The community college should be the catalyst to reverse the downward trend of community change. A community renewal college would serve as a change agent for the betterment of life conditions at the local level. Such a college would unite and improve the community by bringing its residents together and teaching them the attitudes, skills, and…
Descriptors: Community Change, Community Colleges, Community Development, Community Involvement
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Massie, Michael – OAH Magazine of History, 1988
Identifies the importance of studying those western frontier communities which survived several boom bust cycles. Describes several South Pass Wyoming mining towns and urges that studies such as these be used by teachers to investigate the dynamic forces which shaped their towns and cities. (KO)
Descriptors: Community Action, Community Attitudes, Community Characteristics, Community Development
Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC. Science and Education Administration. – 1980
This report describes the cooperative extension system and evaluates the consequences of its educational programs. An executive summary provides an overview of the contents: background, highlights of findings related to consequences, interpretations, and implications for the future. Following an introduction, chapter 2 discusses extension in terms…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Agriculture, Community Development
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Nyden, Philip; Wiewel, Wim – American Sociologist, 1992
Asserts that, although research can be a powerful resource in guiding and fueling grass-roots social change, the community-based research enterprise often is contentious. Recommends collaborative research studies in which the researchers and practitioners work together from the project's inception. (CFR)
Descriptors: Action Research, Change Strategies, Community Change, Community Development
Lippitt, Ronald – 1971
The three dimensions of the quality of the environment for human resource development are discussed as issues of opportunity versus deprivation, issues of growth inducing versus growth destroying interventions, and issues of utilization versus non-utilization of human resources. Both pathology and potential are illustrated by descriptions of our…
Descriptors: Community Action, Community Development, Community Education, Community Involvement