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Direct linkGavin Moodie; Leesa Wheelahan – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2025
This paper argues that colleges anchor their communities by developing knowledge and skills within their region; establishing links and exchanges outside the region; contributing to civic, political, cultural, and social activities and networks in their region; developing facilities and amenities used by the community; and, contributing to their…
Descriptors: College Role, School Community Relationship, Postsecondary Education, Cooperation
Lee, Michael G. – Religious Education, 2008
This article sets Dorothy Bass' Christian practices movement in critical dialogue with U.S. Latina/o popular religion in order to explore ways that these distinctive sets of practices could enrich one another. Then, it focuses on "shaping communities" as a Christian practice and correlates it with the U.S. Latina/o popular religious…
Descriptors: Religion, Religious Factors, Religious Education, Christianity
Brennan, Mark A. – Child Care in Practice, 2008
In Europe and in America there is a growing recognition of the need for theory, research, and applied programs that contribute to both community and youth resiliency. This article seeks to build on previous theory and literature to provide a conceptual framework for understanding the mechanisms for linking community and youth resiliency. Included…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, Foreign Countries, Social Networks, Community Development
Schneider, J.; Leydens, J. A.; Lucena, J. – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2008
Sustainable development initiatives are proliferating in the US and Europe as engineering educators seek to provide students with knowledge and skills to design technologies that are environmentally sustainable. Many such initiatives involve students from the "North," or "developed" world building projects for villages or…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Community Development, Educational Objectives, Outcomes of Education
Dluhy, Milan; Swartz, Nicholas – Social Indicators Research, 2006
There are over 200 identified community based indicator projects in the United States. This paper reviews the factors that contribute to the success and failure of community indicator projects and discusses the types of desired outcomes that communities are trying to achieve. Both organizational and political factors contributing to the success of…
Descriptors: Public Policy, Community Programs, Quality of Life, Community Development
Download full textBryden, John M. – 2000
There was a notable transition in the nature, content, and administration of rural policies in many developed nations in the 1980s and 1990s. These changes concerned issues of governance and institutional framework, the definition of "development," and policy goals and content. A key question, however, concerns the extent to which shifts…
Descriptors: Community Development, Decentralization, Developed Nations, Economic Development
