Community Development Bulletin, Volumen8,Tema 1

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Página 29 - The fact that a problem will certainly take a long time to solve, and that it will demand the attention of many minds for several generations, is no justification for postponing the study. And, in times of emergency, it may prove in the long run that the problems we have postponed or ignored, rather than those we have failed to attack successfully, will return to plague us. Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow; but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment.2...
Página 37 - The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life.
Página 18 - ... arithmetic. With the language barrier, which is never completely surmounted, much of even this hard-learned literacy is eventually lost. Schweng makes much the same point for his Altiplano community: In their educational effort, the schools were handicapped by the Government's insistence on using the schools as an instrument of "castellanizacion," for forcing the use of Spanish on non-Spanish speaking Indians to the exclusion of their native tongue. The mother tongue of the children of Pillapi...
Página 36 - Weschler, and Fred Massarik, Leadership and Organization: A Behavioral Science Approach (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1961), p.
Página 32 - It is, in fact, an experiment designed ' to reveal effective ways of teaching individual and group skills required for harmonious and productive living in modern society,' and to satisfy part of the need, truly designated as " appalling," for scientific information concerning inter-group relations.
Página 23 - The need for professionals and for government aid in the solution of community problems cannot be questioned, but unless this assistance is planned and applied in a way that will stimulate and awaken increased civic energy in our communities instead of putting them even more deeply to sleep, we can have every reason to expect that the environment of our cities will become less and less favorable to civic vitality and to a free, self-reliant problemsolving society. A further reason why the need for...
Página 31 - ... important learnings seem to result when individuals publicly confront previously unperceived discrepancies in their values, and when they receive nonjudgmental support in attempts to resolve these discrepancies. 4. Another objective is the development of concepts and theoretical insights which will serve as tools in linking personal values, goals, and intentions to actions consistent with these inner factors and with the requirements of the situation.
Página 31 - Emphasis is placed on the development of sensitivity to cues furnished by the behavior of others and ability to utilize "feedback" in understanding his own behaviors.
Página 34 - Democracy stresses the potential ability of people collaboratively to define and solve the problems they encounter in trying to live and work together. It posits that common problems cannot be well solved without the participation of those affected by the solution . . . (and) assumes a procedure of consensual validation as the final arbiter of the tightness of any collective judgement or arrangement . . . The democratic principle of 'consensus...
Página 24 - ... program. When the President of the United States says that America is going to share her storehouse of knowledge with the newly developing countries of the world the agriculturalist immediately and automatically translates that into manure piles, compost pits, and irrigation ditches. The home economist translates it into nutrition and child care. The educator translates it into school buildings and blackboards. The construction engineer translates it into public works. And the public health doctor...

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