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Download full textLilley, Stephen C.; McLean, Edward L. – 1979
Williamsburg County, South Carolina, is an almost entirely rural area near the coast. Although nearly 50% of the population is under 21, there has been a sharp decline in population since its high in 1950. The outmigration, prounounced for black youth, is caused by a lack of industrial opportunities, although there is slow, steady industrial…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Agricultural Production, Attitudes, Blacks
Bialek, Hilton; Nabokov, Peter – 1972
Four rural communities in northern Maine were the setting for a pilot program in Indian adult education that featured a new kind of instructional model. Developed by the Human Resources Research Organization (HumRRO), it featured peer instruction, strict performance orientation, and insistance on mastery of certain skills. A HumRRO representative…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, American Indian Education, American Indians
Mermis, William L.; Chenault, Joann – 1979
This handbook presents major content information that can be useful in the planning of comprehensive professional development programs and individual skill building. It presents curricular modules and professional development units being developed which represent the basic tools for the contemporary practice of both career education and human…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Bibliographies, Career Education, Community Development
Jensen, Kenneth D. – 1979
Canada's Arctic co-operatives are designed to provide a means of encouraging Eskimos to participate directly in the economic development of the Arctic through the promotion of cooperative ownership and enterprise. They also seek to provide a method of maximizing economic returns in Arctic communities from local businesses and enterprise. Backed by…
Descriptors: Canada Natives, Collective Settlements, Community Development, Cooperatives
Shipp, James – 1977
Some of the issues involved in promoting home ownership among blacks and investment in inner city communities are discussed in this paper. The experiences of the Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation in revitalizing Bedford Stuyvesant are described. Economic barriers to prospective home ownership are identified and strategies and programs…
Descriptors: Black Businesses, Black Community, Black Employment, Black Housing
HAYES, ALFRED S. – 1964
THIS CONFERENCE REPORT BEGINS BY POINTING OUT THE COMPLEX RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN THE SPREAD OF LITERACY AND THE INTERESTS AND ASPIRATIONS OF NATIONS AND INDIVIDUALS IN ORDER TO PROVIDE SOME GUIDANCE IN THE INITIAL ALLOCATION OF FUNDS AND PERSONNEL FOR NATIONAL LITERACY PROGRAMS. A NEED IS SEEN FOR IMPROVED INTERDISCIPLINARY UNDERSTANDING, CLOSER…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Ancillary Services, Community Development, Educational Objectives
LOURIA, MARGOT; STOKES, MARGURITE C. – 1968
THESE PROFILES PROVIDE EXTENSIVE DATA ON POVERTY, POPULATION TRENDS, EDUCATION, WELFARE, CRIME, AND UNEMPLOYMENT IN 20 MAJOR METROPOLITAN AREAS. FISCAL YEAR 1967 APPROPRIATIONS FOR ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOL ACTIVITIES, FOR BASIC AND OCCUPATIONAL TRAINING, AND FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ARE ALSO LISTED. THE POPULATION, POVERTY, AND EDUCATION…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Blacks, Community Development, Crime
Syracuse Univ., NY. ERIC Clearinghouse on Adult Education. – 1968
TWENTY-THREE ABSTRACTS AND ANNOTATIONS OF RECENT (1962-67) PUBLICATIONS ON ADULT EDUCATION IN AFRICA ARE PROVIDED IN THIS BIBLIOGRAPHY. EDUCATIONAL NEEDS AND POLICIES AND SPECIFIC NATIONAL AND INSTITUTIONAL PROGRAMS IN ETHIOPIA, TANZANIA, KENYA, MALAWI, ZAMBIA, RHODESIA, AND NIGERIA ARE FEATURED, WITH COMMUNITY AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT, MANPOWER…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Annotated Bibliographies, Community Development, Correspondence Study
Franklin, Richard; And Others – 1964
Part of a report of seminar proceedings, six papers on community development in developed nations review the conceptual dimensions, issues, and directions of community development in the United States; pilot programs of social research, training, and consultation in rural Saskatchewan; the community development efforts of the University of New…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Case Studies, Community Coordination, Community Development
Biddle, William W.; Biddle, Loureide J. – 1965
The development process in two communities, a mining county in rural Appalachia and a deteriorating neighborhood in a northern industrial city, is presented in case-study form. Concepts and commonly used terms are defined; a process of development is identified that can be used in groups small enough to permit attention to the growth of persons.…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Biracial Committees, Citizens Councils, Communication (Thought Transfer)
Rader, Hannelore B. – 1978
This bibliography contains 77 items relative to the problems of self-, community, and program development within community colleges and includes books, journal articles, dissertations, and ERIC materials from 1970 to the present as well as a few fundamental sources dated before 1970. The bibliography is divided into five sections: general…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, College Planning, Community Colleges, Community Development
Appalachian Regional Commission, Washington, DC. – 1977
Goals, objectives, and strategies for development in the 13 states involved in the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) are detailed in this document adopted by ARC in 1977. The regional development plan incorporates earlier evaluation and program design efforts, discussion from an issues report, state comments and development plans, and public…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Agency Role, Change Strategies, Community Development
Appalachian Regional Commission, Washington, DC. – 1978
Narrative and tabular data, maps, and photographs comprise this annual report for fiscal 1977 on the Appalachian Regional Commission. Among highlights reported for the year were: completion of half the mileage in the Appalachian Development Highway system, further reducing inhabitants' isolation from jobs, schools, and markets; continued reversal…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Child Development, Clinics, Community Development
Roberts, Helen – 1978
If, indeed, there is a formula for developing an integrated bilingual and cross-cultural curriculum, the Northwest Arctic School District's experience would suggest the following key elements of the development process: base the curriculum on the rapidly changing social context, rather than on stereotyped bicultural concepts; ensure local control…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, American Indians, Bilingual Education, Community Development
Rogers, David L., Ed.; Whiting, Larry R., Ed. – 1976
The result of a rural development conference, this publication emphasizes the theory of rural public service planning and is addressed to middle and/or top level planners and public administrators and/or researchers concerned with the delivery of public services. The objectives of this 12-paper collection are: to review existing methods and…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Agency Cooperation, Change Strategies, Citizen Participation
