This document aims at providing a framework for describing the community development educator's role, functions, and environment. The text includes discussion of some human factors which are found in all communities and which influence decision making. Attention is directed also to the educator's performance and practices, as well as to techniques…

This text is intended as a basis for community development educators to increase their understanding of the elements of community development, assess systematically the strengths and weaknesses of a community development situation, examine one approach to community development education and the principles from which it grew, and gain confidence in…