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Armstrong, R.; Davies, C. T. – Community Development Journal, 1975
Urban community development has often become indistinguishable from community organization; other-direction, bureaucratic control, and lack of real community have diluted the original emphasis on activity-learning and attitude-changing. Consideration of the authors' categories (out-of-school, formal, non-formal, and informal education) might help…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Community Development, Community Education
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Powell, J. P. – Community Development Journal, 1975
The author encountered many obstacles to Papua New Guinea's transformation from a subsistence to a cash economy during two months' field work: the people's conservatism, lack of confidence, indifference to cash, and deep commitment to tradition. These, and "subsistence affluence," warn against hastily exposing the people to inflation's…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Community Attitudes, Cultural Influences, Developing Nations