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Datta, Ranjan – Cogent Education, 2016
Community garden activities can play a significant role in bridging formal and informal learning, particularly in urban children's science and environmental education. It promotes relational methods of learning, discussing, and practicing that will integrate food security, social interactions, community development, environmental activism, and…
Descriptors: Gardening, Informal Education, Ethnography, Power Structure
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Ravensbergen, Frances; Vanderplaat, Madine – McGill Journal of Education, 2010
This paper explores the use of "learning circles" as one form of knowledge production in social action research. It reports on a project that used learning circles as a setting within which to increase the engagement of people living with low income in developing strategies for the reduction and elimination of poverty in Canada. It…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Low Income Groups, Action Research, Social Action
Ontario Inst. for Studies in Education, Toronto. – 1968
The workshop reports on tasks, recommendations, and general implications for the study and practice of community development in Canada. Part one deals with recommendations and tasks arising in the areas of conferences and communication, community development as a field of study, training, field work, and survey and placement of workers.…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Community Development, Conferences, Curriculum Development
Lloyd, Antony John – 1967
This first survey of community development in Canada attempts to give a conspectus of activities past, in progress, and planned, in the communities of the socially and economically deprived Indians, Negroes, and Eskimos. It examines the extent of commitment of federal and provincial governments to community programs and projects, and comments on…
Descriptors: American Indians, Bibliographies, Blacks, Community Development
Franklin, Richard; And Others – 1964
Part of a report of seminar proceedings, six papers on community development in developed nations review the conceptual dimensions, issues, and directions of community development in the United States; pilot programs of social research, training, and consultation in rural Saskatchewan; the community development efforts of the University of New…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Case Studies, Community Coordination, Community Development
SCHLESINGER, BENJAMIN – 1966
AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY INCLUDES 589 SELECTED REFERENCES IN VARIED AREAS RELATED TO THE MULTI-DISCIPLINED APPROACH TO POVERTY. WITH THE EXCEPTION OF SOME HISTORICAL ITEMS, MATERIALS DATE FROM 1960 TO JUNE 1966 AND ARE READILY AVAILABLE. FEW UNPUBLISHED MATERIALS ARE INCLUDED. THERE ARE ABOUT EIGHT TIMES AS MANY AMERICAN REFERENCES AS CANADIAN.…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Bibliographies, Community Development, Community Involvement