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Download full textMarcase, Michael P. – 1969
The need for school construction in urban areas is discussed, emphasizing the involvement of lay persons in the community in the planning of new buildings. Urban school construction problems and some possible solutions are considered. Discussion is included of procedures and limitations pertaining to the involvement of the community as a whole in…
Descriptors: Community Action, Community Cooperation, Community Involvement, Community Role
Lanaghan, David M. – 1973
Presented is the end of project report of the handicapped children's nature study center and outdoor education program (funded through Title III), a cooperative science/special education project serving approximately 1,000 children in the Muscatine-Scott County School System in Iowa. A 6 acre land strip bordered by a creek and a river is said to…
Descriptors: Community Role, Exceptional Child Education, Handicapped Children, Landscaping
Zwiebach, Burton – 1969
To say that community control is democratic means that such control is consistent with the ideas of the democratic tradition. Even so, participation is hampered by the "natural" apathy of people. But the fact of apathy has too little research as to its causes to be well understood; perhaps, apathy is a rational response to a society which…
Descriptors: Community Control, Community Involvement, Community Organizations, Community Role
Runyon, Joyce M. – 1971
Presented is the program development for volunteer services that are intended to expand the educational opportunities of the gifted. The program focuses on utilizing community resources and coordinating the resources with the school program. Aspects of the program discussed include: community attitudes toward the gifted in the school system that…
Descriptors: Administration, Community Resources, Community Role, Educational Opportunities
Indiana State Dept. of Mental Health, Indianapolis. Div. of Mental Retardation. – 1972
The report is said to provide a plan for meeting the total needs (educational, personal, and vocational) of the mentally retarded for both service and residential living in Indiana. The plan proposes to bring the state hospital and community closer together and to offer several options that include the natural, foster, and small group home and the…
Descriptors: Community Role, Exceptional Child Services, Guidelines, Hospitals
Head, Wilson A. – 1971
There is a recognized need for more effective access by citizens to the proliferating multitude of available community services and facilities. The starting point of such access is being aware of the services themselves. Citizens need specific information quickly and a means of discussing it in terms of their own problems. Community information…
Descriptors: Community Organizations, Community Role, Community Services, Foreign Countries
Canadian Council on Rural Development, Ottawa (Ontario). – 1972
Rural development in Canada is discussed in terms of finding a rural development strategy in this report. The prerequisites for a rural development strategy are enumerated; these prerequisites include (1) the development of an agency at the Federal level with the responsibility for defining national strategy, (2) the formulation and implementation…
Descriptors: Community Role, Demography, Educational Strategies, Information Needs
Peer reviewedDinerman, Ina R. – International Migration Review, 1978
This article provides a close-range study of conditions leading to illegal migration from a rural village in Mexico. Its primary concern is the social network of relationships and mutual obligations conditioning the decision to migrate. (Author/EB)
Descriptors: Community Development, Community Role, Employment Patterns, Family (Sociological Unit)
Hissong, Jerry B.; Winett, Sheila G. – Public Welfare, 1977
This project attempts to show that a coordinated, data based planning process for youth services can be developed and it will be effective in lessening the frustrations and alienation of young people. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Community Coordination, Community Involvement, Community Planning, Community Role
Peer reviewedJohnstone, John W. C. – Youth & Society, 1978
The results of this study suggest that the impact of the family on delinquency varies directly with the quality of the environment. (Author)
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Community Role, Delinquency, Environmental Influences
Peer reviewedNewton, Charles H., III – Journal of Career Education, 1978
Business and industry have compounded corporate isolationism by creating a laissez-faire relationship with education, according to the author, who says that career education can be an educational strategy to improve community participation as well as the quality of education. To illustrate he describes a Colorado model for community-education…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Career Education, Community Involvement, Community Role
Brenton, Myron – Today's Education, 1977
Ways are suggested in which schools, teachers, and communities can constructively deal with the problems of runaway youth. (MJB)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Community Role, Family Problems, Problem Children
Peer reviewedChaffee, Ann – Integrated Education, 1977
Provides a description of Montbello, an integrated community in Denver. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Community Attitudes, Community Characteristics, Community Involvement
Peer reviewedHill, Janet; Revell, W. Grant – American Rehabilitation, 1987
Virginia's program to build statewide consensus and participation in supported employment for the disabled from boards, service providers, counselors, parents, consumers, and the business community is described. Activities have included establishment of offices of supported employment in key agencies and establishment of five technical assistance…
Descriptors: Adults, Agency Cooperation, Community Role, Disabilities
Peer reviewedCampbell, Lloyd P.; Flake, Ann E. – Clearing House, 1985
Notes the rising number of latchkey children and describes several after-school programs designed to meet their special needs. (FL)
Descriptors: Community Role, Elementary Education, Employed Parents, Parent Role
