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Gillard, Spring; VanWynsberghe, Rob – Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education, 2021
This research paper is based on a broader exploratory case study of a sustainability tour that the authors undertook. The larger study explored "the concept of learning application through the case of a sustainability tour" (Gillard, 2016, p. 226 ). The tour was part of a certificate program for sustainable community development offered…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Community Development, Environmental Education, Professional Continuing Education
Araneta-Merin, Jewish – International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education, 2018
Parenting Education aims to reinforce families and increase parenting practices. This study intended to evaluate the efficiency of the delivery of the Parenting Education Platform and its value in attaining the program purposes tailored to address specific needs, organized parent-child undertakings, and accessed community services and supports in…
Descriptors: Parent Education, Parent Child Relationship, Community Services, Foreign Countries
Le, Ai Tam Pham – International Review of Education, 2018
Community learning centres (CLCs) have been widely established in the Asia-Pacific region as locally managed institutions that offer non-formal educational opportunities and community development activities. Myanmar officially has more than 3,000 centres, which is one of the highest numbers in the region. This article examines the operation of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Nonformal Education, Community Programs, Community Development
Beyea, Wayne; Menon, Rohit; Crawford, Pat – Journal of Extension, 2016
In an era of increasing complexity, the majority of local land-use decisions in the United States are made by volunteer citizen planners. Often these elected or appointed volunteers enter their positions with a passion for their communities but without appropriate background training. The Michigan Citizen Planner Program was developed to address…
Descriptors: Land Use, Citizen Participation, Continuing Education, Volunteers
Zivkovic, Sharon – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2019
While active citizenship education programs are assumed to have positive benefits for the active citizenship practice of participants (UNESCO, 2009, p. 4), there is actually little evidence that programs do (de Weerd, Gemmeke, Rigter & van Riji, 2005, p. vii). This paper discusses a research project that aimed to determine and increase the…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Sustainable Development, Program Effectiveness, Power Structure
Schecter, David; Junn, Ellen; Cole, Kimberly – Metropolitan Universities, 2011
In this article we take a closer look at a developing university-community engagement project being undertaken between California State University, Fresno, and the City of Fresno. A history of the project is provided, along with a review of the relevant literature and a summary of what pieces of the puzzle we feel should be in place for a…
Descriptors: School Community Relationship, Program Descriptions, School Community Programs, Partnerships in Education
Keating, Kari Hall – ProQuest LLC, 2011
As rural communities experience rapid economic, demographic, and political change, program interventions that focus on the development of community leadership capacity could be valuable. Community leadership development programs have been deployed in rural U.S. communities for the past 30 years by university extension units, chambers of commerce,…
Descriptors: Community Leaders, Evaluation Research, Extension Education, Rural Areas
Woodhouse, Janice Lynn – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This dissertation examines the phenomenon of how communities can effect change in policy and practice to support greater ecological and cultural sustainability. The general purpose of this research is to examine selected local initiatives for ecological and cultural sustainability to better understand the role of adult education in those efforts.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Environmental Education, Sustainable Development, Local Issues
Urquieta-Salomon, Jose E.; Tepichin-Valle, Ana Maria; Tellez-Rojo, Martha Maria – Evaluation Review, 2009
The objective of this study is to evaluate the impact of a pilot study that promoted productive and capacity-building activities among deprived rural women of Mexico. The evaluation design is observational; 1,278 women are interviewed, and the comparison group is estimated by propensity score matching. The results show a positive impact on the…
Descriptors: Females, Pilot Projects, Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries
Apaliyah, Godwin Tayese – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This study examined community leadership education programs employed in rural communities and organizations of several states to empower both local leaders and residents. In particular, the study investigated the relationships between community leadership education program design and structure (contact hours and content) and six outcome indices of…
Descriptors: Community Leaders, Field Trips, Community Development, Program Design
Nasiruddin, Md. – Online Submission, 2013
Each night, around 20,000 people--both adults and children--make the streets of Dhaka (the capital city of Bangladesh) their home. Living amongst the noise, rubbish, and traffic, thousands of families walk down the streets of Dhaka, looking for a safe place to rest for just a few hours each night. Trapped in a vicious cycle of poverty, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Homeless People, Emergency Shelters
Noguchi, Fumiko – Online Submission, 2010
Since its establishment in 2003, the Japan Council on the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD-J) has paid close attention to informal learning processes in community-based efforts to promote local sustainable development. ESD-J carried out two projects to collect information on and visualise community-based ESD practice: the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sustainable Development, Informal Education, Community Programs
Kearney, Judith; Zuber-Skerritt, Ortrun – Learning Organization, 2012
Purpose: This paper aims to: extend the concept of "The learning organization" to "The learning community," especially disadvantaged communities; demonstrate how leaders in a migrant community can achieve positive change at the personal, professional, team and community learning levels through participatory action learning and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Action Research, Disadvantaged, Cultural Awareness
Hansen, Lexine Tallis – ProQuest LLC, 2010
International community development is a fertile area of research for environmental education scholars and practitioners. Although the community development field is well established, there is relatively little focus on education and learning in community development literature, especially in developing country settings. Particularly,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Community Development, Global Approach, Scholarship
Hall, Donna Jo – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Beginning in the 1970s, low-wage manufacturing areas in advanced industrialized countries experienced deindustrialization and worker dislocation as transnational corporations left for sites of lower-cost labor. In response, communities sought to rebuild their economies and pursue new employment opportunities in the restructured labor markets of…
Descriptors: Structural Unemployment, Economic Progress, Human Capital, Dislocated Workers
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