caa a22 4500 397576021 CHVBK 20180308164856.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161202e199601 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1093/cdj/31.1.44 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)oxford-10.1093/cdj/31.1.44 Fussell Weyman Dr. Fussell works for the Peace Corps of the United States as an agriculture programming specialist within the Office of Training and Program Support The Value of Local Knowledge and the Importance of Shifting Beliefs in the Process of Social Change [Elektronische Daten] [Weyman Fussell] An analysis is presented of the process whereby beliefs and values evolve within communities as a product of daily experiences that lead the collective whole of a community to draw pragmatic conclusions about the nature of its social reality. The information that is gleaned from an experience event is translated into knowledge after passing through a filter where the existing values and beliefs shape the meaning of the information, leading to a revised world view which opens new possibilities for the way the community sees and reacts to the world around it. The resulting model of social change is used to provide a framework for defining the role of facilitators who aspire to accelerate the development process. © Oxford University Press Articles nationallicence Community Development Journal Oxford University Press 31/1(1996-01), 44-53 0010-3802 31:1<44 1996 31 cdj https://doi.org/10.1093/cdj/31.1.44 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1093/cdj/31.1.44 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Fussell Weyman Dr. Fussell works for the Peace Corps of the United States as an agriculture programming specialist within the Office of Training and Program Support NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Community Development Journal Oxford University Press 31/1(1996-01), 44-53 0010-3802 31:1<44 1996 31 cdj Metadata rights reserved CC BY-NC-4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-oxford