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Carlson, Dale R. – Community and Junior College Journal, 1980
Examines the use of a community telephone survey at Worthington Community College (MN) to predict which off-campus and evening classes would have the highest enrollment in Fall 1979. Discusses the survey questions and examines the use of findings to schedule classes and increase enrollments. (JP)
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Community Study, Courses, Declining Enrollment
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Herzfeld, Michael – Ethnic Groups: An International Periodical of Ethnic Studies, 1980
Considers the idiom of ethnic discrimination in one small and extremely "closed" Greek village, with the object of demonstrating the artificiality of the prejudice-xenophobia distinction in an ethnographic context. Uses a "folk taxonomy" model which examines the relativistic sense in which group stereotypes are applied.…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Community Study, Ethnic Bias, Ethnic Stereotypes
Vozab, Patricia A. – Teacher, 1981
Talking with local merchants helps sixth-graders explore the impact of change in their community. (Editor/SJL)
Descriptors: Community Study, Economic Change, Field Interviews, Grade 6
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Newman, Judith M. – Language Arts, 1989
Describes a database course project which engages students in designing and developing their own data files. Asserts that the discussions which take place as students collect, organize, share their data, and consider ethical issues which arise from the proliferation of information systems, are most important. (RAE)
Descriptors: Access to Information, Community Study, Database Design, Databases
White, Joyce E.; Valentine, Virginia L. – Nursing and Health Care, 1993
To teach community health assessment to nursing students, videotaped segments of real community situations were incorporated in an interactive simulation program that leads students through the processes of data collection and evaluation. (SK)
Descriptors: Community Study, Computer Simulation, Higher Education, Medical Evaluation
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Harrison, Neil – Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 2007
Research in Indigenous Australian education is at a dead-end. Researchers are still heading out into the field to look for new knowledge to answer old questions. The same epistemology dominates how we look, and where, while the methodology provides the researcher with a forced choice, one where either the student or the teacher is blamed for the…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Foreign Countries, Epistemology, Indigenous Knowledge
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Schildkraut, Ira J. – Social Science Record, 1974
A high School independent study course in village government analyzed and reported on the suitability of the present governmental structure of the community. (Author/KM)
Descriptors: Community Study, Independent Study, Local Government, Program Descriptions
Coon, Richard H.; West, Gale E. – 1984
The phenomenological methods used to analyze the unique characteristics contributing to the stability of a small mid-western rural town may be useful tools for community researchers, providing an inexpensive, non-technical, humanistic-interpretive research approach. General concepts associated with community success were formulated through direct…
Descriptors: Community Characteristics, Community Study, Cultural Background, Municipalities
Allen, Barbara; Montell, William Lynwood – 1981
This guidebook examines the kinds of oral history materials available to local researchers and presents ways to evaluate and interpret those materials. There are six chapters. Chapter one describes the relevance and scope of local history, the role of the interviewer within the community, the contributions that oral sources can make to local…
Descriptors: Community Study, Evaluation Criteria, Historiography, Interviews
Torok, Andrew G. – 1979
Five methods for determining the needs and aspirations of the total library community (library personnel, library affiliates, and general population) in Illinois are presented in this report, and the use of three of them for a 3-phase study is outlined: (1) survey of the literature (documentary research and secondary data collection and analysis);…
Descriptors: Community Study, Community Surveys, Data Analysis, Libraries
Giovannoni, Jeanne M.; Becerra, Rosina M. – 1979
In seeking to clarify the meaning of the terms "child abuse" and "child neglect" it has been assumed that, like other forms of social deviance, they are socially defined phenomena. Interviews were conducted with those professionals (lawyers, pediatricians, police officers, and social workers) who daily handle the problems of…
Descriptors: Administration, Child Abuse, Child Neglect, Community Study
SMITH, RALPH B. – 1965
A POPULATION INCREASE OF 71 PERCENT IS EXPECTED IN UTAH BETWEEN 1960 AND 1980. THE GREATEST GROWTH IS EXPECTED IN THE SALT LAKE METROPOLITAN AREA. THE COLLEGE AGE GROUP (18 TO 21 YEARS) WILL INCREASE BY 80 PERCENT BETWEEN 1960 AND 1970. IF CONSERVATIVE ESTIMATES ARE USED, THE PROPOSED JUNIOR COLLEGE COULD EXPECT AN ENROLLMENT OF APPROXIMATELY…
Descriptors: College Planning, Community Study, Construction Costs, Educational Facilities
HARRIS, NORMAN C.; RUSSEL, JOHN H. – 1966
SEVERAL PROPOSALS FOR COMMUNITY COLLEGES ARE DISCUSSED. FACTORS ARE PRESENTED WHICH RULE OUT A LOCAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOR THE ADIRONDACK LAKES REGION AND THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A BRANCH OF THE CANTON AGRICULTURAL-TECHNICAL COLLEGE IN THE LAKES AREA. CONSIDERATION SHOULD BE GIVEN, THOUGH, TO THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A COMMUNITY COLLEGE IN OR NEAR…
Descriptors: College Planning, Community Study, Educational Finance, Enrollment Projections
JONASSEN, CHRISTEN T. – 1965
NORMATIVE SOCIAL AND CULTURAL FACTORS RELATING TO THE PROCESS OF SCHOOL REDISTRICTING AND CONSOLIDATION WERE IDENTIFIED AND DESCRIBED, AND SOME OF THE INTERRELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN THESE FACTORS DETERMINED. SUCH DATA COULD BE USED DURING A SCHOOL DISTRICT REORGANIZATION PROCESS BY BOTH EDUCATORS AND ADMINISTRATORS TO MINIMIZE TENSION AND MITIGATE THE…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Community Study, Cultural Influences, Group Unity
Eakle, Arlene H.; And Others – 1976
The pamphlet traces the social history of Woods Cross, Utah from pioneer arrival in 1847 through 1976. Each street of the town serves as the focal point for a discussion of the role of each family in the town's history. Content includes establishment of railway lines and a depot, growth of water companies and recurrent local water problems,…
Descriptors: Community Change, Community Study, Family Involvement, Local History
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