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Matusov, Eugene – Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 1999
Explores how a community of learners maintains itself through the inclusion of new generations, using the example of new parent volunteers at an innovative public elementary school. Describes four models of community maintenance defining the relationship between the community and newcomers. (Author/SLD)
Descriptors: Community Development, Educational Environment, Elementary Education, Maintenance
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Page, Nanette; Czuba, Cheryl E. – Journal of Extension, 1999
Empowerment is a multidimensional social process that helps people develop power to use in their lives, communities, and society. The Connecticut People Empowering People program builds on the theory of critical adult education to develop skills and supports for empowerment. (SK)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Development, Empowerment, Extension Education
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Page-Adams, Deborah; Sherraden, Michael – Social Work, 1997
Summarizes findings from studies that address the effects of assets on personal well-being, economic security, civic behavior, women's status, and children's well-being. Examines implications of asset-building demonstrations and research, presenting it as a new way of thinking about antipoverty strategies where resources are emphasized more than…
Descriptors: Community Development, Community Programs, Economic Development, Economic Factors
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Hoatson, Lesley – Community Development Journal, 2001
Interviews with 55 British and 40 Australian community development practitioners identified common phases experienced under New Right governments: retreat/isolation, adaptation/defense, and rebuilding. Britain's experiences suggest that community development practice is resilient, but reliance on government funding may restrain activism. (Contains…
Descriptors: Activism, Community Development, Federal Aid, Foreign Countries
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Finn, Janet L. – Community Development Journal, 2001
Women participating in grassroots community development in Chile received financial aid, training, and technical assistance in housing, repair and community organization. Relationships and gender played a powerful role in community change. However, their experiences illustrated the constraints on local action. (Contains 31 references.) (SK)
Descriptors: Community Change, Community Development, Democracy, Females
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Laverack, Glenn – Community Development Journal, 2001
Concept mapping of case studies resulted in nine organizational domains for community empowerment: participation, leadership, organizational structures, problem assessment, resource mobilization, critical awareness, linkages, outside agents, and program management. The domains provide a way to define and measure empowerment. (Contains 45…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Citizen Participation, Community Development, Community Involvement
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van Riezen, Karsten – Convergence, 1996
Nonformal education can have a significant impact on community development only when education is introduced into the total development process. Content must answer actual needs of the community, and community members should participate in planning, organization, and implementation of education. (SK)
Descriptors: Community Development, Community Involvement, Educational Quality, Foreign Countries
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Smith, Greg – Community Development Journal, 1996
Clarifies the value-laden meanings of "community" in community work discourse. Centers on the concepts of Gemeinschaft (community), Gesellschaft (association), and Bund (league or federation). Examines the insights of community studies and the practice of community work within the Judeo-Christian value system. (SK)
Descriptors: Community, Community Action, Community Development, Community Organizations
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Sumner, Jennifer – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2000
Adult educators can support communities in search of sustainability by helping them resist globalization and build civil capital (community action that blocks or challenges unsustainable activities). Grounded in life values, civil capital can form the basis of a civil society. (SK)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Citizen Participation, Community Development, Role of Education
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Kay, Alan – Community Development Journal, 2000
The arts can play a role in regeneration of areas of economic, social, cultural, and environmental disadvantage. Field study of four arts projects in Scotland identified (1) the need for community consultation and involvement; (2) uses of hard and soft data; (3) strategic use of the arts within overall community regeneration policy; and (4) the…
Descriptors: Community Change, Community Development, Disadvantaged, Fine Arts
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Borden, Lynne M. – Journal of the Community Development Society, 1999
Study of three community collaborations in family violence coordinating councils identified factors influencing sustainability: clearly stated goals, identification of key members, and good internal and external communication. Collaborations succeed when they enable individuals and their organizations to agree on vision, mission, and goals. (SK)
Descriptors: Community Cooperation, Community Development, Community Involvement, Family Violence
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Varley, Tony; Curtin, Chris – Community Development Journal, 2002
Considers whether two rural traditions of Irish community development--community councils and community cooperatives--conform to models of radical and pragmatic collective action. Shows that both have features of both models but gravitate more toward pragmatic, populist action rather than radical transformative change. (Contains 24 references.)…
Descriptors: Community Development, Community Organizations, Cooperatives, Foreign Countries
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Rooney, Eilish – Community Development Journal, 2002
Funding for community development in Ireland promotes a conflict management approach. Defining women's roles as apart from conflict is a political maneuver that does not aid reduction of conflict, obscures women's political agency, and limits the access of women's organizations to funding. (Contains 52 references.) (SK)
Descriptors: Community Development, Females, Financial Support, Foreign Countries
Mitchell, Peter T.; Levine, Myron A. – Metropolitan Universities: An International Forum, 2001
Describes the development of a new transformational vision for Albion College in Michigan, which led to a community envisioning process off campus. The result was a new city-college partnership designed to promote the development of the city of Albion as "The Smart Community." (EV)
Descriptors: Community Development, Higher Education, Program Descriptions, School Community Relationship
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Keough, Noel – Community Development Journal, 1998
Principles for participatory community development are as follows: humility and respect; power of local knowledge; democratic practice; diverse ways of knowing; sustainability; reality before theory; uncertainty; relativity of time and efficiency; holistic approach; and decisions rooted in the community. (SK)
Descriptors: Community Development, Community Involvement, Community Role, Decision Making
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