This research was commissioned by AONTAS-the National Adult Learning Organisation, in partnership with Irish Aid, the Irish Government's programme of assistance to developing countries. To date, a strategic focus on the integration of development education into adult learning has been missing at both State level and across the development…

Concerns the planning and development of facilities for community education. Examines the larger role of the community in the total educative process. Suggests that planners concern themselves with instruction as well as education, with the community as well as schools, with people as individuals rather than as groups, with the individual's goals…

Explores ways in which community development can be integrated into community colleges through their outreach programs, such as community services and community education. Clarifies the importance of the role of community development in community colleges and the relative ease with which it can be incorporated. (NRJ)

Argues that those activities variously called community development, organization, action, or education involve the imposition of the values and beliefs of community workers or agencies upon their clientele and that community work has a strong, albeit unintentional, manipulative or exploitative aspect. (SK)

The author discusses the concepts of community most appropriate to adult education, integrating various theoretical perspectives. He presents a conceptual typology of three dimensions of community practice: adult education for the community, adult education in the community, and adult education of the community. (Author/SK)

The Community Learning Centers are adult education centers deliberately placed in the more remote areas. Using video as a medium, they offer people the opportunity to communicate among themselves and with the larger centers of decision making. (Author/BD)

Locus of control within the community was the most important factor in the success of community education in an inner-city neighborhood. Influences on locus of control were individual readiness to assume leadership, processes that allowed lifelong learning to flourish, and the presence of leadership characteristics among community service…

Focuses on the development of a community computing network in an Atlanta, Georgia neighborhood. Aims to help a community use information technologies to enhance more effectively the life of the community. Focuses on the necessity of designing community networks that both recognize the productive power and expertise of community residents as well…

The Spotlight on Hulme Project in Manchester, England, is a group of local people aiming to preserve local history and monitor future community development. It illustrates the benefits of adult learning through collaboration and the need to maintain democracy and self-determination in adult and community education. (SK)

A reading campaign among Palestinians combined learning with community building at the level of personal and community abilities, values, and beliefs. The project created long-lasting change by combining local resources and fostering the ability to work cooperatively and solve problems collectively. (SK)

This study focusses on finding out how leaders in three small communities view Extension. The results show that community leaders see the importance of Extension primarily as it contributes to the economic development of their communities. The author discusses implication for Extension and outlines some strategies for working with community…

Identifies three stages in Black community development: education, planning, and implementation. Reports on a study which explored Black citizen involvement in each stage. Found participation in planning and implementation to be positively influenced by household income and occupation, though education (sense of community) was negatively related…

Describes activities undertaken by a team of science educators in a fishing community in the Philippines to link science education in the schools to the home and community by involving parents in science-related activities, enriching elementary school level science, and raising the level of scientific consciousness in the community. (CS)

Describes experimental village institutes whose goal was to develop and maintain the village, to help transform it into a modern village so that Turkey's pattern of development would not follow the European model of urbanization. (Author/IRT)