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Forrest, Dod W. – Community Development Journal, 1999
Empowerment is a contested concept, an ideology creating new forms of control. Conceptualizing it as a multilevel construct is a step toward building a new hegemony for the working class, by raising consciousness of control, participation, shared vision, and ownership. (SK)
Descriptors: Community Development, Empowerment, Personal Autonomy, Socialism
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Hustedde, Ronald J. – Journal of the Community Development Society, 1998
Draws on a wide range of theoretical and empirical literature and community-development experiences to investigate soulful practices within the field. Suggests that it is time to talk openly about soul in community development. (Author)
Descriptors: Adults, Community Development, Cultural Influences, Interpersonal Relationship
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Ledwith, Margaret – Community Development Journal, 2001
Community work is critical pedagogy because it is located at the interface of liberation and domination. Community workers are situated either as perpetuators of the status quo or as agents of transformative change. (Contains 29 references.) (SK)
Descriptors: Change Agents, Community Change, Community Development, Community Organizations
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Moore, Allen B.; Brooks, Rusty – Learning Communities: International Journal of Adult and Vocational Learning, 2000
Describes features of learning communities: they transform themselves, share wisdom and recognition, bring others in, and share results. Provides the case example of the Upper Savannah River Economic Coalition. Discusses actions of learning communities, barriers to their development, and future potential. (SK)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Cooperation, Community Development, Community Organizations
Linke, Hildegard – Comunicacoes, 2000
Seeks to justify the educational practice of dialogue and its contributions to community development. Contends that the central element and cause of dialogue is constituted within the non-formal educational process. States that Paulo Freire emphasizes the role of words and its basis as a creative synthesis of theory and practice. (BT)
Descriptors: Community Development, Educational Practices, Higher Education, Nonformal Education
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Smith, B. C. – Community Development Journal, 1998
Inauthentic participation may be limited to providing inputs, giving the community no power. However, even weak participation in the form of utilization, contributions, enlistment, cooperation, and consultation can have benefits. (Author/SK)
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Community Cooperation, Community Development, Community Involvement
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Morrissey, Janice – Community Development Journal, 2000
A study of participatory evaluation by learning teams at 10 rural sites of the Empowerment Zones/Enterprise Communities program showed the importance of separating indicators of participation from project impacts. Evaluation of three categories was recommended: citizen participation (process indicators), impact of participation on individuals and…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Community Development, Community Organizations, Rural Areas
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Fesenmaier, Julie; Contractor, Noshir – Journal of the Community Development Society, 2001
Groupware was used to survey rural development practitioners and policymakers about professional relationships, skills, and expertise. The software created an inventory of the social and knowledge capital of this community of interest but was not enough to sustain ongoing, active participation. (Contains 42 references.) (SK)
Descriptors: Community Development, Networks, Rural Development, World Wide Web
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Brown, Ralph B.; Dorius, Shawn F.; Krannich, Richard S. – Rural Sociology, 2005
To better understand the long-term effects of rapid boom growth, we reexamine four subjective indicators of community satisfaction and social integration in Delta, Utah, which were originally analyzed by Brown, Geertsen, and Krannich in 1989. With 24 years of longitudinal data, we find that within approximately a decade of the boom period three of…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Social Integration, Community Development, Community Change
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Huang, Yan; Boshier, Roger – Convergence, 2008
In March 2006, Premier Wen Jiabao acknowledged that the situation in the Chinese countryside is desperate and claimed new resources would be devoted to healthcare and education. This announcement should have pleased architects of the Chinese "learning initiative" who are building learning cities and villages. The authors describe why…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Foreign Countries, Social Capital, Human Capital
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Greenberg, Daniel J. – History Teacher, 2008
For educators, the anti-globalization movement has created a literature of opposition which offers enhanced opportunities for teaching critical analysis of neo-liberal political economy. The movement also aids those who wish to teach how First World wealth and privilege is functionally related to Third World poverty and underdevelopment. The…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Community Development, Travel, Citizenship
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Broadway, Michael J.; Stull, Donald D. – Journal of Rural Studies, 2006
In December 1980, the world's largest beef processing plant opened 10 miles west of Garden City, KS. Three years later another beef plant opened on Garden City's eastern edge. Full employment in the surrounding region meant that most of the 4000 workers needed to run these plants had to come from elsewhere--and they did. Garden City grew by…
Descriptors: Community Development, Food, Agribusiness, Economic Impact
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Kiang, Peter Nien-Chu – Race, Ethnicity & Education, 2006
Beginning with an overview of historical commitments by AAPI populations to educational advocacy, this article analyzes the current US educational policy context of No Child Left Behind at the national and local level, and argues that both its rhetoric and system of "accountability" have been crafted in ways that are completely…
Descriptors: Policy Analysis, Pacific Islanders, Community Development, Asian Americans
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Midgley, Jane – Journal of Rural Studies, 2006
This paper considers the important issue of women's economic participation in rural community development and regeneration. The paper explores the economic lives and actions of women residents in ''Ilston'', a village in the Northumberland Rural Coalfield. The women's narratives illustrate the economic connections between private and public…
Descriptors: Females, Community Development, Citizen Participation, Rural Development
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Kulig, Judith; Krupa, Eugene; Nowatzki, Nadine – Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 2007
This paper discusses the development, delivery, and evaluation of a successful graduate course in community development offered to students across Canada via the Internet. The review of literature points to common themes in distance education, community development and health promotion. The course, "Health Promotion: Community Development…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Internet, Community Development, Graduate Students
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