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Policies for Place: How to Make Sustainable Investments in Communities
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Kathleen Bolter, Contributor; Tim Bartik, Contributor; Brad Hershbein, Contributor; Michelle Miller-Adams, Contributor; Lee Adams, Contributor; Brian Asquith, Contributor; Alfonso Hernandez, Contributor; Kyle Huisman, Contributor; Iryna V. Lendel, Contributor; Gabrielle Pepin, Contributor; Bridget Timmeney, Contributor; Beth Truesdale, Contributor; Yulya Truskinovsky, Contributor – W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2024
The Policies for Place initiative at the Upjohn Institute brings together experts from around the country to study community-based strategies to create good jobs--and how to help people get and keep those good jobs. This initiative represents a unique approach to helping people in distressed places: (1) focus on good jobs because research shows…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Place Based Education, Job Development, Employment Opportunities
'One Person Cannot Change It; It's Going to Take a Community': Addressing Inequity through Community Environmental Education
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Wendy Griswold; Meera Patel; Edith Gnanadass – Adult Learning, 2024
Environmental injustice is often an intersection of economic, social, and environmental disparities. Addressing the inequities borne by communities overburdened with such disparities requires local learning opportunities. Exploring how and what participants learn during community education projects can help inform and improve practice, which was…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Volunteers, Adults, Pollution
Promoting Learning about Local Food Security by Applying Environmental Education Processes to People in Central Part of Thailand
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Khomkrit Bunkhiao; Jidapa Koomklang; Wee Rawang; Seree Woraphong – Journal of Education and Learning, 2024
The objective of this research is twofold: firstly, to examine the level of local food security and the community members' understanding of environmental education; and secondly, to develop a model that enhances local food security by implementing the environmental education practices of the community residents. Utilized mixed-methods research.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Food, Hunger, Regional Characteristics
Grounded in Community: Leveraging Partnerships for K-12 Climate Education
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Taiji Nelson; Carissa Haug; Claudia McLaughlin Ludwig; Isabel Carrera Zamanillo; Luke Matlack; Kelsie Fowler – Connected Science Learning, 2024
Partnerships between K-12 educators and people doing climate work in their communities provides opportunities for teachers and students to engage in consequential climate learning that is both culturally situated and locally relevant. This article features several vignettes that highlight examples from various sites across Washington State where…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Climate, Partnerships in Education, Environmental Education
Citizen Social Science and Pathways to Prosperity: Co-Designing Research and Impact in Beirut, Lebanon
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Jallad, Mayssa; Mintchev, Nikolay; Pietrostefani, Elisabetta; Daher, Mariam; Moore, Henrietta L. – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2022
This article argues for a citizen social science methodology in which residents from the sites of inquiry play a central role in key activities of the research process and beyond: research design and data collection, presentation and publication of findings, and design and implementation of urban interventions that address challenges to quality of…
Descriptors: Social Science Research, Foreign Countries, Inquiry, Active Learning