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  1. Community Development Journal

    Publishing research on a wide range of topics, the journal adopts a broad definition of community development to include policy, planning and action as they impact on the life of communities.

  2. Topics

    Housing segregation in the United States. The effect of racism on home lending and its relationship to housing segregation. How race affects buying homes in Manhattan, Kansas. Negative effect of environmental toxins. The exposure of different racial communities to environmental toxins. The exposure of Nicodemus, Kansas to outdated farming ...

  3. Community Development and Social Development: Informing Concepts of

    Serving as editor of Community Development, the peer-reviewed journal of the Community Development Society, I was asked by Bruce Thyer, editor of Research on Social Work Practice, if I would like to exchange guest editorials.I was excited by the prospect and quickly agreed. This request was particularly appropriate, given recent progress in our respective fields.

  4. Community Development Approaches, Activities, and Issues

    The community development activities and projects of each of the six agents appear to be influenced by different approaches. The following is a brief discussion of these six approaches. The community-driven development (CDD) approach is led by the World Bank as a funder and designer of the approach.

  5. Latest articles from Community Development

    Browse the latest articles and research from Community Development. Log in | Register Cart. Home All Journals ... Wealth creation: A new framework for rural economic and community development. 1st Edition, by Shanna E. Ratner, New York, Routledge, 2020, 162 pp., US$38.95 (paperback), ISBN-13: 978-036725742.

  6. Community-Engaged Research: Common Themes and Needs Identified by

    Participants identified many areas as essential to the development of strong and productive partnerships: fostering trust and mutual respect, balancing expertise across community and aLHS partners, investing time, facilitating open communication, embracing conflict as a strategy for resolution, and overcoming barriers (including addressing ...

  7. Empowering Communities: A Comprehensive Guide to Community Development

    Community development is a dynamic and participatory approach aimed at enhancing the well-being and quality of life within a specific community. It involves engaging community members ...

  8. Community Development

    Community Development is a peer-reviewed academic journal published five times per year. The journal aims to advance theory, research, practice, and teaching that serves purposive community change. The scope of the journal embraces all specializations within the interdisciplinary field of community development, including social, economic, and ...

  9. PDF Introduction to the Research Handbook on Community Development

    4 Research handbook on community development research. In the first part, we focus on theories and essential or foundational concep-tions about community development. This provides the platform on which to build and explore subsequent ideas and application. The second part presents an array of research

  10. Community Research for Community Development

    Community Research for Community Development Download book PDF. Download book EPUB. Overview Editors: Marjorie Mayo 0 ... makes to strengthen community development and consequently promote active citizenship and social justice. ... Topics: Social Policy, Politics of the Welfare State, Education Policy, ...

  11. Community-Driven Development Overview: Development news, research, data

    Community and Local Development (CLD) programs operate on the principles of transparency, participation, local empowerment, demand-responsiveness, greater downward accountability, and enhanced local capacity. Context. Strategy. Results. Experience has shown that when given clear and transparent rules, access to information, and appropriate ...

  12. Exploring community engaged research experiences and preferences: a

    Community engagement may make research more relevant, translatable, and sustainable, hence improving the possibility of reducing health disparities. The purpose of this study was to explore strategies for community engagement adopted by research teams and identify areas for enhancing engagement in future community engaged research. The Community Engagement Program of the Johns Hopkins ...

  13. (Pdf) Community Development and Community Participation: a Conceptual

    Community development is a process where members of community are supported by government, individuals and agencies to identify and take collaborative actions on issues affecting members which are ...

  14. Community-Based Research: Understanding the Principles, Practices

    The epistemology of community-based research can be traced back to many roots—Karl Marx, John Dewey, Paulo Freire, C.W. Mills, Thomas Kuhn, and Jane Addams to name but a few. Community-based research as it is practiced today has been enriched by the diversity of thoughts, methodologies, and practices that has been its foundation.

  15. Research on Social Work Practice Community Development and Social The

    Abstract. As a pluralistic field of scholarship and practice, community development offers insights useful to social development, especially the realm of social work. Among these contributions, of particular interest are the ways in which place matters. Assessing conceptualizations of community and community development, this essay addresses ...

  16. Topics

    Topics. What we're working on now. Community engagement Charitable giving Child Tax Credit Higher education Racial inequities in health Social safety net. Research areas. Taxonomy Terms. Aging and retirement. Child welfare. Children and youth. Climate change, disasters, and community resilience.

  17. Youth Participation in Community Development: Issues and ...

    Youth Participation in Community Development: Issues and Implications. November 2023. DOI: 10.1007/978-981-99-4969-4_25. In book: Handbook of Youth Development (pp.443-455) Authors: S. Lalitha. To ...

  18. Towards a More Connected Field of Community Development Education

    As society continues to shift and progress, the field of community development becomes more salient to the well-being and sustainability of rural and urban communities. Globalization, global pandemics, technological change, and devolution are among several issues impacting the well-being of rural townships and urban neighborhoods nationally and globally. Post-secondary community development ...

  19. PDF Community-Engaged Research with Community-Based Organizations

    Paula Fleisher,MA. This is one of a series of manuals developed by the UCSF Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) Community Engagement Program on conducting community-engaged and translational research. This guide was prepared by the Community Academic Research Engagement (CARE) Committee of the Community Engagement Program.

  20. Keywords

    Keywords. This brief video (0:59) from the University Library at UNC Greensboro explains how to turn your research question into useful keywords. If you would like more practice with keywords, check out the rest of their tutorial! PATH: Lighting Your Way From Research to Writing ( UNCG Libraries) / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transcript.

  21. PDF The Community Development Context of Research

    Chapter 3 :: The Community Development Context of Research49. community development. is barely acknowledged. Indeed, the very foundation for understand-ing community change is barely known among all these researchers and students who are trying to "partner" with communities around the world. 5. This chapter is designed to bring the

  22. Theses and Dissertations (Development Studies)

    The primary objective of this study was to analyse the contributions and challenges of civil society in governance and development and state-civil society relations in the context of post-1991 contemporary Ethiopia. To ... Children's empowerment through digital learning: case studies from rural Tanzania .

  23. Community Development Research Topics & Dissertation Titles

    We aim at providing a thorough exploration of community-related topics, with a particular focus on those highlighting community problems, community-based studies, and broader community-related issues. Indeed, community research is a vast and expansive field, touching upon myriad facets of human experience and societal interactions.

  24. Raising the profile of community-engaged research

    "Community-engaged research takes so much time, so much labor, so many resources - that's a barrier to entry for a lot of students," Park said. "This fellowship supports students to do ...

  25. How to engage your business in community and economic development

    In a follow-up interview, Isaacs discussed how to start investing locally in community and economic development. 1. Build a ladder to your bigger vision. Begin by identifying a concrete goal to be achieved or a problem that needs solving. Picture what the finish line looks like and then create smaller "ladder rung" goals with memorable ...

  26. How the freshly selected regional centres will bolster the

    At the fourth meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Implementation (SBI 4) of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the Parties selected 18 regional organizations spanning the globe in a multilateral push to bolster the implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, also known as the Biodiversity Plan, through science, technology and innovation: Africa: The Central ...

  27. [2405.19119] Can Graph Learning Improve Task Planning?

    Task planning is emerging as an important research topic alongside the development of large language models (LLMs). It aims to break down complex user requests into solvable sub-tasks, thereby fulfilling the original requests. In this context, the sub-tasks can be naturally viewed as a graph, where the nodes represent the sub-tasks, and the edges denote the dependencies among them ...