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Download full textBrown, Aaron; Bauer, Michael – Athens Journal of Education, 2021
Engineers provide essential services to society, solving pressing challenges through technological inventiveness. Students new to engineering often cite the lure of creative problem solving as attracting them to the discipline. However, traditional engineering curricula typically focus on a narrow application of fundamentals for solving…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Service Learning, Community Development, Sustainable Development
Direct linkDamons, Bruce; Wood, Lesley Angelina – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2020
Schools in poor working class communities in South Africa face a myriad of equity challenges that impact negatively on their ability to achieve basic school functionality. Yet, within such communities, there exists a wealth of valuable local knowledge and support that can be mobilised to assist school leaders, not only to bring about school…
Descriptors: School Administration, School Community Relationship, Action Research, Participatory Research
Delica, Kristian; Elbeshausen, Hans – Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 2013
Introduction: Our paper describes three examples of how public libraries in at-risk-neighbourhoods have worked with social innovations in order to develop and strengthen their services for minority groups. The libraries were chosen because they are frontrunners in the field of cultural diversity and social inclusion in Denmark. Method: The…
Descriptors: Public Libraries, Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged Environment, Neighborhoods
Millar, Pat; Kilpatrick, Sue – Studies in the Education of Adults, 2005
Family and community capacity building projects in Tasmania are attempting to address the disadvantage of communities marginalised by socio-economic and other influences. Collaborations between the projects, community members and groups, and education and training organisations, have resulted in a leadership process which has fostered reengagement…
Descriptors: Social Capital, Ethnography, Community Development, Disadvantaged Environment
Deavers, Kenneth L.; Brown, David L. – 1985
Rural areas' population growth, location, level of economic activity and social well-being depend less on natural resource endowments than on such factors as transportation, communication, labor force characteristics, and urbanization. General causes of the 1970's urban-to-rural migration included fewer changes in the structure of agriculture,…
Descriptors: Community Development, Disadvantaged Environment, Economic Change, Income
Thompson, Ekundayo J. D. – 2002
The effects of literacy and livelihood programs on female learners' participation in literacy were examined through case studies of groups of women who participated in four literacy and income-earning projects in Kenya. Data were collected through focus group discussions and a questionnaire. The four programs were started between 1968 and 1999 and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Case Studies, Community Development
