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Colleen Elizabeth Unroe – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This study utilizes adult learning, working-class masculinity, and political economy theories to explore the education and learning that supports engagement in the Just Transition movement in Central Appalachia. The central research question is as follows: in communities with economies formerly dominated by the coal industry, how does an…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Working Class, Masculinity, Economics
Lupinacci, John J. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Education can have a tremendous impact on how we, as humans, understand and relate to each other and the larger environmental systems to which we belong. In efforts to address the role of education in alleviating and eliminating social suffering and environmental degradation in many of the worlds' diverse communities, the purpose of this critical…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Partnerships in Education, Ecology, Politics of Education
Littleton, Dawn – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this study was to describe the methods--including practices, policies, and roles--used by public and academic library staff in a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Racial and Ethnic Approach to Community Health (REACH) intervention that proved successful in reducing or eliminating several diabetes-related health…
Descriptors: African Americans, Low Income Groups, Health Programs, Intervention