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Findsen, Brian C. – 1990
A study examined the quest for social equity by one adult education institution in New Zealand. It placed social equity in the wider context of recent developments in New Zealand society and explored models for conceptualizing social change. These models included the adaptive framework, helping/coping strategies, and allocation policies. A social…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Educational Planning, Foreign Countries
DeDeo, Carrie-Anne, Ed. – Harvard Family Research Project, 2007
This issue of "The Evaluation Exchange" describes new developments in evaluating advocacy and policy change efforts that attempt to inform or influence public policy at the local, state, or federal levels. Heather B. Weiss introduces the themes in this issue in "From the Director's Desk," examining how evaluation of advocacy…
Descriptors: Social Change, Public Policy, Logical Thinking, Interaction
Chesler, Mark; And Others – 1972
The final report of a research effort, interracial and multidisciplinary in nature and designed to deal with the politics of change in professional systems, outlines a) a diagnosis of American high schools and consequent change strategies, b) its goals and objectives, c) program outcomes, and d) issues facing the Educational Change Team and others…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Change Agents, Conflict, Conflict Resolution
Gilder, Eric – 1987
Efforts to contain the spread of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) have been slowed by numerous arguing factions, political, religious, and medical, all of which perceive the AIDS epidemic through a different set of symbols. The images can be more easily understood using Kenneth Boulding's Threat, Integry, and Exchange (or TIE) model. The…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Communicable Diseases, Conflict, Current Events
ORR, JOHN B.; PULSIPHER, LYDIA – 1967
THE PRODUCT OF A CONFERENCE WHICH CONCENTRATED ON THE ISSUES OF COMPENSATORY EDUCATION IN A CULTURAL CONTEXT, THE ESSAYS IN THIS VOLUME DEAL WITH (1) THE SOCIAL-POLITICAL ASPECTS OF COMPENSATORY EDUCATION, (2) RACIAL ISOLATION AND COMPENSATORY EDUCATION, (3) THE FAMILY STRUCTURE IN LATIN AMERICAN AND NEGRO AMERICAN COMMUNITIES, (4) SOCIAL DEVIANCE…
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Blacks, Compensatory Education, Cultural Context
Ntiri, Daphne W., Ed. – 2001
This book contains four papers, each a chapter, that share in the discourse of Paulo Freire and provide varying perspectives on the ways to advance social transformation and achieve a politically literate citizenry as a democratic enterprise. The following four papers are included: "Exploring the Limits of Participatory Democracy: Prudent and…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Black Education
Nemeth, Balazs, Ed.; Poggeler, Franz, Ed. – 2002
This book, which focuses on how personality, societal values and politics have influenced the mission of adult education, contains 34 papers originally presented at a 2000 conference on the history of adult education. Following a Foreword (Poggeler) and Preface (Nemeth) the papers are: "The Globalization of Adult Education and the One World…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Agricultural Education, Andragogy