The Cultural Missions Programme: An Early Attempt at Community Development in Mexico.

Rubio, Alfredo

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ERIC Number: EJ197429

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Publication Date: 1978-Oct

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The Cultural Missions Programme: An Early Attempt at Community Development in Mexico.

Rubio, Alfredo

Community Development Journal, v13 n3 p164-69 Oct 1978

The author reviews the "Cultural Missions Programme" of Mexico's educational reform after 1920, in which groups of teachers using Catholic missionary methods fought poverty and ignorance in rural Mexico. These mission programs embody most of the community development principles and are still needed. (MF)

Descriptors: Change Agents, Community Development, Dropouts, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, History, Political Influences, Rural Development, Social Action, Socioeconomic Influences

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: Mexico

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