Describes the integrated model of action research/planning/development employed in the City of York to provide adult and continuing education opportunities through: (1) the Adult Day School; (2) community and continuing education classes initiated by the Board of Education; and (3) cooperative relationships between community organizations and…

Describes Vancouver Community College's development of a community education program in the district's multiethnic, low-income, urban North East Sector. Explains how the project changed its goals and emphases, how it spawned new projects, and how it declined. Sees a new cycle of community development and social reform taking shape. (AYC)