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University-Community Partnerships for Transformative Education: Sowing Seeds of Resistance and Renewal
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Mara Welsh Mahmood, Editor; Marjorie Elaine, Editor; John Cano, Editor – Palgrave Macmillan, 2024
This open access edited volume reports on a unique network of innovative in-school and out-of-school programs, University-Community Links. UC Links connects university faculty and students with young people and their families in diverse communities around the world. Chapters in this volume describe programs in the United States (California) as…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, College School Cooperation, Universities, Transformative Learning
At Our Best: Building Youth-Adult Partnerships in Out-of-School Time Settings. Current Issues in Out-of-School Time
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Brion-Meisels, Gretchen, Ed.; Fei, Jessica Tseming, Ed.; Vasudevan, Deepa Sriya, Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2020
"At Our Best: Building Youth-Adult Partnerships in Out-of-School Time Settings" brings together the voices of over 50 adults and youth to explore both the promises and challenges of intergenerational work in out-of-school time (OST) programs. Comprised of 14 chapters, this book features empirical research, conceptual essays, poetry,…
Descriptors: Adults, Youth, Role, Activism
Education and Sustainability: Learning across the Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Divide. Routledge Research in Education
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MacPherson, Seonaigh – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
This book critically examines the impact of migration, education, development, and the spread of English on global bio-linguistic and cultural diversity. Derived from findings from a comparative eco-linguistic study of intergenerational language, culture, and education change in the Tibetan Diaspora, the book extends its analysis to consider the…
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Linguistics, Achievement, Migration
The Basic School: A Community for Learning. Advance Copy.
Boyer, Ernest L. – 1995
Noting that academic failure begins early and that the focus of school reform should be at the elementary level, this book describes the Basic School, an idea based on best practice in elementary education. A Basic School pushes school reform back to the first years of formal education; gives priority to language and suggests a coherent core of…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, After School Programs, Art Education, Class Size
Annual Review of Adult Learning and Literacy. Volume 1. The Jossey-Bass Higher and Adult Education Series.
Comings, John, Ed.; Garner, Barbara, Ed.; Smith, Cristine, Ed. – 2000
This book contains eight papers on adult learning and literacy. "The Year 1998 in Review" (Fran Tracy-Mumford) examines educational legislation and policy and developments in adult education program development, program accountability, strategic alliances and partnerships, and instructional methodologies and technologies. "Lessons…
Descriptors: Accountability, Adolescents, Adult Education, Adult Learning