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METHODS, TRAINING & MATERIALS DEVELOPMENT

Nurturing Participation: A Facilitator's Introduction to Adult Nonformal Education and Participatory Training
Dr. Bonnie B. Mullinix

This manual provides facilitators with a session-by-session guide for introducing participants to nonformal education and participatory training, components central to any community development or adult basic education or literacy effort. It covers a 33 contact hour Training of Trainers (ToT) Workshop designed to be delivered over four intensive, residential days. The manual includes detailed session plans and all references, handouts and materials needed to facilitate the training. Although originally designed for use by NGO Trainers of Literacy Workers, it can easily be adapted for use in other contexts and settings.

Critical Games
Developed by Mary Jo Connelly, Jane T. Benbow, Deborah Fredo and Maria Diarra Keita. Edited by James Cummings

Four games designed to stimulate critical thinking about the effects of structural and cultural issues on the process of social change: The Gender Game and The Education and Gender Game.

Effective Educational Radio: An Approach to Analyzing Programs
By James M. Theroux

The use of radio as an instructional tool requires analytical tools and concepts which link program variables to audience impact. The author discusses the range of variables that can be manipulated by a radio producer and offers a series of diagnostic questions for the design and analysis of educational radio programs.

Modules for Training Extension Workers with Handouts
By Martin Byram

A practical, field-based publication which provides training modules for extension workers in the areas of basic education needs; community mobilization needs; and work management skills. Loose leaf modules facilitate reproduction.

Teaching Non-Western Studies: A Handbook of Materials and Methods
By Stephen Guild, George Urch, and Robert Wilk

A handbook which provides methods and techniques that are designed to involve students in a variety of learning activities to broaden their perceptions of the world. The activities are student oriented and include an overview of approaches to teaching about the non-Western world. The hand-book includes models of non-Western studies programs and a list of major resources and curriculum projects in non-Western studies.

Learning Centered Training for Learner Centered Programs
By Suzanne Kindervatter

This is an account of a learner-centered workshop in materials and curriculum development for Thai nonformal educators. The author discusses the rationale for a learner-centered approach, its key characteristics and how to translate this approach into a workshop design. Appendices include materials developed from the Thai workshop.

Theater for Development: A Guide to Training
By Martin L. Byram Illustrated by Daniel C. Aryeequaye

A guide for village level trainers which describes the use of popular theater in development. It explores related issues and the impact of popular theater on community development and community awareness.

African Studies Handbook for Teachers
Edited by Margaret Maxwell (McLaughlin)

This handbook provides introductory lessons on Africa applicable to elementary and secondary levels. The lesson format is competency based and affective in purpose. The handbook includes a bibliography of literature and audio-visual materials about Africa.

Learning to Listen: A Field Guide to Methods of Adult Nonformal Education
By Jane K. Vella

This booklet describes practical ways to implement theories of adult learning. Adopting the perspective of the field worker, the author discusses ways of listening to groups, sharing rather than transmitting information, and methods of problem posing in education.  Includes the use of codes, role playing, games and folk material.     

Visual Aids for Nonformal Education
By Jane K. Vella

A valuable guide for field workers in nonformal education to create visual aids with materials that are available. The author draws on her work in Kenya and Tanzania to present numerous suggestions for the field worker to make inexpensive materials.

CIE Dissertation Abstracts: 1971-1997

This updated, fourth edition of dissertation abstracts by CIE members reflects the CIE’s commitment to theories of self-reliance and empowerment throughout the world. The document introduces the range of subjects studied by CIE members and serves as a useful guide for those engaged in a preliminary exploration of both conventional and alternative research methodologies.

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PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH AND PRACTICE

Nurturing Participation: A Facilitator's Introduction to Adult Nonformal Education and Participatory Training
Dr. Bonnie B. Mullinix

This manual provides facilitators with a session-by-session guide for introducing participants to nonformal education and participatory training, components central to any community development or adult basic education or literacy effort. It covers a 33 contact hour Training of Trainers (ToT) Workshop designed to be delivered over four intensive, residential days. The manual includes detailed session plans and all references, handouts and materials needed to facilitate the training. Although originally designed for use by NGO Trainers of Literacy Workers, it can easily be adapted for use in other contexts and settings.

The Participatory Process: Producing Photoliterature
By Bonnie Cain and John Coming

This note describes a step-by-step process for involving learners in the development, production and evaluation of various types of photoliterature including fotonovellas. Technical information on photographic techniques is presented to assist educators in the participatory process.

Participatory Research: An Annotated Bibliography
Compiled and Edited by the Center for Community Education and Action (CCEA) in collaboration with CIE.

This bibliography contains over 200 annotations of key articles, texts, and unpublished documents on Participatory Research (PR). Entries are included from the CCEA Resource Center, the previously published PRG annotated bibliography, articles and other resources. The text is indexed by key-words based on content of entries as well as critical concepts in PR.

Doing Participatory Research: A Feminist Approach
By Patricia Maguire

The author uncovers the biases of traditional research by engaging in  participatory research with a group of abused women in Gallup, New Mexico.  She uses Paulo Freire’s concept of dialogue to talk with the women, transcribes the interviews and presents the women in their own words as they move through a cycle of reflection and action to answer how to move forward in their lives after living with violent men. This creative work will involve the reader in both theory and practice.

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GENDER AND DEVELOPMENT

Participatory Evaluation Among Rural Women: Charting the Birth of Articulation and Power
By Jane Benbow

A description of a pilot project to integrate women in Rose Hall, St. Vincent, Barbados into rural development. The book details the process whereby the women chose their own path to development. Their successful activities include creating adult education and pre-school programs and building a community center, illustrating how women in Rose Hall “do” development through their leadership and vision for their community’s development. By addressing important theoretical and practical implications of the project, this book makes a valuable contribution to the women in development discourse.

Women in Development: An Alternative Analysis
By Patricia Maguire

An overview of the women in development effort (WID) that includes chapters on WID theory, critical analysis of AID and UN agency projects and alternative approaches to WID. A bibliography contains nearly 150 sources.

African Women Organizing: Four Ways of Seeing
By Marla J. Solomon

A study which looks at women’s organizations in Africa from various perspectives, including those which seeks “ways of seeing and knowing that move forward a feminist agenda,” and celebrates the experiences of being “woven in the text."

Gender and Development: Women Centered Training
By Janis Droegkamp and Fredi Munger

This note details issues and strategies pertinent to trainings for women. It outlines principles and assumptions behind women-centered training and presents a six-step training design. A variety of exercises are used throughout the text to help readers clarify their own attitudes toward the issues and practice their training skills.

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LITERACY

Nurturing Participation: A Facilitator's Introduction to Adult Nonformal Education and Participatory Training
Dr. Bonnie B. Mullinix

This manual provides facilitators with a session-by-session guide for introducing participants to nonformal education and participatory training, components central to any community development or adult basic education or literacy effort. It covers a 33 contact hour Training of Trainers (ToT) Workshop designed to be delivered over four intensive, residential days. The manual includes detailed session plans and all references, handouts and materials needed to facilitate the training. Although originally designed for use by NGO Trainers of Literacy Workers, it can easily be adapted for use in other contexts and settings.

Many Literacies: Modules for Training Adult Beginning Readers and Tutors
By Marilyn Gillespie, Illustrations by Kathy Searle

Twenty-seven modules designed and tested at Read/Write/Now Adult Learning Center in Springfield, Massachusetts provide teachers and tutors with research on literacy. Step-by step guidelines describe how to build a community of learners, set personal goals for learning and use life experiences to write and publish learner-generated materials.

Games and Simulation in Literacy Training
By David R. Evans

A monograph on “instructional technology” which presents innovative teaching-learning possibilities through games and simulations. Geared toward literacy workers and learners, it describes a variety of games and simulations from planning and design to implementation. Discussions of participatory learning and learner-control of these instructional technologies are interwoven in the text.

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COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

Partnerships for Community Development

This book is designed to help organizations and individuals working in associations, task forces, networks, councils, consortia and partnerships. Written for both beginning and seasoned practitioners and trainers, it provides a unique conceptual framework for analyzing collaborative efforts.  The book includes exercises to help develop concrete strategies to avoid common pitfalls and to create and sustain effective partnerships.

Power: A Repossession Model

This manual compares six major app-roaches to community organizing, and spells out a series of steps necessary to organize successfully for power.

Beyond the Experts: Citizen Group Training

This training of trainers manual helps the reader to develop a picture of the role that training can play in the development of any group, and takes the reader through a 7 step planning sequences for citizen group training.

Local Currencies in Community Development or Too Much Mngwotngwotiki is Bad for You
By Tony Savdie and Tim Mitchell

This useful resource guide for trainers and community activists discusses alternative currencies as part of creating alternative economic systems at the local level. The guide includes a case study of HOURS in Ithaca, New York and a discussion of the scripts and LETS alternative currency systems ands their usefulness to community-development.

Playing Their Game Our Way

A manual to help individuals and citizens’ groups understand U.S. federal, state and local governmental structures and information on how to lobby, and hold agencies and elected officials accountable.

Differences: A Bridge or a Wall

Designed to help groups and organizations gain a clearer understanding of differences in society, why they exist, and how to deal with them effectively.

Planning for A Change

Groups need to plan creatively in order to come up with innovative programs and strategies. This manual helps groups by providing specific methods in an easy-to- follow exercise format.

The Rich Get Richer & the Poor Write Proposals

A training manual that makes proposal writing and other aspects of the fund-raising process more understandable and manageable. The manual includes proposal writing, researching and potential funding sources, and other fund-raising approaches.

Networking: A Trainer’s Manual

A manual with 250 pages of activities and information based on a six stage developmental cycle that offers a practical process for turning the theory of networking into reality.

Learning Together:  A Cultural Approach to Community Development

A practical guide to understanding the real-life, complicated issues that arise when two cultures interact. The manual is organized around issues rather than as a step-by– step guide.: Part I, “A Conceptual Framework,“ introduces the concepts of cultural awareness and the process of cross-cultural adaptation. Part II, “Community Development Processes,” presents community development processes through the cultural lens introduced in Part I. Each chapter can be read independently or in conjunction with the other chapters.

Breaking the Boardroom

An annotated bibliography of books, journal articles, manuals and more on all issues necessary for effective boards and councils.

How to Make Citizen Involvement Work

An action guide that examines examples of citizen involvement and explores what citizen action can become. The manual includes a planning guide and a checklist for suggested strategies.

We Interrupt this Program: A Guide to Using the Media for Social Change

A manual for groups interested in knowing more about using the media as a community organizing tool and media.

Working Together (Group Process)

A step-by-step do it yourself manual that helps community groups build membership, improve participation and run smoother meetings.  The manual provides guidelines for process observation and other group process concerns.

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GLOBAL EDUCATION AND LIFELONG LEARNING

Global Education Handbook: Modules for Teaching Pre-School to Secondary School
By George Urch et al.

This handbook was developed to assist K-12 teachers who wish to introduce a global perspective into their curriculum.  The modules were developed by classroom teachers and include such topics as: "Anti-bias Curriculum: A Multicultural Perspective,” “The African Influence in Puerto Rican Music,” and “Multicultural Education: An Approach through Beauty, Fashion and Art.” Organized according to grade levels, each module is divided into a series of lessons complete with objectives and a detailed description of materials and activities.

Lifelong Learning Manual: Training for Effective Organizations

An action/resource guide to help raise the consciousness of those practicing education in non-school settings.

Beyond Schools: Education for Economic, Social, and Personal Development

This book presents a variety of case studies which illustrate the important education that takes place beyond formal schooling. Case studies range from a boat building apprenticeship program in Maine to a rural development project in Sri Lanka and provide a conceptual frame-work to understand the relationship among these varied educational approaches. The book explores use of the Lifelong Learning Scale as a diagnostic tool to enable practitioners to explore a wide variety of educational settings and make comparisons across fields. The analytical framework helps to translate the many languages used by trainers, consultants, counselors, and teachers in different work settings into a common set of questions, making dialogue, mutual learning, and linkages across fields more probable.

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NGO’s, OCCASIONAL PAPER SERIES

1. NGOs in Indonesia: Issues of Hegemony and Social Change
By Mansour Fakih 1991

This paper traces the role of NGOs in development, modernization and capitalism in Indonesia. It offers a typology of alternative NGO structures and paradigms which allows NGOs to transform development, involve people and create a counter-hegemonic movement.
 
2. NGOs in Latin America: Issues and Characteristics of NGOs Involved in Development
By Eloy Anello, 1991

Since the 1950’s, NGOs have featured prominently in education, development and social change movements in Latin America since the 1950’s. This paper provides concrete examples of the roles NGOs have played in research and development. An analysis of NGO characteristics and a functional typology based on their delivery of services, research focus and grassroots action is provided.
 
3. NGOs in the Sahel: Issues in Cooperation for Natural Resources Management
By Jonathan Otto, 1991

This paper explores NGOs working in natural resources management in the Sahel.  By combining historical perspectives and cultural analysis, the paper provides an overview of the issues and actions taken over the past 40 years. Special attention is given to national and international NGOs, grassroots organizations, donors and the governments involved.

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Publications Officer
Center for International Education
285 Hills House South
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA USA 01003

Phone: 413-545-0465
Fax: 413-545-1263
Email: cie@educ.umass.edu
Website: www.umass.edu/cie

CIE Return Policy:

The Center for International Education is dedicated to publishing materials at prices which are accessible to our colleagues and practitioners overseas. To maintain these prices, we operate with a minimum of overhead expenses. In most cases, we do not accept return requests. Exceptions can be made for frequent customers or minimal returns on large orders. If you are interested in returning materials purchased from CIE, you must call our office for verification number before your request can be accepted. Our publications office charges 20% of the original price for handling, and customers must cover the shipping costs of returning any materials.  Credit cannot be given for any materials returned or in damaged condition.

 
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