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New Frontiers in Education, 1976
The rural development program described here works toward integrating education with problems of the masses in Maharashtra, India. Seventeen graduates from six universities and a rural institute live in the villages and work in agricultural development and extension (providing supervision and demonstration) and in social education and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, College Graduates, Community Development, Developing Nations
Development Communication Report, 1978
Communication planning in developing countries is discussed in individual articles on theory, knowledge production and utilization, planning at the regional level, software, and rural development. A nutrition education project and three experiments in developing educational materials with feedback from villagers in Africa are described in the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Developing Nations, Information Utilization, Mass Media
Commonwealth Association for the Education and Training of Adults. – 1988
This document reports on a training workshop on educating adults and on the birth of a new professional association. Section A describes the workshop's rationale, purpose, participants, environment, atmosphere, field trips, study groups, inauguration of the Commonwealth Association for the Education and Training of Adults (CAETA), speeches, and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Cooperative Programs, Curriculum Development, Developing Nations
Peer reviewedSingh, Himmat; Yadava, J. P. – Indian Journal of Adult Education, 1978
Describes a study to find out the impact of education on rural adults and their families through surveys of farmers in two villages in India, with and without educational facilities. Results clearly indicated improved agricultural practices and positive educational attitudes for the educated villagers, with implications for improved rural…
Descriptors: Adult Farmer Education, Attitude Change, Community Development, Developing Nations
Khan, Akhter Hameed – 1978
One hundred years of rural development in India is surveyed, tracing the impact of colonial administration up to and including the decades of independence--an administration built on elitism, centralism, and paternalism. Four major rural problems of famine, abuses of land tenure, peasant indebtedness, and rural disaffection and how political…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Agriculture, Change Agents, Change Strategies
THOTA, VYKUNTAPATHI – 1966
AN OUTGROWTH OF MISSIONARY AND VOLUNTEER EFFORTS, THE INDIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM HAS FOUR OBJECTIVES--(1) TO ASSIST EACH VILLAGE IN PLANNING AND CARRYING OUT INTEGRATED MULTI-PHASED FAMILY AND VILLAGE PLANS DIRECTED TOWARDS INCREASING AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION, (2) TO IMPROVE HEALTH PRACTICES, (3) TO PROVIDE THE REQUIRED EDUCATIONAL…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Programs, Agriculture
