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Concrete Means and Abstract Goals: Papago Experiences in the Application of Development Resources
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Van Willigen, John – Human Organization, 1973
The extent to which resources for goal attainment in Papago communities are consistent with certain abstract goals of community development is evaluated. (NQ)
Descriptors: Community Development, Evaluation, Goal Orientation, Resource Allocation
The Relevance of Europe's New Towns for United States Urban Policy
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Huth, Mary Jo – Human Organization, 1972
Five European towns are described: Cumbernauld, Scotland; Crawley, England; Bijlmermeer, Holland; Farsta, Sweden; and Tapiola, Finland. The significance of Europe's planning experiences is considered with regard to the national urban policy in the United States. (NQ)
Descriptors: Community Development, Demography, Federal Government, Land Use
The Agency Camp Project
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Willard, William – Human Organization, 1977
An effort to re-train American Indians traditionally schooled in agriculture, the Agency Camp Development Project is aimed at strengthening local organization to carry out a training program in construction skills and development of a housing project in a new community 11 miles south of the present Sage settlement. (Author/JC)
Descriptors: Agency Role, American Indians, Community Development, Construction Programs
Volunteer Fire Departments and Community Mobilization
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Lozier, John – Human Organization, 1976
Presenting implications for a practical strategy in community development, this article deals with the exchange: within local Volunteer Fire Departments (VFD); between a VFD and its local public; between and among VFD's which compose the fire service; and between the fire service as an organized collectivity and the regional public. (JC)
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Community Development, Community Involvement, Ethnology
The Rural School as an Acculturating Institution: The Iban of Malaysia
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Seymour, J. Madison – Human Organization, 1974
Descriptors: Acculturation, Agriculture, Change Agents, Community Development
Moving Pictures as an Aid in Community Development
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Leighton, Alexander H.; And Others – Human Organization, 1972
Eight projects were filmed as part of a program of social change in a rural disintegrated neighborhood. The films were shown to local residents and to the wider community. (NQ)
Descriptors: Change Agents, Community Development, Cultural Isolation, Films
Educational Change Rural America: A Case Study.
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Clinton, Charles A. – Human Organization, 1978
Data from Shiloh County's effort to improve quality of life for its residents lead to three conclusions: political intervention can convert private sector growth into a platform for rural development, exchanges between community and schools are not difficult to understand, and the ethnographer has a function in discovering local contexts to which…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Change Agents, Community Development, Dropouts
Deviation, Demography, and Development: Differences Between Papago Indian Communities
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Feldman, Kerry D. – Human Organization, 1972
An earlier version of this paper was presented at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, New York, 1971. (FF)
Descriptors: American Indian Reservations, Anthropology, Community Characteristics, Community Development
Towards a Better Conceptualization of Rural Community Development: Empirical Findings from Nigeria.
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Okpala, Donatus C. I. – Human Organization, 1980
The paper documents and analyzes the nature of community self-help efforts in rural areas of Anambra State, Nigeria. It notes that community perceptions of development are based on a social and economic yardstick and differ from the prevailing public policy on agricultural development. (Author/SB)
Descriptors: Agriculture, Community Development, Community Planning, Developing Nations