1st Edition

Keeping Kennedy's Promise The Peace Corps: Unmet Hope Of The New Frontier

By Kevin Lowther Copyright 1978
    172 Pages
    by Routledge

    172 Pages
    by Routledge

    This book is about the intense and emotional experience for the volunteers and staff of the Peace Corps, and about how terribly difficult it is for them to work in an alien culture. It is intended as catharsis for all who believe that the Peace Corps has not lived up to its promise, but that it can.

    1. Lessons in Leadership 2. The Numbers Game 3. Programming: Neither Fetish Nor Free-Lance 4. Community Development: A "Revolutionary" Concept 5. Teaching for Teaching's Sake 6. Strange Transformations 7. A Technically Oriented People 8. Recycling the Peace Corps