Discusses the elements useful for developing a conceptual framework for social change efforts: the characteristics of the social problem, the target unit, the nature and intensity of purposes for change, and the appropriate change methods. (Author/JOW)

Discusses the potential of community education programs for organizing and coordinating efforts to solve a wide variety of social problems, but cautions against the danger of overselling community education as a cure-all for society's ills. (JG)

Community education has the task of building, not a new world, but creating an improved world, opening new paths of learning here and now, new paths for a larger public. (Author)

Because community education is both collectivist and democratic, it would allow Russians to continue collectivist traditions, give them a format for addressing specific social problems, and clear up misconceptions about democracy. (SK)