Rural development in the highlands of North America: the Highlander Economic Education Project
The Highlander Center, a non-profit adult education centre in Tennessee, USA, offers night classes to help poor communities "undertake a process of education and participatory research through which they could assess their own situation, define and implement strategies for themselves." This article describes the methods used, such as oral histories, community surveys, community mapping and community theatre. A series of publications available from the Highlander gives more details of these methods.