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Vasi, Ion Bogdan – Social Forces, 2007
The study of the adoption of activities to protect the natural environment has tended to focus on the role of organizational fields. This article advances existing research by simultaneously examining conflicting processes that operate in nested organizational fields at local, national and supra-national levels. It examines the recent spread of an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Municipalities, Local Government, Adoption (Ideas)
Australian Association of Adult Education. – 1970
The seventeen papers following the Introductory Address by P. H. Sheats are: Literacy in Territory of Papua and New Guinea by A. Tavai; The Role of the Teacher in Community Advancement by W. Hatton; Financial Education and Community Advancement in Papua and New Guinea by E. V. Fleming; Army Education in Papua and New Guinea by R. T. Jones;…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Community Benefits, Community Development
Lo Bianco, Joseph, Ed. – 2000
The approaches to language maintenance in Australia are diverse and heterogeneous and include at least three kinds of programs: bilingual education programs; ethnic school programs (after hours or weekend programs that are controlled and managed by the community concerned); and mainstream school programs where the indigenous native language is…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Community Programs, Cultural Background, Cultural Differences
Lo Bianco, Joseph, Ed.; Wickert, Rosie, Ed. – 2001
This book presents the dynamics of language and literacy policy activism in Australia. The introduction is "Activists and Policy" (LoBianco, Wickert). Part 1, "From Policy to Anti-Policy" (LoBianco), sets a frame and overarching context of the pattern of Australian language and literacy policy. Part 2 contains accounts of how…
Descriptors: Activism, Adult Basic Education, Adult Educators, Adult Literacy