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Gold, Gerard G. – 1979
Community work-education councils are supplying "grass roots" citizen involvement in policymaking on transitional services for youth moving from school to work. Since 1977, almost 1,000 people in thirty-three communities have participated in local work-education councils affiliated with the national Work-Education Consortium. On the…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Community Action, Community Cooperation, Community Involvement
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Fulcher, Leon C. – Child Welfare, 2002
Examines the notion of cultural safety in relation to the duty of care mandate assigned to child welfare workers when the state intervenes in family life, focusing on the vulnerabilities of rural and indigenous youth in New Zealand to cultural racism. Asserts that child welfare professionals have a professional obligation to enhance their cultural…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Childhood Needs, Children, Cultural Influences
Akehurst, Michael D. – 1980
In spite of the popular misconception of life in rural England as a rustic idyll, social and economic conditions there have created many issues which result in deprivation for rural youth. The major issues which affect employment, schooling, social, and domestic situations for rural youth are: (1) accessibility--lack of transportation; (2)…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adolescents, Community Organizations, Community Resources
Akehurst, Michael D. – 1979
Financial and policy discrimination in favour of urban areas has been accompanied by a decline in provision for youth in rural areas of England, resulting in deprivations of opportunity, mobility, and household. Lack of public transport and the escalating costs of motoring are the most important factors in depriving rural youth access to…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adolescents, Community Resources, Cultural Isolation
McCartney, Irene, Ed. – 2000
For many years, farmworkers in Zimbabwe have been a marginalized and neglected community. This book describes the lives of hired farmworkers' children in their own words. Over 850 children aged 10-17 were interviewed or wrote essays in English or Shona. Nearly all the children were in elementary school in grades 4-7. Many farm children undergo…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Agricultural Laborers, Child Labor, Child Rearing
Abbott-Chapman, Joan – Youth Studies Australia, 2001
In rural Australia, education beyond year 10 involves leaving home. Rural families may influence young people to stay home. Family influence and culture should not always be considered a deficit, for the family provides support when jobs are scarce. Rural families' social capital and rural resilience should be considered in developing rural school…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Dropouts, Education Work Relationship, Educational Attitudes
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National Catholic Rural Life Conference, Des Moines, IA. – 1950
Written in 1939, this book outlines fundamental Catholic principles and policies that address problems associated with the agricultural system and rural living during the early 20th century. The manifesto was derived from Catholic social philosophy and espouses the benefits of an occupation in agriculture, including the development of private…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Agriculture, Catholics, Christianity
McConnell, Catherine – 1994
A counselor at a rural high school in New York reflects on her career and addresses issues facing rural school counselors. She chose a career in school counseling based on her interests in education, community involvement, and adolescents. As the only high school counselor for 280 students, she soon realized that rural youth faced many of the same…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Community Attitudes, Community Problems, Counselor Role
Onushkin, V.; Zubkov, V. – 1982
This report details the history of making higher education available to young workers and peasants in the USSR since the October Revolution of 1917. The paper is organized into six sections. The first section introduces the paper and outlines the educational system in the Soviet Union, especially the types of higher educational institutions. The…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Admission Criteria, College Admission, Educational History
Enochs, Larry G. – 1988
This paper studies the needs and strengths of rural schools with the intent of improving rural science education. It examines the history of rural schools, and posits a rural-to-urban continuum of characteristics, citing studies that indicate rural schools are more effective in some ways than urban schools. The paper looks at needs of rural/small…
Descriptors: Achievement Rating, Community Development, Community Support, Educational Quality
Nadel, Wendy; Sagawa, Shirley – 2002
This report draws on research, statistics, and the voices of rural young people to document the extent and causes of rural child poverty, and related problems and reasons for hope in specific focus areas. About 2.5 million rural children are chronically poor. Rural poverty is concentrated in central Appalachia, the deep South, the U.S.-Mexican…
Descriptors: Brain Drain, Child Health, Child Welfare, Children
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Toepfer, Conrad F., Jr. – Journal of Research in Rural Education, 1997
Examines the need to help rural youth become employable in today's changing circumstances, especially young adolescents in middle school programs. Discusses elements in effective School-to-Employment (STE) programs, basic job skills appropriate to middle-school exploratory STE programs, and the need for program articulation between middle and high…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Early Adolescents, Education Work Relationship
Gudenberg, Karl A. – 1981
Rural work-education councils are free-standing voluntary associations of community leaders averaging around 21 to 25 voting members who are organized by task-specific action committees working to improve and expand educational and economic development options and thus ease the education-to-work transition in rural America. There are currently…
Descriptors: Community Characteristics, Community Organizations, Cooperation, Economic Development
Christopherson, Victor A.; Dingle, Steven F. – 1979
Caught between the Anglo and Navajo worlds, the Navajo youth of Arizona are at home in neither. Material rewards beckon from the Anglo world, but high schools have not provided the educational background to enable the youth to secure those rewards. Instead the schools have merely created in the students a discontent with traditional Reservation…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indian Reservations, American Indians, Cultural Background
Bloodsworth, Gaston; Fitzgerald, Doris – 1993
Education reform mandates that teachers be able to function competently in multicultural classrooms. This paper describes a culturally aware teaching model designed to address the problems and needs of rural at-risk students. The major goal of the model is to empower students through acceptance, understanding, respect, and appreciation of both the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cooperative Learning, Cultural Awareness, Elementary School Students
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