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Willits, Fern K.; Luloff, A. E. – Rural Sociology, 1995
A mail survey of 1,524 adult residents of Pennsylvania cities found positive images of rural places and a desire to preserve rural areas and lifestyles. Recreational visiting of rural areas by urban people was related to age, gender, education, income, and the desire for rural preservation. Social visiting was related to support for rural…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Beliefs, Cultural Images, Public Opinion
Chambers, Robert – New Ground, 1993
Discusses Participatory Rural Appraisal, a research method that shifts the impetus for research in rural development from outside experts to rural people. Residents do their own investigations, share their knowledge, and own the outcomes. Rather than use standard questionnaires, information gathered is represented in visual form using maps,…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Environmental Research, Participatory Research, Research Methodology

Akande, M. – Community Development Journal, 1992
The Isoya Rural Development Project appears to have enhanced Nigerian women's multiple roles (maternal, occupational, conjugal, domestic, kin, community, and individual). Limitations of the project include poor rural infrastructure, male-oriented cultural norms, and lack of direct access to land by women. (SK)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Economic Development, Females, Foreign Countries

Madu, Ephraim N.; Umebali, Emmanuel E. – Community Development Journal, 1993
A survey of 23 chairpersons of town unions (rural sociocultural organizations) in Nigeria indicated that self-help projects in education and rural development were concentrated in areas lacking infrastructure. Recommendations were made for an organizing framework, leadership training, government assistance, and efforts to encourage active…
Descriptors: Community Development, Community Organizations, Cooperatives, Foreign Countries
Swanson, Louis E. – Rural Sociologist, 1991
Progress toward rural development has been hampered by flawed views of rural America; serious limitations to existing social and economic data on sparsely populated areas; treatment of rural America as a geographical entity unconnected to the larger U.S. economy and society; perceived lack of feasible political solution to rural problems; and…
Descriptors: Agriculture, Economic Development, Government Role, Information Needs

Dancey, John – Convergence, 1994
The Institute for Integrated Rural Development in the Maharashtra State of India seeks to break the cycle of poverty through sustainable rural development. It works closely with rural women on health and nutrition education and in other community partnerships based on horizontal structures. (SK)
Descriptors: Economic Development, Females, Foreign Countries, Partnerships in Education

Brown, Jo B., Comp. – Journal of Appalachian Studies, 1998
Classified, selected bibliography for Appalachian Studies includes over 400 entries: books, journal articles, government documents, and dissertations published 1996-97. Contains 25 categories including agriculture; Appalachian Studies; architecture, historic sites; arts, crafts; Civil War; coal, industry, labor; description, travel; economic…
Descriptors: Appalachian Studies, Regional Characteristics, Rural Development, Rural Education
Hoffman, Carl – Appalachia, 1999
A nonprofit community action agency, BusinesStart, provides business training and small loans to entrepreneurs in 18 rural counties in southwestern Virginia and northeastern Tennessee. The entrepreneurs, many with no previous business experience, cite the agency's basic business training as key to their success. (SV)
Descriptors: Basic Business Education, Disadvantaged, Entrepreneurship, Rural Areas
Robinson, Clinton – International Journal of Educational Development, 2007
Context is a key factor in designing and delivering adult learning programmes, and in multilingual environments the choice of language plays a decisive role. Four programmes, two in Asia (Bhutan Myanmar) and two in Africa (Ghana and Uganda), which focus on learning for development, integrate language considerations in different ways, related both…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multilingualism, Adult Learning, Adult Education
Pitzel, Gerald R.; Benavidez, Alicia C.; Bianchi, Barbara C.; Croom, Linda L.; de la Riva, Brandy R.; Grein, Donna L.; Holloway, James E.; Rendon, Andrew T. – Rural Educator, 2007
The Rural Education Bureau of the New Mexico Public Education Department has established a program to address the special needs of schools and communities in the extensive rural areas of the state. High poverty rates, depopulation and a general lack of viable economic opportunity have marked rural New Mexico for decades. The program underway aims…
Descriptors: Economic Progress, Poverty, Foreign Countries, Rural Development
Chaboux, Collette – Academy for Educational Development, 2006
This case study describes the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC), which was formed to explore ways to help children from its rural development program gain access to improved education. Working mainly in rural areas, BRAC focused on improved quality through improved education service delivery, management detail, and finance. While…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Primary Education, Rural Areas, Rural Development
Laurent, Catherine; Cerf, Marianne; Labarthe, Pierre – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2006
If farmers are to meet the new challenges facing agriculture (environment, rural development, etc.), appropriate knowledge has to be produced. But observations in six EU countries (France, Germany, Greece, the Netherlands, Spain and the UK) show that unexpected problems arise when technical support for agriculture is linked to market regulation,…
Descriptors: Knowledge Level, Rural Extension, Foreign Countries, Agriculture

Coombs, Philip H. – Indian Journal of Adult Education, 1975
Descriptors: Dropouts, Educational Planning, Educational Programs, Foreign Countries
Wolff, Anthony – Design and Environment, 1975
If economic recovery occurs, land development and construction will revive simultaneously with land-use controls. Already the Federal government has affected land use by passing the Coastal Zone Management Act and the Clean Air Act. The states have also initiated land-use regulations concerning community planning and environmental quality. (MR)
Descriptors: Community Development, Community Zoning, Dropouts, Environment

Galjart, Benno F. – Rural Sociology, 1975
Descriptors: Change Agents, Cultural Context, Developing Nations, Dropouts