Rural Community Development: What Sort of Social Change?.

Wright, Susan

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ERIC Number: EJ447699

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Publication Date: 1992

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Rural Community Development: What Sort of Social Change?

Wright, Susan

Journal of Rural Studies, v8 n1 p15-28 Jan 1992

Describes the role of the rural community development worker in achieving social change by encouraging participatory decision making. Presents results of a participatory research study in which the author, as a community worker, empowers a village with a failed water supply to seek change where they had previously experienced resistance by authorities. (KS)

Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Community Development, Foreign Countries, Participative Decision Making, Participatory Research, Political Issues, Public Policy, Rural Areas, Rural Development, Social Change, Water Pollution

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom (Great Britain)

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