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Publication Date: 1996
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The Value of Local Knowledge and the Importance of Shifting Beliefs in the Process of Social Change.
Fussell, Weyman
Community Development Journal, v31 n1 p44-53 Jan 1996
Beliefs and values evolve within communities through daily experience. Information gained from experience is translated into knowledge through the filter of beliefs and values. Community development facilitators should add their knowledge base to the community's to produce new knowledge and a synthesis of new cultural habits. (SK)
Descriptors: Beliefs, Community Attitudes, Community Development, Constructivism (Learning), Social Change, Values
Publication Type: Opinion Papers; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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