Offering lifelong and developmental learning to over 13 million students at nearly 1,200 schools, community colleges in the United States attract a student body with remarkable economic, ethnic, and cultural diversity. They provide students with skills and foundational knowledge upon which successful professional careers and rewarding personal…

Since its establishment in 2003, the Japan Council on the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD-J) has paid close attention to informal learning processes in community-based efforts to promote local sustainable development. ESD-J carried out two projects to collect information on and visualise community-based ESD practice: the…

In many areas of community development, project management, and instruction in non-school settings, a significant contribution can be made by educators from either schools or universities. (Authors/JA)

This exploratory study seeks to analyze and compare the practice of community work in The Netherlands and Israel, and the key variables shaping its character, role, and influence. The two countries are small, highly urbanized welfare democracies relying on central government financing of community and social work, and are characterized by…

A report on the Fifteenth Lake Okoboji Educational Media Leadership Conference, whose theme was "Curricula-Media Dialogue for Meeting Changing Community Needs. (LS)

The function of government departments of community development should be restricted to training personnel in understanding communities and the use of the Problem-solving" approach, and to supplying staff highly trained in social relations for work on special development schemes. The lone missionary" complex is not useful for the community…

This paper explores how to obtain community development goals while operating under the constraints of citizen participation in Federal Programs. Five references. (Author/LY)

A variety of views as to what the objectives of the newly formed Community Development Society should be is expressed in this article. Included are discussions of: (1) a viable professional organization, (2) "a mutual-benefit" association in which the primary beneficiaries are the members, (3) a motivator of learning, (4) a means of…

Summarizes the principles of asset-based community development and indicates that it is more relevant than traditional methods. Explains its characteristics and requirements and identifies critical barriers. Encourages volunteer administrators to apply current knowledge and practices to asset-based community development. (Author/JOW)

The purpose of the study was to make a qualitative assessment of the impact of school consolidation on several rural Nebraska communities that have recently lost their schools. This research uses a multiple-case study design with interviews conducted in three Nebraska communities. The data from this research fell into four broad themes: social…

Sustainable development initiatives are proliferating in the US and Europe as engineering educators seek to provide students with knowledge and skills to design technologies that are environmentally sustainable. Many such initiatives involve students from the "North," or "developed" world building projects for villages or…

This report was created in conjunction with the Association of Canadian Community College's (ACCC) review of the federal government's contribution to reducing poverty in Canada. Colleges and institutes are fundamental partners in the socio-economic infrastructure and development of their communities. Colleges deliver a comprehensive array of…