Perceptions of community development held by Saskatchewan's community college personnel
Date
1981
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Masters
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the perceptions of
community development held by personnel in Saskatchewan's community college
system.
A criterion based model of community development was established
and used as the basis for the development of an instrument which measured
the perceptions of those who participated in the study.
Data were obtained from 143 respondents. This included a description
of the group in terms of selected variables and the investigation
of relationships between these variables and the respondents' perceptions
of community development.
The respondents were also asked to react to six issues relating
to the community college's ability to carry out community development.
These responses were compared with their perceptions of community development.
Relationships between perceptions and each of the study variables
were examined using analysis of variance. Significant relationships were
judged to be those having a chance occurrence of less than 5%.
Significant differences were found in the perceptions of those who:
(a) reported various levels of training in community
development;
(b) reported various levels of self-assessed knowledge of
community development;
(c) disagreed on Issue No. 4 which dealt with the role the
colleges should assume respecting controversial issues.
The replies of respondents on the nature of their training and
experience in community development and their reasons for positions
taken on the issues showed that in many cases, their interpretations of
community development were very broad.
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Master of Continuing Education (M.C.Ed.)
Department
College of Education
Program
College of Education