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Peer reviewedPagano, Alicia I. – Childhood Education, 1986
Describes two educational programs in West Africa: a (LOGO) computer education program in Senegal, and a "self-improvement" community education program in The Gambia. While these two programs are diverse in geographic location, population, and curriculum materials, both are action-oriented, learner controlled, and consider the learner's…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Children, Community Education
Download full textNorth Central Regional Center for Rural Development, Ames, IA. – 1998
A combined report of the four Regional Rural Development Centers (RRDCs) and their partners focuses on selected outreach and research activities, projects, and accomplishments in fiscal year 1997. The report is organized around five topics identified as key issues for the mid 1990s: (1) improving economic competitiveness, diversity, and…
Descriptors: Community Development, Economic Development, Economically Disadvantaged, Natural Resources
Peer reviewedGaude, Jacques, Ed.; Miller, Steven, Ed. – International Labour Review, 1992
This special issue contains nine articles on labor-intensive public works, social investment funds, rural infrastructure projects, grassroots socioeconomic rights, remuneration systems for self-help projects, road construction and rural transport, employment and environmental rehabilitation, and water as a source of employment. (SK)
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Conservation (Environment), Developing Nations, Economic Change
Horner, Bill; O'Neill, John – Human Services in the Rural Environment, 1981
Discusses contextual factors (geography, community idiosyncrasies, personal relationships, formal resource scarcity, community resource accessibility, external force influence, visibility, "Jack-of-All-Trades") affecting practices of rural child welfare workers. Points out similarities/differences in child welfare work in urban and rural…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Child Welfare, Community Characteristics, Community Resources
Peer reviewedTsey, Komla; Patterson, David; Whiteside, Mary; Baird, Leslie; Baird, Bradley – Australian Journal of Rural Health, 2002
A participatory action research process was used to support an Aboriginal men's group in Queensland (Australia). Using a reflective approach, the men's group defined principles and values to which they aspired, then identified four strategies to enable them to become constructive members of the community: personal development, employment,…
Descriptors: Aboriginal Australians, Action Research, Community Development, Cultural Education
Kotler, Martin; And Others – 1986
Self-help among low-income people is vitally important. In no area is self-help more important than in overcoming poverty's burdens and energizing the escape from poverty. This document comprises an inventory of self-help and mutual-help programs that feature active involvement of members of the low-income population. The programs in this…
Descriptors: Adoption, Adult Programs, Business, Children
