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Alsop, Steve; Ames, Patricia; Arroyo, Graciela Cordero; Dippo, Don – International Review of Education, 2010
This article explores distinctive features of a 5-year international education development project set in rural northern Peru (PROMEB, the "Proyecto de Mejoramiento de la Educacion Basica"). Grounded within a partnership between teacher educators from Peru, Mexico and Canada, and rural Peruvian teachers, students and their communities,…
Descriptors: Community Development, International Education, Demonstration Programs, Foreign Countries
Long, Huey B., Ed.; And Others – 1973
Six approaches to community development are presented by several authors in this booklet. Chapter 1 presents an introduction to the community development concept. In chapter 2, L. J. Cary emphasizes three distinctive features of the community approach: (1) popular or broad-based participation, (2) community as an important concept, and (3) the…
Descriptors: Community, Community Development, Community Education, Community Involvement
Hone, Karen A. – 1984
This inventory of model programs in rural postsecondary education is part of a larger project to provide current research and resource information to rural educators and policy makers. The inventory is illustrative--not comprehensive or exhaustive--and results from mailing 805 survey instruments which elicited 251 responses and 183 candidates for…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Programs, Community Colleges
Bhola, H. S. – 1977
A comprehensive and adaptable system of organizational arrangements is proposed in this document that will enable educational planners in Latin American countries to develop and deliver learning resources for community education and community action programs. A three-tier system of learning resources centers for community education is described.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Action, Community Change, Community Characteristics