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Hartman, Sara L., Ed.; Klein, Bob, Ed. – Harvard Education Press, 2023
As editors Sara L. Hartman and Bob Klein acknowledge, rural places have long experienced systemic inequities that decrease rural students' access to education, yet many rural schools and communities have found creative means to make up for the dearth of outside resources. "The Middle of Somewhere" brings to light a wide variety of…
Descriptors: Rural Education, Partnerships in Education, Elementary Secondary Education, School Community Programs
Caspe, Margaret, Ed.; Hernandez, Reyna, Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2023
Family and Community Partnerships: Promising Practices for Teachers and Teacher Educators, offers a fresh new look at the competencies, strategies, and practices that effective educators develop to build strong partnerships with families and communities. Written by leaders in the field, the book is an outgrowth of a cutting-edge initiative led by…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Family Involvement, Community Involvement, School Community Relationship
Nind, Melanie, Ed.; Strnadova, Iva, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2020
This book pushes the boundaries in the way we approach people with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities, and in how we work with them in education and research. While it is grounded in diverse theoretical frameworks and disciplines, the book coheres around a commitment to seeing people with profound intellectual and multiple…
Descriptors: Severe Intellectual Disability, Multiple Disabilities, Inclusion, Equal Education
Howley, Caitlin, Ed.; Redding, Sam, Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2021
Rural life is more complex than it is perhaps credited. This edited volume explores several themes that highlight such complexities, particularly in terms of what they imply for rural teaching and learning. These themes include the geographic, demographic, and socioeconomic diversity within and across rural communities; the notion that rurality is…
Descriptors: Rural Education, Rural Population, Rural Areas, Community Characteristics
McNair, Tia Brown, Ed.; Bonneville, Lucie, Ed. – Association of American Colleges and Universities, 2021
In 2019, twenty community colleges joined Strengthening Guided Pathways and Career Success by Ensuring Students Are Learning, a two-year project led by the American Association of Colleges and Universities. The project draws on the guided pathways framework to support institutions as they (1) map academic pathways and degree programs to student…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, College Role, Academic Degrees
McGuinn, Nicholas, Ed.; Ikeno, Norio, Ed.; Davies, Ian, Ed.; Sant, Edda, Ed. – Routledge Research in Education, 2021
This book brings together respected international academics and practitioners from citizenship and drama to debate, share their experiences and plan a way forward for academic and professional best practice in drama and citizenship education for a democratic society. Drawing on international contributions, the chapters explore fundamental ideas…
Descriptors: Drama, Citizenship Education, Debate, Best Practices
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Joanna Madalinska-Michalak, Editor; Maria Assuncao Flores, Editor – Palgrave Macmillan, 2025
This book explores the nature of teacher and school resilience in times of uncertainty, and how resilience can be nurtured within individual schools and educational systems as a whole. Innovative approaches to exploring these concepts are presented, as well as the role of educational research and practice in providing opportunities for…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), Foreign Countries, Teachers, Schools
Balme, Christopher B., Ed.; Hakib, Abdul Karim, Ed. – Online Submission, 2023
Theatre for Development is one of the most dynamic and controversial theatre movements on the global South. Emerging in Southern Africa in the 1970s to address social and economic problems using theatrical techniques, today it is taught in theatre departments across sub-Saharan Africa and employed in numerous contexts from health care to…
Descriptors: Theater Arts, Developing Nations, Economic Development, Financial Support
Bastedo, Michael N., Ed.; Altbach, Philip G., Ed.; Gumport, Patricia J., Ed. – Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023
Whether it is advances in information technology, organized social movements, or racial inequality and social class stratification, higher education serves as a lens for examining significant issues within American society. First published in 1998, "American Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century" offers a comprehensive…
Descriptors: Higher Education, COVID-19, Pandemics, Race
Givens, Marlee, Ed.; Slutskaya, Sofia, Ed. – ALA Editions, 2022
Technical services departments are increasingly expected to do more with less, which means that finding a balance between meeting service demands and developing staff knowledge and skills is more challenging than ever. Today's next gen catalogs, changing cataloging rules, and diverse formats and delivery models demand that technical services…
Descriptors: Organizational Change, Libraries, Library Services, Staff Development
Kashif Raza, Editor; Catherine Siew Kheng Chua, Editor – Springer, 2025
Responding to the Fourth Industrial Revolution and generative AI, this book unites global scholars and practitioners to examine emerging innovations and challenges in Work-Integrated Learning (WIL) for adult learners. Through eight case studies, the volume examines how WIL programs can better support adult learners by enhancing delivery models,…
Descriptors: Work Based Learning, Adult Learning, Diversity, Work Environment
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Anne Johnson, Editor; Susana Rodriguez, Editor; Robin Schoen, Editor; Committee on Building Impactful Collaborative Platforms in the Land-Grant System, Contributor; Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources, Contributor; Division on Earth and Life Studies, Contributor; Board on Higher Education and Workforce, Contributor; Policy and Global Affairs, Contributor – National Academies Press, 2025
The public colleges and universities established in 1862, 1890, and 1994 as part of the land-grant system have historically played an important role in bringing the assets of institutions of higher education to bear on the public good. This report describes how the land-grant institutions can increase their collective impact for the public good by…
Descriptors: Institutional Mission, Land Grant Universities, Educational Development, Capacity Building
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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
Stuart, Timothy S., Ed.; Callaway, David, Ed. – Solution Tree, 2022
Dive into the possibilities of moving toward a personalized approach to education. With contributions from educators around the world, "PLCs at Work® and the IB Primary Years Programme" examines practices from envelope-pushing schools within the International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme (PYP) and shows how the tenets of…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Interdisciplinary Approach, Individualized Instruction, Advanced Placement Programs
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Jacobs, George M., Ed.; Crookes, Graham V., Ed. – SpringerBriefs in Education, 2022
This book puts forth a call to engagement for educators at all levels of education and in all subject areas, with a focus on language education. Through using a grounded theory approach, it features semi-structured interviews, in a qualitative approach, with educators who embody community engaged education. Each chapter encompasses a case study…
Descriptors: School Community Relationship, Poverty, Novels, Racism
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