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O'Gorman, Frances; Speyer, Anne Marie; Tedrus, Maria Aparecida L. – Community Development Journal, 1998
O'Gorman provides "Five Points for Reflection" on nongovernmental and community organizations in Brazil. Speyer and Tedrus discuss "Community Libraries: An Experience in Community Development in the Periphery of Sao Paulo." (SK)
Descriptors: Community Development, Community Organizations, Foreign Countries, Libraries
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Kenny, Susan – Community Development Journal, 1996
Since the 1980s, community development in Australia has become professionalized and operates in a milieu of deregulation and privatization. Development workers struggle with questions of integrity and compromise and the contradictory pulls of modernism and postmodernism. (SK)
Descriptors: Activism, Community Development, Conflict, Foreign Countries
Thompson, J. D. Ekundayo – Community Education International, 1996
Poverty in Africa is related to numerous factors: history of slavery, colonial and neocolonial rule, political and economic dependence, foreign debt, government corruption, high illiteracy, gender insensitivity, civil wars that create refugees, and unemployment. Solutions must take into account the political, economic, and social factors that…
Descriptors: Community Development, Economic Development, Foreign Countries, Poverty
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Schuftan, Claudio – Community Development Journal, 1996
This taxonomy of effective community development approaches in service delivery, capacity building, advocacy, and social mobilization identifies the degree to which they can empower people. (SK)
Descriptors: Advocacy, Classification, Community Development, Delivery Systems
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Cannan, Crescy – Community Development Journal, 2000
Thought and practice from the green movement should be used to widen understanding of the environment and development of community projects for a sustainable economy and convivial communities. In turn, community development's expertise in democratic processes could inform environmental action. (SK)
Descriptors: Community Development, Conservation (Environment), Democracy, Sustainable Development
Baksh, Rawwida, Ed.; Munro, Tanyss, Ed. – Commonwealth of Learning, 2009
This book includes a range of community peacebuilding experiences from across the Commonwealth that have been applying open and distance learning (ODL) approaches. The case studies offer insights into the challenges as well as the kinds of interventions that have worked and how they can be built upon. They show that ODL can be an effective and…
Descriptors: Community Development, Distance Education, Conflict Resolution, Childrens Rights
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Archer-Cunningham, Kwayera – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2007
This article discusses a three-tiered process of collective experiences of various artistic and cultural forms that fosters the healing and transformation of individuals, families, and communities of the African Diaspora. Ifetayo Cultural Arts, located in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, espouses and practices a three-tiered model of community…
Descriptors: Community Development, Cultural Education, Art Education, Cultural Awareness
Waite, Paul Daniel – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Based on ten months of ethnographic fieldwork, including more than 65 in-depth interviews with Chinese university students and higher education administrators, this study examines the roots of an emerging community service learning movement in mainland China. The dissertation focuses on a case study of a pioneering Chinese Party State-sponsored…
Descriptors: Caring, Community Development, Social Control, Service Learning
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McLachlan, Kathryn; Arden, Catherine H. – Rural Society, 2009
Rural communities such as Stanthorpe on Queensland's Southern Downs, in Australia, are familiar with turbulent environmental, social, technological and economic change and the adversity that frequently accompanies such changes. The capacity of individuals and communities to bounce back from adversity is referred to as resilience. Participation in…
Descriptors: Community Leaders, Community Development, Action Research, Lifelong Learning
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Miller, Peter Michael – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2008
This qualitative study examined boundary spanning leadership in community-based contexts. The study focused on exceptional leaders of university-school-community partnerships in two urban regions of the USA. The findings indicate that boundary spanners are aided by contextual knowledge, interpersonal skills, trust and connectedness, but they also…
Descriptors: Integrated Services, Qualitative Research, Partnerships in Education, School Community Relationship
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Cugliari, Christine Wetherholt; Earnest, Garee W. – Journal of Leadership Education, 2007
This study of philanthropy donors in Appalachian Ohio was conducted with the purpose of understanding giving within a rural region. The research was initiated with an ultimate goal of increasing endowed assets in communities that are experiencing philanthropic poverty. The data collected from donors utilizing post-positivist qualitative research…
Descriptors: Private Financial Support, Philanthropic Foundations, Donors, Rural Areas
Dockery, A. Michael; Milsom, Nicola – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2007
This report sets out to comprehensively analyse major reviews and evaluations of programs relevant to Indigenous labour market outcomes, including national mainstream and Indigenous-specific policies. The main evaluations covered relate to the Aboriginal Employment Development Policy, the Indigenous Employment Policy, the Community Development…
Descriptors: Community Development, Indigenous Populations, Employment Programs, Labor Market
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Ledwith, Margaret – Educational Action Research, 2007
This paper engages with some of the specific issues that challenge critical practice. My argument is related to the Carr and Kemmis debate on "staying critical" and to ideas expressed in my current book, "Community Development: A Critical Approach." I refer to critical practice as any practice that has a transformative social justice intention,…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Community Development, Action Research, Intention
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Aprill, Arnold; Townsell, Richard – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2007
All too often, a community undergoing a community development process is relegated to the role of audience to outsiders' expertise. Community members are asked to furnish token "representation" of the residents' point of view and once they have been represented are asked to approve what the outsiders say is in their best interest. This dynamic is…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Community Development, Adult Learning, Art Activities
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Smyth, Francis – Convergence, 1969
Descriptors: Community Development, Cooperatives, Economics, Leadership Training
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