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Direct linkJohn C. Hayvon – Studies in the Education of Adults, 2024
While considerable research exists on school availability, education deserts, and school choice, "geography of opportunity" emerges as a theoretical framework to support new solutions towards equality. Intersections between Freirean theory and discourse analysis surface in existing evidence-base, as "availability" emerges as…
Descriptors: Educational Opportunities, Equal Education, Access to Education, Transportation
Download full textAndrew J. Van Leuven; Tessa Conroy – Journal of Extension, 2025
The childcare sector holds vital implications for community development. Overcoming barriers to access and affordability requires a nuanced understanding of this complex sector, a requirement that is further complicated by limited data availability. This paper reviews key data sources and uses historical business data to explore and analyze trends…
Descriptors: Economics, Data Use, Child Care, Access to Education
How Arts-Based Adult Community Learning Transforms Community Well-Being: From Isolation to Belonging
Abbie Cairns – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2025
This paper explores the pivotal role of arts-based adult community learning (ACL) in the UK, highlighting ACL's broader impacts on well-being, including social, emotional, and mental health, and belonging for diverse groups of adult learners. ACL has a social role at individual and group levels; future research might tackle the latter potential in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Education, Art Education, Community Education
Rufus Glasper – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2024
As educators reconsider higher education's public good mission, community colleges face a monumental task. These colleges still serve a student population that includes many low-income, traditionally underrepresented, first-generation college students with family and job responsibilities that demand their attention. For community colleges, the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Sense of Community, Student Experience, School Culture
Angela Marie Thatcher – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Emerging adults in rural, boom-bust economies face unique challenges, especially in employment and education. Drawing on emerging adult and social disruption hypothesis literatures, this study examined four primary research questions. First, how do emerging adults in rural boom-bust towns in southwest Wyoming understand and experience boom-bust…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Employment, Migration, Community Development
Ocansey, Sylvia; Adusei, Aaron – International Journal of Multidisciplinary Perspectives in Higher Education, 2022
This research explored the power of dominant partnerships in promoting community development. Two local communities sited in a coastal West African town, recorded notable transformation as a result of their members' long-standing interaction with a famous close by higher education institution. With a sample of three hundred and seventy-two…
Descriptors: Community Development, School Community Relationship, Reputation, Health
