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Kramer, Ralph M. – 1970
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…
Descriptors: Community Development, Comparative Analysis, Research
Cochran, Lee W.; Cochran, Lida – Audiovisual Instr, 1969
A report on the Fifteenth Lake Okoboji Educational Media Leadership Conference, whose theme was "Curricula-Media Dialogue for Meeting Changing Community Needs. (LS)
Descriptors: Community Development, Conferences, Educational Media
Oxenham, J. C. P. – Community Develop J, 1970
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…
Descriptors: Community Development, Government Employees, Training

Wireman, Peggy – Journal of the Community Development Society, 1970
This paper explores how to obtain community development goals while operating under the constraints of citizen participation in Federal Programs. Five references. (Author/LY)
Descriptors: Community Development, Federal Programs, Participation
J Community Develop Soc, 1970
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…
Descriptors: Community Development, Objectives, Professional Associations
Riches, Graham – Community Develop J, 1969
Descriptors: Agencies, Community Development, Developing Nations
Botting, J. H. A. – Community Develop J, 1969
Descriptors: Community Development, Developing Nations, Food

Bohach, Adrian – Journal of Volunteer Administration, 1997
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)
Descriptors: Administrators, Community Development, Models, Volunteers
Githens, Rod P. – Online Submission, 2007
Critical approaches to HRD do not focus solely on improving organizational performance; instead, they address previously undiscussable issues such as power, politics, class, sexism, racism, and heterosexism. Since critical HRD often seeks to raise problems instead of solve them immediately, it is sometimes criticized for being elitist and detached…
Descriptors: Action Research, Gender Bias, Labor Force Development, Adult Education
Boyd, Neil M.; Bright, David S. – Journal of Community Psychology, 2007
In this article, the authors highlight the potential for rethinking approaches to community and social change interventions that draw on participatory action research at the organizational and community level. They distinguish problem-centric from opportunity-centric approaches to social change. Theory on social norms suggests that problem-centric…
Descriptors: Action Research, Participatory Research, Psychology, Inquiry
Axelroth, Rita – Coalition for Community Schools, 2009
A community school is a place and a set of partnerships between the school and community resources. The community school strategy integrates academics, health and social services, youth and community development, and civic engagement to improve student learning and to develop stronger families and healthier communities. This report presents a…
Descriptors: Community Development, Community Schools, Dropout Rate, Academic Achievement
Gilbert, Jess – Rural Sociology, 2009
A pervasive anti-statism often blinds us to the democratic victories in the past and thus to possibilities in our future. This article argues that big government can democratize society and uses historical investigation to make the point. The study of history emancipates us from the tyranny of the present. Progressive social change has come about…
Descriptors: Community Development, United States History, Action Research, Democracy
Ball, Jessica – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2009
This article offers an original review of research and reports about young Indigenous children's language development needs and approaches to meeting them. The review addresses not only children's acquisition of an Indigenous language but also their acquisition of other languages (e.g., English and French), because their progress in one linguistic…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Community Development, Residential Schools, Academic Failure
Taylor, Henry Louis, Jr.; McGlynn, Linda Greenough – New Directions for Youth Development, 2009
Universities, because of their vast human and fiscal resources, can play the central role in assisting in the development of school-centered community development programs that make youth development their top priority. The Futures Academy, a K-8 public school in the Fruit Belt, an inner-city neighborhood in Buffalo, New York, offers a useful…
Descriptors: Community Development, Youth Programs, Educational Opportunities, Educational Change
Vidovich, Lesley – International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives, 2008
In this article, research assessment in Singapore's higher education sector is viewed as part of the broader trend towards changing educational accountabilities in a context of globalisation. However, while on the one hand, recent Singaporean policies resonate with a neo-liberal market ideology where accountability policies are designed to enhance…
Descriptors: Productivity, Community Development, Higher Education, Foreign Countries