The challenges metropolitan regions, cities and towns, neighborhoods, and villages face require community development skills that address complex community problems, engage multiple publics, and pursue collective strategies. However, there is no consensus about how community development should be taught due to its various understandings, theories, and approaches. The article presents the results of a community development educator survey and illustrates a diversity of responses to educational delivery among forty-eight respondents representing twenty-seven community development programs in the United States. We compare the perspectives of respondents who teach in planning programs with other community development educators to discuss commonalities and differences.

大城市地区，城镇，街区和村庄面临的挑战要求社区发展技巧解决复杂的社区问题，吸引多个公众参与并奉行集体战略。但是，由于社区发展的各种理解，理论和方法，对于如何教授社区发展尚无共识。本文介绍了社区发展教育者调查的结果，并说明了代表美国27个社区发展计划的48位受访者对教育交付的多种反应。我们将在计划计划中教学的受访者的观点与其他社区发展教育者的观点进行比较，以讨论共同点和差异。