Summarizes the chapters of this theme issue on youth participatory evaluation. The overarching theme from this collection is the shift from a focus on youth as defective to a view of youth as assets in community development. (SLD)

Presents community development as a strategy for achieving goals of prevention in small communities in Appalachia. Emphasizes the organization of social structures and collective efforts in problem and enhancing levels of physical and mental health in these vulnerable communities. (Author)

Hitachi grantees promote social responsibility through efforts supporting effective participation in a global society. Meeting participants explored issues in global and multicultural education and in community development. Among the contents of this compilation are pre-meeting reflections on cultural change and developing multiculturalism…

The purpose of this bibliography is to provide references to the existing literature pertinent to: 1) the understanding of the interrelationships between education and social development; and, 2) the formulation of guidelines for educational strategies in developing areas in light of social development. Of the more than 700 entries approximately…

In this manual, an attempt is made to demonstrate how certain social science measurements can be adapted to help field workers in economic and community development assess initial conditions before a project is begun, to measure the extent to which various attempts at producing social change have succeeded, to determine the overall result of…