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Direct linkIrving, Catherine J. – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2010
Amidst calls for libraries to regain their socially progressive roots and connections to community, this study analyzes two interwoven cases of nonformal, community education in northeastern Nova Scotia, initiated by libraries that aimed to revive those links. Through a reading circle and a people's school, librarians used historical materials on…
Descriptors: Community Education, Adult Education, Libraries, Foreign Countries
Dodds, Tony – 1972
A three part report first discusses some problems of rural development, education, and the mass media. The second, and basic part, consists of case studies which detail of projects which used various media in rural education programs in Africa, Canada, Europe, and India. And the third part is largely subjective and hypothetical: it is an attempt…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Correspondence Study, Developing Nations, Extension Education
Carron, Gabriel; Carr-Hill, Roy A. – 1991
This report summarizes what was learned from a series of studies on nonformal education (NFE) conducted in the last half of the 1980s by the International Institute for Educational Planning and draws lessons from these studies for planning and policy making. Source material includes four national case studies in Argentina, Canada, Hungary, and the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Comparative Education, Developed Nations, Developing Nations
Spain, Peter L.; And Others – 1977
Use of radio for nonformal education and development communications and the technical and economic considerations related to radio services are covered in this second volume of case studies on use of radio for education and development. Under radio and nonformal education are: an evaluation of radio schools as part of the popular promotion…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Agricultural Education, Case Studies
Hall, Budd, Ed.; And Others – 1982
This book, consisting of 13 papers, deals with the theory, practice, and reactions to participatory research in the area of social research for development. Included in the volume are the following papers: "Breaking the Monopoly of Knowledge: Research Methods, Participation, and Development," by Budd Hall; "Creating Alternative…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Case Studies, Community Programs, Educational Research
Download full textSmith, Dorothy E.; Dobson, Stephan – 2003
Researchers explored the relationships between the great working class communities and the industries they sustained and were sustained by in terms of production, storage, and transmission of skills. First, the ethnographic literature on industrial workplaces and the working class communities associated with them was reviewed. Next, lengthy…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Case Studies, Employer Employee Relationship, Employment Practices
