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Peer reviewedMcConnell, Charlie – Community Development Journal, 1991
Provides an overview of the issues facing community development in Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, Ireland, and the United Kingdom. Discusses possibilities for international cooperation across Europe in the 1990s. (SK)
Descriptors: Community Action, Community Development, Community Organizations, Foreign Countries
Royal Society, London (England). – 1985
Based on the premise that science and technology directly affect a wide range of personal activities and impact policy issues of national and international importance, this report aims to show why it matters that all sections of the public should have some understanding of science and to stimulate action by scientists and others to improve this…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Communications, Community Attitudes, Community Education
Peer reviewedBenington, John – Community Development Journal, 1991
The Single European Market will have serious effects on employment, production, and consumption in the United Kingdom. Of particular concern to voluntary and community organizations are the skills, gender, and racial gaps in the labor force. Organizations must develop the capacity to think and work within a European framework. (SK)
Descriptors: Centralization, Community Development, Community Organizations, Economic Impact
Peer reviewedRoker, Debra – Journal of Adolescence, 1994
Presents brief introduction to school-based volunteering in Britain. Details history of young people's involvement in voluntary work and community service, and range of activities, both local and national, that are now being undertaken. Discusses relationship between volunteering and citizenship. (Author/NB)
Descriptors: Community Services, Elementary School Students, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedStancliffe, Roger J.; Emerson, Eric; Lakin, K. Charlie – Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, 2001
This introductory article discusses major Australian deinstitutionalization initiatives and presents data on trends in institutional living in Australia, the United States, and the United Kingdom. All three countries continue to witness a fall in the institutional population of people with intellectual disability and an increase in community…
Descriptors: Adults, Attitude Change, Change Strategies, Children
Peer reviewedJournal of Intergroup Relations, 1984
Summarizes discussion at an international conference of human rights professionals in 1982. Addresses such topics as: police-community relations, education and the mass media, the roles of human rights agencies, affirmative action, the impact of new technology, new challenges in dealing with discrimination, and coalition-building. (KH)
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Agency Role, Civil Liberties, Emerging Occupations
Central Office of Information, London (England). – 1982
This pamphlet discusses the situation of ethnic minorities--particularly those of Caribbean, Asian, or African origin--in the United Kingdom. Following introductory material, the background to immigration in Britain is described and the numbers and geographic distribution of the different ethnic groups are discussed. Next comes a general…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Bilingual Education, Blacks, Cultural Pluralism
