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Rural America, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1977
Recommendations which emerged from the Second and Third National Conferences on Rural America are presented in this revised platform of principles and policy recommendations for rural America. Major goal of the document is to find practical solutions to problems facing rural people so that strategies of rural revitalization and action can be…
Descriptors: Agricultural Production, Change Strategies, Community Development, Conference Reports
Download full textBaldwin, Barbara, Ed. – Western Wire, 1995
Articles in this theme issue are based on presentations at the Pathways from Poverty Workshop held in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on May 18-25, 1995. The event aimed to foster development of a network to address rural poverty issues in the Western Rural Development Center (WRDC) region. Articles report on outcomes from the Pathways from Poverty…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Capitalism, Change Strategies, Community Development
Beaulieu, Lionel J., Ed.; Mulkey, David, Ed. – 1995
This book provides an overview of existing human resource conditions in rural America; examines key economic, social, and technological forces shaping the future viability of rural areas; describes human capital issues for rural women and minority groups; and outlines strategies to strengthen rural human capital resources. Chapters are: (1)…
Descriptors: Community Development, Economic Change, Economic Development, Education Work Relationship
French, Kenneth M. – 1981
This manual is designed to provide development workers with the information and tools needed to begin or to improve poultry production. Covered in the individual chapters are the following topics: the nature and scope of poultry production, assessment of local poultry selections, basic information about chickens, country chickens, poultry…
Descriptors: Agribusiness, Agricultural Education, Agricultural Production, Agricultural Skills
Leonard, David – 1981
This manual, primarily designed to help Peace Corps volunteers develop and strengthen their agricultural skills, deals with traditional field crops. The focus of the manual is on surveying and interpreting local agricultural environment and individual farm units, developing agricultural extension techniques and practices, and providing basic…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Agricultural Production, Agricultural Skills, Agronomy
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Bangkok (Thailand). Regional Office for Education in Asia and the Pacific. – 1981
The report of a regional seminar on rural development planning specifies as its objectives: to study the problems of rural development planning, and to elucidate training requirements for managers of rural development projects, with particular reference to the links between education and productive work and employment. The first chapter gives…
Descriptors: Community Development, Community Involvement, Cooperative Planning, Cooperative Programs
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Bangkok (Thailand). Asian Centre for Educational Innovation for Development. – 1982
The five studies on education for rural development are directed to teachers, administrators, and others concerned with education in rural areas in their efforts to raise the social and economic status of the rural poor. The Indian study discusses the problem of wastage at the primary school level (with specific reference to Tamil Nadu), and…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Agency Cooperation, Community Education, Community Involvement
Fitzsimmons, Stephen J.; Freedman, Abby J. – 1981
The study documents what happened in 10 rural communities when a federal educational funding program (Experimental Schools) in 1972 provided 5-year grants for demonstration projects designed both to improve the school system and, through the schools, to address a variety of community needs. The study employs two strategies to document the ways in…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Change Strategies, Community Attitudes, Community Change
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
Bokhari, Khalid H.; Eastmond, Jefferson N. – 1977
Successfully field tested in four villages in the Federal Capital Area, Pakistan, the model is designed to: identify and prioritize village concerns and educational needs; validate and analyze the needs with respect to village values and goals; and select, develop, implement, and evaluate a best solution. Major steps in the model are: data…
Descriptors: Attendance, Change Agents, Change Strategies, Community Action
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Bangkok (Thailand). Regional Office for Education in Asia and Oceania. – 1980
This seminar report contains summaries of presentations as well as entire reports and addresses made at the Regional Seminar on Technical and Vocational Education in Asia and Oceania held in Singapore in November 1979. Chapter 1 summarizes the trends, problems, and innovations in technical and vocational education which were identified in…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Continuing Education, Curriculum Development, Developing Nations
Frese, Wolfgang, Ed. – 1980
A total of 47 papers representing the broad research and extension interests related to rural areas are included in this volume. The 13 sessions are entitled Rural Structure and Process, Industrialization, Migration, Health and Alcohol, Quality of Life, Occupations and Work, Applied Sociology, Education, Network Analysis, Poverty, Status…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Area Studies, Comparative Analysis, Consumer Economics
Bernal, Hernando; And Others – 1977
Three papers are included in this document designed to provide English language information about characteristics and activities of Accion Cultural Popular (ACPO) a private, nonprofit organization concerned with improving the quality of life of rural populations and promoting rural development through mass media education programs. "Pioneer…
Descriptors: Church Role, Communications, Cultural Influences, Educational Radio
Baskerville, Roger A. – 1979
The Lohrville Career Education Model (LCEM) is a successful program to influence the decision of rural high school students to remain in the community after graduation and to help them examine local occupational opportunities and potential. The LCEM consists of a 7-unit course in local history, rural living, rural economy, rural attitudes,…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Career Choice, Career Education, Career Exploration
BOHRSON, RALPH G. – 1962
APPROXIMATELY 176 BOOKS AND ARTICLES PUBLISHED BETWEEN 1912 AND 1961 ARE LISTED IN THIS BIBLIOGRAPHY ON RURAL EDUCATION AND THE SMALL SCHOOL. EMPHASIS IS PLACED ON GENERAL REFERENCES, BUT ABOUT ONE QUARTER OF THE LISTINGS ARE PLACED UNDER SPECIFIC SUBJECT HEADINGS SUCH AS BUILDINGS, CONSOLIDATION, LIBRARY SERVICE, ETC. THE ENTRIES ARE…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Buildings, Business Education, Community
