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Benge, Matt – Journal of Extension, 2023
Understanding and identifying the professional development needs of 4-H youth development professionals should be the first step in developing the Extension workforce. However, 4-H professionals find it challenging to use the Professional, Research, Knowledge and Competencies (PRKC), which consists of 348 unique competency items, to guide…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, Extension Agents, Competence, Professional Development
Harrison, Ursula; Ollis, Tracey – Studies in Continuing Education, 2023
Neighbourhood Houses in Australia are community place-based organisations that provide education, support services, and develop responses to local issues with local communities. The practices within Neighbourhood Houses are informed by community development. Yet knowledge, understanding and practices of community development vary across the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Labor Force Development, Community Development, Place Based Education
Briscoe, Patricia – Journal of Leadership Education, 2022
This exploratory case study adds to the growing literature on leaders and leadership development in communities experiencing poverty in the global south. It explores how leadership is conceptualized among community-identified leaders in Muñoz, Dominican Republic. Drawn from semistructured interviews, the eight participant narratives provide…
Descriptors: Poverty, Case Studies, Leadership Training, Human Capital
Kimura, Rikio – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2020
This case study, by using transformative learning underpinned by critical realism, explores how a contextualised and non-confrontational rights-based approach by a Cambodian non-governmental organisation (NGO) has influenced rural citizens' agency in fulfilling their rights to development. The NGO, by working closely with the government, has…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Nongovernmental Organizations, Civil Rights, Rural Areas
Guenther, Karl J.; Swanstrom, Todd; George, Thomas F. – Metropolitan Universities, 2019
Increasingly, suburban universities find themselves in communities facing challenges that inner cities have had to deal with for decades, including concentrated poverty, housing vacancy, and underperforming school districts. While the problems are similar, the institutional context is different. Compared to central cities, suburban municipal…
Descriptors: Institutional Mission, Suburban Schools, Universities, School Community Relationship
Franco, Isabel B.; Tracey, James – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2019
Purpose: Although the value of community capacity building is widely accepted within scholarly literature, these initiatives thus far appear to have achieved very little impact in the achievement of community development aspirations. This paper aims to increase knowledge regarding specific priority areas which when targeted will result in more…
Descriptors: Capacity Building, Sustainable Development, Community Development, Goal Orientation
Walcott, Eric; Triezenberg, Heather A. – Journal of Extension, 2020
We conducted research to examine 1862, 1890, and 1994 land-grant and Sea Grant Extension program leaders' perceptions about Extension public policy education (PPE). Most agreed that PPE is important work. Existing PPE has focused on issue-oriented community development, natural resources, or agriculture topics. Our results indicate that there is…
Descriptors: Extension Education, Extension Agents, Financial Support, Grants
Baaoum, Mohammed – International Journal of Modern Education Studies, 2018
The goal of the paper is to provide guidelines for building a comprehensive model that fosters humanitarian engineering education. The paper brings the voice of field practitioners and students, in addition to academic research, to determine the most critical attitudes, skills, and capacity building practice for empowering humanitarian engineers.…
Descriptors: Humanization, Engineering Education, Capacity Building, Educational Change
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
Gordon, Ivy Veronica – Journal of Learning for Development, 2014
The Jeffrey Town model for community development has been effectively applied to the rural community of Jeffrey Town in Jamaica with Information and Computer Technology (ICT) as a key element. The farmer's association is the vehicle that has driven the change. Included is a brief outline of the community plus highlights of the tangible and…
Descriptors: Community Development, Models, Community Organizations, Agricultural Occupations
Hinton, Lee; Lucas, Erin; Zoubak, Ekaterina – ZERO TO THREE, 2020
Leadership in infant and early childhood mental health must take into consideration issues of diversity, historical context, power dynamics, and difference in worldview and experiences. This article describes the importance of equitable and effective partnerships with rural/remote, underserved, and Indigenous communities in the United States and…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Rural Population, Geographic Isolation, Cultural Relevance
Duke, Chris – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2015
Most learning takes place in communities, neighbourhoods and workplaces. Here practical solutions to big problems work or fall down. We may call this the iron law of social learning, recognised in "community development", "community capacity-building", "workplace", "work-based" and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Lifelong Learning, Community Development, Workplace Learning
Back, Susan Malone; Tseng, Wan-Chun; Li, Jiaqi; Wang, Yuanhua; Phan, Van Thanh; Yeter, Ibrahim Halil – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2015
As a requirement for a federal neighborhood revitalization grant, the authors trained resident interviewers and coordinated the conduct of more than 1000 door-to-door interviews of a stratified random sample. The targeted area was a multiethnic, lower income neighborhood that continues to experience the effects of past segregation. Monitoring and…
Descriptors: Interviews, Neighborhoods, Racial Segregation, Community Development
Melo, Veriene – Education Sciences, 2019
Actualizing education beyond the scope of traditional schooling and incorporating elements of critical pedagogy and social transformation are essential for efforts aiming to reduce inequalities and enhance the livelihoods of excluded populations. This article examines emancipatory education through a Freirean lens by considering its dimensions of…
Descriptors: Theory Practice Relationship, Freedom, Critical Theory, Social Action
Snider, Brent; Southin, Nancy – Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education, 2016
Campus Club Cupcakes is an in-class "introduction to operations management" experiential learning exercise which can be used within minutes of starting the course. After reading the one-page mini case, students are encouraged to meet each other and collaborate to determine if making and selling cupcakes to fellow business students would…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Business Administration Education, Experiential Learning, Case Method (Teaching Technique)
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