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Download full textPeace Corps, Washington, DC. – 1964
Projects, operations, and future plans are covered in this annual report for the third year of the Peace Corps. An introduction comments on returning volunteers and presents regional maps with tables for Latin America, Africa, Near East and South Asia, and Far East. Section 1 contains letters and reports from volunteers in Peru, Ivory Coast,…
Descriptors: Agriculture, Annual Reports, Community Development, Cooperative Programs
Peace Corps, Washington, DC. – 1965
Projects, operations, and future plans are covered in this annual report for the fourth year of the Peace Corps. An introduction overviews successes and failures and the Conference of Returned Volunteers. Section 2 presents regional maps with tables for Latin America, Near East and South Asia, Far East, and Africa. A description of the Peace Corps…
Descriptors: Agriculture, Annual Reports, Community Development, Cooperative Programs
Peace Corps, Washington, DC. – 1971
Projects, operations, and future plans are covered in this annual report for the tenth year of the Peace Corps. An overview focuses on Peace Corps success in providing technical assistance to aid development plans for the seventies and in responding to local needs as well as on its failures. The next section considers the Peace Corps response to…
Descriptors: Agriculture, Annual Reports, Community Development, Cooperative Programs
Organization for Cooperation in Overseas Development, (St. Lucia). – 1992
This manual for volunteer teachers from Canada traveling to the West Indies to assist host governments with improving their teachers' skills describes the organization sponsoring the teachers, the nature of the volunteers' duties, and practical aspects of the stay abroad. Two opening sections describe the Organization for Cooperation in Overseas…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Inservice Teacher Education, Instructional Improvement
Pinkau, Irene – 1978
Part of a larger study evaluating both domestic and foreign development services, this compendium contains factual data on both voluntary and obligatory services obtained during field surveys. The 30 individual programs are described under the following categories: training and employment schemes (national youth service types) for uneducated…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Budgets, Change Agents, Citizen Participation
Godin, Joanne – 1991
Seven voluntary organizations in Canada looked at the literacy needs of the people who used their services. The Canadian Home and School and Parent-Teacher Federation began an 18-month pilot project focusing on "Literacy in the Information Age." It sponsored literacy exchanges in neighborhoods across Canada. The Canadian Child Welfare…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Child Welfare
YWCA of the U.S.A., New York, NY. – 1965
THIS REPORT REVIEWS THE SELECTION AND PREPARATION OF INTERNATIONAL TRAINING INSTITUTE PARTICIPANTS, SOURCES OF FINANCIAL SUPPORT, SEMINAR TOPICS, VISITS TO WASHINGTON, D.C. AND NEW YORK FOLLOWING THE SEMINAR, EXPERIENCES AND INSIGHTS ARISING FROM FIELD PLACEMENTS, WORKSHOP OBEJCTIVES AND OUTCOMES, (INCLUDING EVALUATIVE COMMENTS), AND THE CLOSING…
Descriptors: Community Change, Community Development, Cross Cultural Training, Discussion
Kreidler, William J. – 1985
This handbook was developed to help decision makers and others interested in gifted/talented education to address the challenge in two major ways: by designing new programs that successfully incorporate the principles and practices of community education and by improving existing programs using a community education approach. The seven programs…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, College School Cooperation, Community Education, Education Work Relationship
Wisconsin Univ.-Stout, Menomonie. Stout Vocational Rehabilitation Inst. – 1981
This progress report summarizes research, training, cooperative, regional advisory council, and special project activities conducted by the Rehabilitation Research and Training Center of the Stout Vocational Rehabilitation Institute from February 1980 through January 1981. Eleven research projects (four involving rehabilitation resources…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Agency Cooperation, Educational Cooperation, Educational Planning
Bailey, C. J., Comp. – 1973
This handbook was prepared for the Adult Basic Education (ABE) teacher to provide information on the public services and programs administered by Federal, State, and local governmental agencies, including private, civic, and community organizations through which the needs of ABE students may be met. A cross-index is provided, including the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Community Organizations, Community Resources, Directories
Janowitz, Gayle – 1968
This is the report of a three-year demonstration program designed to explore the potentials and limitations in the use of volunteers in inner-city education. Four centers in Chicago supplied sites for training and research. Program emphasis was on one to one tutoring at least once a week for predominantly black and poor primary school children no…
Descriptors: After School Education, Black Students, Case Studies, Demonstration Programs
Ekstrom, Ruth B.; Lockheed, Marlaine E. – 1976
Materials to facilitate the evaluation of the competencies women acquire from domestic and volunteer work were developed, so that academic credit might be awarded for these skills, and so that women's entry or re-entry into post secondary education might be enhanced. The project staff reviewed the literature, contacted volunteers and volunteer…
Descriptors: Adults, Business Skills, Check Lists, Classification
Office of Vocational and Adult Education (ED), Washington, DC. Div. of Adult Education and Literacy. – 1993
This report contains abstracts of 29 projects funded under the Adult Education National Research Program. The projects are of six types: studies of effective practices and programs, national impact studies, descriptive studies, developmental and design studies, commissioned papers, and technical assistance. Some of the projects examined cover the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Educational Finance, Educational Improvement
Woodward, Tessa, Ed. – The Teacher Trainer, 1989
This document consists of the three 1989 issues of "The Teacher Trainer," a journal for language teacher educators. The following articles appear in these issues: "From a Garage to a Teachers' Centre"; "Taking Risks--Being Unprepared?"; "Teacher Echoing and More"; "Teaching Lemon as a Foreign Language:…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Class Size, Classroom Observation Techniques, Classroom Techniques
1980
A survey examined the involvement of 11 voluntary agencies in providing employment-related services and programs for youth. A field-tested survey was completed by 1,005 respondents from corporate units of the following organizations: American Red Cross Youth Services, Boys' Clubs of America, Boy Scouts of America, Camp Fire, 4-H Youth Programs,…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Demography, Employment Programs, Employment Services
