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Download full textEsteva, Gustavo; And Others – 1980
Diverse aspects of rural problems and the social organization of Mexican labor are explored in this summary of Mexican rural history. Achnowledging Mexico's rich, unexhausted, and unexplored natural resources, Mexico is described as a poverty-stricken, hungry nation, with high degrees of malnutrition, deprivation, and illiteracy heavily…
Descriptors: Agricultural Production, Conflict, Cultural Pluralism, Farmers
Nelson, Margaret K.; Smith, Joan – 1999
This book reports on the effects of economic restructuring on the livelihood of working families in a rural Vermont county. Specifically, a study investigated family strategies to ensure and enhance daily survival including gainful employment (informal and formal), moonlighting, self-provisioning efforts, and non-monetary exchanges with other…
Descriptors: Economic Change, Economic Factors, Employment Patterns, Family Life
Alarcon, Hernando Bernal – 1978
Educacion Fundamental Integral (EFI) is an educational process which aims to help Colombia's rural population to improve their living conditions. EFI adapts to the concrete circumstances of the person in his own environment. Objectives of EFI are to make the rural people: responsible for the work necessary for their own development; work together;…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Attitude Change, Change Strategies, Daily Living Skills
Johnson, Nan E., Ed.; Wang, Ching-li, Ed. – 1997
This book includes studies of globalization-related social changes in rural areas of the United States and other countries and implications of these studies for sociological theory. Although no chapter focuses exclusively on education, education-related themes include rural school dropouts and intergenerational poverty, the migration of rural…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Employment Patterns, Farmers, Foreign Countries
Mauch, Werner, Ed.; Papen, Uta, Ed. – 1997
This book highlights examples of innovative educational practices in the field of organized adult learning. Fifteen chapters present outcomes of collective research in the Innovations in Nonformal and Adult Education (INNAE) project. "Common Learning--Collective Research: Innovating Adult Education" (Werner Mauch, Uta Papen) describes the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Learning, Adult Programs
Bhola, H. S. – 1982
A manual for trainers of development workers and change agents in the third world provides guidelines for evaluation of development training programs. Chapters define evaluation, present a general model of development, and discuss evaluation in development training programs. Designing training systems for development workers and change agents,…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Community Development, Data Analysis, Data Collection
Smith, Eldon D.; And Others – 1978
Research literature bearing on factors related to industrialization in rural areas is reviewed in order to identify information that might be useful in improving cost-effectiveness of public programs at local, state, and national levels as well as of private action taken by voluntary organizations in an effort to increase manufacturing employment…
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, Community Action, Educational Policy, Employment Potential
Auret, Diana – 2000
This book documents the history, successes, and failures of Save the Children's farmworker program in Zimbabwe, 1981-98. The report explores workers' past and present living and working conditions on commercial farms and describes how the program promoted a progression from workers with a migrant mentality to the building of functional…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Access to Health Care, Adult Basic Education, Agricultural Laborers
DeYoung, Alan J. – 1991
This monograph draws on case studies of school-community partnership projects in four rural southeastern school districts in order to elaborate a thorough description of school contextual factors in the rural Southeast. In 1986, Appalachia Educational Labaoratory (AEL), one of nine federally funded research and development laboratories, received…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Context Effect, Economic Factors, Economically Disadvantaged
Rosenfeld, Stuart A. – 1992
In the past, economic development in the rural United States, particularly in the rural South, relied principally on the attractiveness of a low-wage work force to mass-production manufacturing industries. Now however, the viability of the traditional mass-production economy's organizational structure and operating procedures has been eroded by…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Change Strategies, Educational Attainment, Elementary Secondary Education
Fordham, Paul, Ed. – 1980
The six-chapter book highlights the main issues and findings of the 1979 New Delhi Conference on Non-formal Education for Development. Chapter 1 defines non-formal education, discusses development needs, and discusses motivation at the political, operational, and participatory level. Chapter 1 includes two case studies of non-formal education in…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Agency Cooperation, Case Studies, Change Strategies
Gibbs, Robert M., Ed.; Swaim, Paul L., Ed.; Teixeira, Ruy, Ed. – 1998
This book examines the education, training, and skill supply of the rural workforce; the role of rural workforce quality in rural development; and the barriers that prevent many rural people from obtaining the skills needed for good jobs. Data are drawn from large national surveys of schools, students, and households. The first three chapters…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Literacy, Dropouts, Education Work Relationship
Beaulieu, Lionel J., Ed.; Mulkey, David, Ed. – 1995
This book provides an overview of existing human resource conditions in rural America; examines key economic, social, and technological forces shaping the future viability of rural areas; describes human capital issues for rural women and minority groups; and outlines strategies to strengthen rural human capital resources. Chapters are: (1)…
Descriptors: Community Development, Economic Change, Economic Development, Education Work Relationship
Fitzsimmons, Stephen J.; Freedman, Abby J. – 1981
The study documents what happened in 10 rural communities when a federal educational funding program (Experimental Schools) in 1972 provided 5-year grants for demonstration projects designed both to improve the school system and, through the schools, to address a variety of community needs. The study employs two strategies to document the ways in…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Change Strategies, Community Attitudes, Community Change
Knox, Alan B. – 1993
This book shows leaders in adult and continuing education how to use the principles of strategic planning and cooperative leadership to strengthen and improve programs. Chapter 1 covers why it is important to strengthen agency planning and impact and how a comparative perspective can help agency leaders improve contextual analysis and recognize…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Agency Cooperation, Agency Role
