This study examines selected processes and unintended effects of the Bagong Lipunan Improvement of Sites and Services (BLISS) program in a Philippine rural community to determine the extent of its contribution to social change and development. BLISS is an integrated development program using nonformal education to extend benefits of education and skill training to the rural poor to build a self-sustaining community. The study describes and analyzes the values and interpretations of and cognitive orientations toward the BLISS project of the management, community leaders and selected participants in nonformal educational training components of BLISS. / The general theoretical orientation of this study is to regard the BLISS program as an organized, structured nonformal education movement aimed at mobilizing communities. Applying Paulston's typology of nonformal education in social movement, this study seeks to determine to what extent BLISS meets its goals as a mobilizing activity. La Belle's integrated development approach using nonformal education and Bock and Papagiannis' analytical framework for understanding the social and political implications of nonformal education are utilized to analyze the data. / The field research strategy combines participant observation, and social and ethnographic survey. Data was gathered by survey questionnaire on social and demographic characteristics of the BLISS participants. The general approach is participant observation. Open-ended interviews and documentary analysis provided support information for substantiating the participants' subjective views of their life situations and their perceptions of the value of the BLISS program. / The strategy selected for analysis makes it possible to determine: (1) to what extent BLISS is part of a political and social mobilization; (2) to what extent the changes in life situation--new houses of improved design, production cooperatives, specific skill training (nonformal education)--alter attitudes, beliefs, and values; and (3) the nature of the unintended effects of the BLISS program as well as social, economic and cultural implications. / This study hopes to contribute to policy makers' understanding of how development activities are perceived and understood and how they succeed or fail. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 43-03, Section: A, page: 0638. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1982.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_74784 |
| Contributors | GADIA-SOEGIARTO, LOURDES., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 293 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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