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Hill, John P.; And Others – 1980
One of a series of papers which focus on 10- to 15-year-old adolescents, this publication describes these young people as they work through developmental tasks in environments (families, communities, peer groups, and schools) that are part of their daily lives. This description is used as a basis to accomplish the following: (1) a further…
Descriptors: Achievement, Adolescent Development, Annotated Bibliographies, Attachment Behavior
Bolton Inst., Inc., Wellesley, MA. – 1976
This model, developed and tested in Vermont, involved a two-day assembly using a technique concentrating on small-group dynamics to encourage productive community assessment and decision-making. Included are exhaustive documentation of an example assembly to consider options for integrating human and environmental requirements in Vermont as a…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Community, Community Action, Community Cooperation
Lopate, Carol; And Others – 1969
This review paper on the current issue of school decentralization points out that it has been consistently demonstrated that participation in the decision making process results in positive changes in both the affective and instrumental behavior of participants. Studies show that parent involvement in the schools enhances children's development…
Descriptors: Child Development, Community Influence, Community Schools, Decentralization
Riessman, Frank – 1968
Despite the difficulties emerging in relationships between paraprofessionals and agency professionals--difficulties related to basic social cleavages (black-white, community-professional, and participation-authority)--the utilization of paraprofessionals will continue to increase because of community desire to influence the staffs of the agency or…
Descriptors: Community Influence, Community Involvement, Community Relations, Decentralization
Breivik, Patricia Senn, Ed. – 1975
This collection of essays focuses on group social and political action as it relates to libraries and their environments. The introduction discusses the group-concept approach to studying library and information science. The essays are case studies of interest group politics, including: (1) the imprisonment of a librarian who refused to give…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Censorship, Community Influence, Community Organizations
Melrood, Margot – 1970
This annotated bibliography was compiled as a library research project at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee. Part I of the listing deals with decentralization as a structural feature of the local political system. Part II examines the process of local citizen participation. Parts III and IV focus on community control in the decentralization…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Citizen Participation, Community Control, Community Influence
Roanhorse, Evelyn Sharl – 1973
The purposes of this study were, first, to identify the ways Navajos have historically met their needs, pointing out ways in which American society has dealt with their social welfare problems, and second, to determine to what extent present day social welfare services have met these needs. The study population consisted of 112 Navajo workers from…
Descriptors: Agency Role, American Indians, Community Influence, Education
Hughes, Marie M. – 1971
This document is organized around five broad purposes of the Community Component of the TTT Project in Early Education with suggested activities for their attainment. The five purposes are as follows: a) developing understanding and empathy for the Spanish-speaking Spanish American and Mexican American; b) identifying the salient environmental…
Descriptors: Child Development, Community Influence, Community Involvement, Early Childhood Education
Drake, Thelbert L.; Thompson, Diane D. – 1971
This study was conducted to determine if the influence of key individuals on student teachers differed by preservice teaching settings and if such persons could affect differences in the perceived beliefs and behaviors of student teachers towards their pupils and towards teaching. Sixty student teachers were divided into three groups of 20…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Behavior Change, Community Influence, Educational Environment
LaBrecque, Richard; Ravitz, Leonard – 1973
The problem has always been making educational theory relevant to practice. University education instruction isolates the problems from the practice. This study is based on the notion that the community rather than schools is the context for designing a teacher preparation curriculum. In this framework students of education are viewed as "human…
Descriptors: Clinical Experience, Community Influence, Educational Philosophy, Educational Principles
McClure, Robert M. – 1973
An analysis of data from two studies and reviews of selected literature are used to describe (1) problems of decision making at the institutional level; (2) those decisions now being made at inappropriate levels according to criteria generated by the data; and (3) alternative forms of decision making, including change strategies. Data selected for…
Descriptors: Community Influence, Curriculum Development, Decision Making, Educational Objectives
Hall, Joseph C. – 1972
The role of the black reading specialist is here defined on the basis of informal observations and on surveys distributed to reading specialists in predominantly black colleges and to deans of predominantly black graduate programs. Though the role of the black reading specialist includes all the tasks of the typical reading specialist, the black…
Descriptors: Black Community, Black Influences, Black Leadership, Community Influence
Bureau of Libraries and Educational Technology (DHEW/OE), Washington, DC. – 1970
This annotated bibliography is a highly selective list of materials published in the last five years on the major problems, trends, methodologies and achievements in the field of child development. It contains annotated references to approximately 500 books, periodicals, technical reports, government documents, legislative materials, professional…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Child Development, Child Labor, Child Welfare
Laue, James; And Others – 1971
This report describes the workshop, sponsored by the Laboratory of Community Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, that gathered in Cambridge on April 21-23, 1971 to explore the question: Is there a definable discipline of community crisis intervention (CCI) with a discoverable body of techniques which can be systematized, taught, evaluated and…
Descriptors: Community Action, Community Influence, Community Problems, Conferences

Spikes, Frank – Lifelong Learning: The Adult Years, 1978
The educator planning continuing education programs for nurses should move from a unidimensional focus which examines only the internal determinants of the nursing profession to a wholistic focus embracing a community orientation. This article presents a model comprised of five elements for use in planning continuing nursing education programs.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Advisory Committees, Community Influence, Delivery Systems