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PDF pending restorationDuff, Betty Parker – 1999
Among the many outside influences on Appalachian culture in the late 19th-early 20th centuries were reformers and educators, many of them women who came to the mountains to work as teachers, settlement workers, and nurses. This paper focuses on settlement schools in eastern Kentucky as the locus of interaction between reformers and mountain women.…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Adult Education, Elementary Education, Females
Download full textGoetz, Kathy, Ed. – Family Resource Coalition Report, 1992
This "special focus" journal issue consists of 13 individual articles on the theme of rural family programs relating to school, health services, church, and other institutions. It includes: (1) "Towards a Rural Family Policy" (Judith K. Chynoweth and Michael D. Campbell); (2) "Montana: Council for Families Collaborates for…
Descriptors: Children, Community Programs, Extension Education, Family Problems
Hazard Community Coll., KY. – 1987
A project was created to provide individualized and technical training specially designed for women who desired to become small business owners. Recruitment of eastern Kentucky women in the Hazard Community College five-county service area was done through direct mailing; posting of flyers; and newspaper, radio, and television publicity. In…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Business Administration, Craft Workers, Economic Opportunities
Couto, Richard A.; And Others – 1986
The grassroots Rural Communities Educational Cooperative (RCEC) made higher education accessible/affordable to adults in rural Appalachian communities, designed courses for competency-based rural education, and received high ratings from students and faculty. The Mountain Women's Exchange--a network of seven community organizations run by…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Development, Community Involvement, Community Leaders
