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Andenoro, Anthony C. – Journal of Leadership Education, 2013
The inaugural National Leadership Education Research Agenda was created to establish a foundation for scholarship that will guide the field of Leadership Education and develop it as a discipline. Its timely research priorities present a framework for scholarship and resulting applied and basic implications. This paper provides perspective about…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Research Needs, Leadership, Leadership Training
Bailey, Natasha; Ward, Mark; Goodrick, Michelle – AONTAS The National Adult Learning Organisation, 2011
The research described in this report is a companion piece of research to one conducted by AONTAS from 2009-2010 about the outcomes and impact of Department of Education and Skills (DES) funded community education. It answers a call in that research to isolate and investigate the outcomes of community education not wholly funded through DES. This…
Descriptors: Social Change, Social Action, Models, Community Education
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Fetterman, David – New Directions for Evaluation, 2003
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)
Descriptors: Community Development, Evaluation Methods, Program Evaluation, Social Change
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Hynam, C. A. S. – Community Development Journal, 1973
Community development programs in Fort Chipewyan, Wabasca-Desmarais, and Slave Lake were evaluated to determine their success in effecting social change in spite of, or in cooperation with, the existing bureaucratic machinery in Alberta. The history of governmental support and the Human Resources Development Authority jurisdiction are cited…
Descriptors: Community Development, Developmental Programs, Foreign Countries, Governing Boards
Barass, Reitzel, and Associates, Inc., Cambridge, MA. – 1970
Focusing on the Community Action Program, an assessment was made of how much change has occurred in institutions which deal with the poor; what role CAP has played in realizing these changes, which CAP aspects or activities were related to institutional change; and community characteristics which might explain the changes or the role of CAP.…
Descriptors: Agencies, Attitudes, Community Action, Community Characteristics
Agency for International Development (Dept. of State), Washington, DC. – 1970
This volume of 1,108 abstracts summarizes the majority of important works on community development during the last ten years. Part I contains abstracts of periodical literature and is classified into 19 sections, including general history, communications, community and area studies, decision-making, leadership, migration and settlement, social…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Bibliographies, Books, Communications
Rudramoorthy, B. – 1964
Extension, the process of extending the knowledge of recent advances in science and technology to the people who need it, has been emphasized in India since the introduction of the Community Development Programme in 1952. Community development involves two distinct processes--extension education and community organization--and has had four…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Change Agents, Community Development, Developing Nations
McCann, Thurma; And Others – 1995
The Healthy Start Initiative is a national five-year demonstration program that uses a broad range of community-driven, system development approaches to reduce infant mortality and improve the health and well-being of women, infants, children, and families. This volume, third in the series, deals with the topic of sustainability, which refers to…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Child Development, Community Development, Coordination
Epskamp, Kees P. – 1989
This book investigates the educative role of theater in processes of social change and development, and considers how to evaluate the use of theater as a small-scale medium in realizing development projects based on a participatory or interventionist model. The book is in three major parts. Following an introduction and an introductory chapter,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Case Studies, Change Agents, Change Strategies
Wileden, Arthur F. – 1970
The approach in this book focuses on the process involved in the area of concern recognized as community development. The first three chapters give background on the village community and the farmstead community. The remaining 11 chapters are given to developing an understanding of community development and its dynamics. The bibliography lists the…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Change Agents, Community Development, Community Involvement
Bernard Van Leer Foundation, The Hague (Netherlands). – 1981
Participants in the Second Eastern Hemisphere Seminar (held at Salisbury, Zimbabwe in 1981) discussed topics related to the theme of integrated and early childhood education. The seminar was organized into plenary and small group discussions centered on four sub-topics of the broad theme: (1) Early Childhood Education: The Community Dimension; (2)…
Descriptors: Community Development, Developing Nations, Early Childhood Education, Educational Innovation
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Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Washington, DC. Project Share. – 1978
This monograph discusses how to bring about changes and reforms in the area of human services. The introduction defines human services and briefly discusses some reform movements and whether or not viable change methods are available. Section I discusses the roles of various change participants including the change agent, lobbyist, ombudsman,…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Change Agents, Change Strategies, Citizen Participation
Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC. Science and Education Administration. – 1980
This report describes the cooperative extension system and evaluates the consequences of its educational programs. An executive summary provides an overview of the contents: background, highlights of findings related to consequences, interpretations, and implications for the future. Following an introduction, chapter 2 discusses extension in terms…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Agriculture, Community Development
Hayes, Samuel P., Jr. – 1966
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…
Descriptors: Community Development, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Developing Nations
McConnell, Charlie, Ed. – 1996
The following papers are included: "Foreword" (Alexander); "Preface" (McConnell); "Editorial Introduction" (McConnell); "People Power" (Gibson); "Community Education within the Context of Reorganisation of Local Government" (Hughes); "The Challenge of Change" (Alexander Report);…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Change Strategies, Community Development
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