The Nature of Community Robert L. Warren* The idea of the American community is deceptively simple‚ as long as one does not require a rigid definition. The term evokes a rich imagery associated with the "country village‚" the "small town‚" or the "big city" of an earlier day. One thinks of the country village’s Main Street‚ with its several stores and post office‚ and the streets‚ houses‚ and lawns that immediately surround it in the setting of an enveloping prairie‚ dairy-farm country‚ or forest
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contribute to the development of a civic-minded society but should contribute too. There are many ways that teenagers can contribute to the development of a civic-minded society. Firstly‚ teenagers today are in greater contact with the larger community than any preceeding generation. This enables them to be key prospects of fostering a common identity with others‚ which is the basis for compassion and acting the best interests of others. With exchange programs‚ online interactions and an increasingly
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NSTP101 Community Development What is the relevance of community development to NSTP? Objectives of Community Development To contribute to the general welfare and the betterment of life of the people in the community. To facilitate the promotion‚ sustainability‚ support and maintenance of the community action. Community - communities of place: defined by distinct boundaries and bound by a common political‚ economic and social system - communities of interest: a group of individuals
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Learning 1.Nature lends a helping hand by providing animals with a set of built in inherited skills that functions at birth or shortly thereafter. * These skills are called reflexes. Some reflexes like sucking provide necessary biological supports. Other reflexes are ready made‚ swift and simple reactions to stimuli that pose a potential threat. * An example of a fixed action pattern would be salmon swimming up stream to spawn or birds seasonal migration. 2.Learning is a way that a
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MAPÚA-NSTP ON-LINE LEARNING EXERCISE SUMMARY REPORT Prepared by : Calma‚ Armie M. Section: AY02 Date: 5/21/2013 Activity Title: Chapter 12 HOMEWORK NO. 4 GROUP NO. 3 Reminder: Use arial font; size - 12; single –spaced. (Your answers should be in narrative format and do researches to provide more suitable responses.) Answers: 1. In your own understanding‚ What is Community Organizing? Community organizing is a process where people come together to strengthen
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The concept of requiring community service of college students as a requirement for graduation is based on the idea that communities and individuals can be helped in their development through volunteer service. Community service provides the opportunity for students to share their knowledge‚ skills‚ and abilities with someone who might not have benefited from such actions otherwise. Community service should be a requirement for college graduation because it helps to alleviate problems of society
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Further Education: Lifelong Learning‚ Inclusion and Community Values in Further Education (Hyland‚ T and Merrill‚ B (2003)). I will address the questions "Lifelong learning what is it? and who is it for?" and add my own thoughts and questions. Lifelong Learning The term lifelong learning’‚ indicates that learning does not stop at the end of compulsory education‚ it is a continuous process and can continue throughout a person’s life. The use of the word learning’ as opposed to education’ indicates
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Eastern Samar State University GRADUATE SCHOOL Borongan City SUBJECT: ED 609 ALTERNATIVE LEARNING SYSTEM TOPIC: COMMUNITY ORGANIZING ADVOCACY AND SOCIAL MOBILIZATION REPORTER: AMADO B. TAMARES JR. M.A. IN EDUCATIONAL MANAGEMENT PROFESSOR: DR. VIOLETA A. AFABLE COMMUNITY ORGANIZING | DEFINITIONS OF COMMUNITY ORGANIZING Community Organizing * Refers to the framework and methodology used by social development workers in empowering people’s organization as a way of addressing
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E-Tivity 2: Community of Inquiry Introduction The area we choose for Community Profiling was the town of Portlaoise‚ Co Laois. Rationale The rationale for this area was to pick an area that would be useful to one of the three of us rather than an area that would not be beneficial to any of us. The consensus then was the Portlaoise town as the Community Nurse covers that area and is reasonably new in her position. It also allowed the Community Nurse to become more aware of what was
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