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Mauma, Rommel Z. – Literacy Discussion, 1975
The paper examines and evaluates the correspondence education system from its inception to the present. Emphasis has been placed on non-certificate, job-oriented courses, (bookkeeping/accounting, political education, and inservice teacher programs). Data on the regional distribution of the students is included. (JB)
Descriptors: Community Development, Correspondence Study, Developing Nations, Educational Administration
Singh, Surendra P.; Comer, Sammy – 1988
Vocational and technical training programs for less developed countries offer little in the way of training the intermediate cadres, technicians, and village level workers necessary for modernizing the primary sector on which developing economies depend. Training is vital because it secures cost reduction and maximum use of organization, enables…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Development, Developing Nations, Job Training
Rogers, Nelson – Association of Canadian Community Colleges, 2004
Of the many roles colleges are called upon to play, the role of partner in community development is a significant one. The visibility and importance of this function is particularly evident in rural and remote communities. These locations provide excellent opportunities to examine the dynamics of this interaction, and gain an understanding that…
Descriptors: Community Development, Community Colleges, Rural Areas, Rural Education

Kincaid, James M., Jr.; Knop, Edward C. – 1992
This report describes and evaluates the Colorado Rural Revitalization Project (CRRP). CRRP was established in 1988 as an experimental approach to institutional collaboration to provide community development services among selected rural communities of less than 5,000 people. CRRP consisted of a partnership among rural Colorado communities,…
Descriptors: Community Development, Cooperative Programs, Delivery Systems, Higher Education
Cole, R.; And Others – 1990
Many rural communities share these complaints: (1) an exodus of the best and brightest young people; (2) a changing and ambivalent self-concept about the identity and the future of the community; and (3) a scarcity of good jobs to act as the mortar that bonds the other elements together. The South Dakota Rural Schools and Community Development…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Community Development, Economic Development, Elementary Secondary Education
Billimoria, Roshan R., Ed. – 1978
Inspiried by a United Nations effort to establish a worldwide university, the four and one-half year project carried out in Thy (Denmark) is explained in this final report, from its historical beginnings in 1973 to its official completion in 1978. Dedicated to the solution of problems which could be considered universal, the project goals are…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Community Development, Community Education, Energy Conservation

Miller, Michael K.; And Others – Rural Sociology, 1984
Estimates impact of community resource development (CRD) programs on a variety of quality of life indicators for 73 Arkansas counties that were nonmetropolitan in 1960. Results indicate that few quality of life indicators were affected in the direction intended by CRD programs. Examines substantive and methodological implications of the findings.…
Descriptors: Community Development, Community Resources, Dropout Prevention, Extension Education
Fernandez, Richard R.; Hagood, Richard A. – 1978
Now completing its second year, the Partnership for Rural Improvement (PRI) is a four year rural development program funded by the W. K. Kellogg Foundation. Its fundamental purpose is the development of a linkage system connecting the research and development of knowledge about rural improvement with the dissemination and use of that knowledge.…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Community Development, Community Organizations, Community Planning
Parks, Gail Armstrong – 1979
Case studies of local development projects in Scotland, Norway, Australia, and the United States (Minnesota) indicate that federal education programs of a "generative" nature (those linking educational improvement to other improvement efforts, emphasizing process, and stimulating grass-roots participation) are most likely to promote…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Community Development, Community Involvement, Community Services
Gober, Lydia A., Comp.; Wiseman, T. Jan, Comp. – 1979
Communities Alive For Living and Learning (Project CALL), designed at Kishwaukee College to help three local, rural communities develop educational, recreational, and cultural programs, is described in this report. The first sections of the report consider the need for and purposes of the project. The Project Coordinator's report presents an…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Community Development, Community Education, Community Involvement
Vandenberg, Lela; And Others – 1983
A four-section annotated bibliography is comprised of sources for information on evaluation intended for non-formal education (NFE) participants. Several themes and issues stand out in the documents cited: (1) the difficulty of isolating impacts and attributing them to a specific educational project; (2) the question of qualitative (focussing on…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Attitude Measures, Citizen Participation, Community Development
Arkansas Community Education Development Association, Little Rock. – 1982
Rural school districts in five Arkansas towns set up school-based development corporations (SBDCs) to provide vocational and career training relevant to the needs of rural high school students and the community and to improve the economic and social welfare of the community as a whole. Each SBDC owned and operated businesses using student labor…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Community Benefits, Community Development, Definitions
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Bangkok (Thailand). Regional Office for Education in Asia and Oceania. – 1986
Papers designed to help build multidisciplinary training networks for rural development are collected in this document, an outgrowth of a regional training workshop attended by participants from Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Republic of Korea, Thailand, and India. The six papers deal with the objectives of the workshop which were to:…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Community Development, Cooperative Programs, Developing Nations
Clough, Barbara Stolze, Ed. – 1990
Among 17 French and 63 English papers are the following: "Case Study of the Convergence Model in Program Evaluation" (Alexander); "Nowlen's Approach to Continuing Professional Education" (Blanchard); "Challenge for Indigenous Approaches to Adult Education (AE) and Development" (Bonson); "Cultural and Social…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Students