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Direct linkAndolina, Molly W.; Conklin, Hilary G. – American Educational Research Journal, 2020
This research examines the factors that shape high school students' experiences with an action civics program--"Project Soapbox"--that fosters democratic and social-emotional learning. Drawing on pre- and postsurveys with 204 students, classroom observations, teacher interviews, student work samples, and student focus group interviews,…
Descriptors: Social Development, Emotional Development, Civics, Citizenship Education
Wright, Dana E. – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
Community change approaches have increasingly involved participatory practices in which community members directly impacted by an issue participate in implementing change efforts. However, community participation as a practice and approach does not always include youth participation. Within the field of youth organizing, young people are…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, Citizen Participation, Activism, Capacity Building
Ferrie, Gina M.; Bettinger, Tammie L.; Kuhar, Christopher W.; Lehnhardt, Kathy; Apell, Peter; Kasoma, Panta – Applied Environmental Education and Communication, 2011
Although there are many conservation education projects working in Uganda, there is currently little evaluation of educational initiatives in the communities. A survey was developed to better understand the environmental knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors of people in 2 districts of Uganda. The main environmental problem listed by the respondents…
Descriptors: Conservation Education, Conflict, Wildlife, Environmental Education
Marshall, Joanne M. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2012
The Boone Hope Foundation has given away over $130,000 in gift cards, rent checks, and eyeglasses--all targeted to help students with emergency needs related to food, clothing, shelter, and healthcare in its rural Iowa community. This is the story of teachers from a typical Midwestern school--relatively small and certainly not affluent--who have…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Rural Schools, Student Needs, Homeless People
Georgakopoulos, Alexia; Hawkins, Steven T. – Campus-Wide Information Systems, 2013
Purpose: This study aims to present Dramatic Problem Solving Facilitation Model (DPSFM) and Interactive Management (IM) as innovative alternative dispute resolution approaches that incorporate communication technologies in recording and analyzing data. DPSFM utilizes performance-based actions with facilitation methods to help participants design…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Information Technology, Computer Uses in Education, Computer Software
Terry, Alice W.; Bohnenberger, Jann E.; Renzulli, Joseph S.; Cramond, Bonnie; Sisk, Dorothy – Roeper Review, 2008
At the 2006 National Association of Gifted Children Conference, a panel presentation addressed the importance of providing gifted children with opportunities to take positive social action through service-learning; this article is a result of that discussion. The Future Problem Solving Program (among others) has a community problem-solving…
Descriptors: Community Needs, Community Problems, Gifted, Service Learning
Dardar, T. Mayheart – American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 2008
The majority of the Houma people live in the southern portions of Lafourche and Terrebonne parishes in south Louisiana. This author grew up in the Houma community that had formed in lower Plaquemines Parish, about thirty miles north of the mouth of the Mississippi River. The Houma community there was centered near the town of Venice with extended…
Descriptors: Ecology, American Indian History, American Indian Studies, Cultural Education
Download full textNakashian, Mary – Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 2008
Researchers from the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University prepared a case study of CODES (Community Outreach and Development Efforts Save). CODES is a coalition of 35 people and organizations in northern Manhattan committed to promoting safe streets, parks and schools. The case study analyzed the factors that prompted CODES'…
Descriptors: Public Health, Physical Activities, Outreach Programs, Urban Areas
