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To, Siu-ming; Chun-Sing Cheung, Johnson; Liu, Xiaoyu; Lau, Cheryl Danielle; Zeng, Hera Junfei; Chan, Adam Man-yuk – Youth & Society, 2021
This study examined the moderating effect of youth-adult partnerships (YAPs) on the relationship between youth empowerment in the community and youth's creative self-efficacy (CSE). A survey was administered to 2,653 youth recruited from youth service centers in Hong Kong, which measured youth empowerment in the community, perceived YAPs in youth…
Descriptors: Empowerment, Creative Development, Creativity, Self Efficacy
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Golding, Barry; Carragher, Lucia; Foley, Annette – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2021
Our paper focuses on delineating and scoping international Women's Sheds, a movement that has emerged within the past decade, mainly in Australia, Ireland and the UK. It addresses two main research questions. Firstly, what is the origin, distribution, nature and intent of Women's Sheds internationally to March 2021? Secondly, how might Women's…
Descriptors: Community Development, Females, Organizations (Groups), Classification
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Araneta-Merin, Jewish – International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education, 2018
Parenting Education aims to reinforce families and increase parenting practices. This study intended to evaluate the efficiency of the delivery of the Parenting Education Platform and its value in attaining the program purposes tailored to address specific needs, organized parent-child undertakings, and accessed community services and supports in…
Descriptors: Parent Education, Parent Child Relationship, Community Services, Foreign Countries
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Murray, Jaclyn; Rudolph, Norma – Journal of Pedagogy, 2019
Following calls for diverse and contextual perspectives of the rich lives of young children, their families and communities from/in the Global South, this paper presents critical reflections emerging from a three-year (2016-2019) community-based Integrated Approach to Early Childhood Development (ECD) project implemented in the rural Eastern Cape…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Child Development, Early Childhood Education, Young Children
Stanistreet, Paul – Adults Learning, 2012
"In areas like ours, everything we've ever had we fought for. It wasn't just handed to us," says Anna Hutchison, a community activist and one of the founders of the North Edinburgh Social History Group. For decades, Anna tells the author, the community has had to struggle for the basic amenities others in the city take for granted,…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Urban Areas, Social History, Activism
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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
Low, John – Adults Learning, 2011
Hardly anyone can have failed to pick up on the recent flurry of stories in the national press about the Big Society, sparked off by Dame Elisabeth Hoodless's remarks that funds for volunteers are disappearing at an alarming rate, and that this is undermining the very idea of a "Big Society". At the same time, under the government's…
Descriptors: Community Services, Voluntary Agencies, Volunteers, Community Development
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Pal, Sarmistha – Economics of Education Review, 2010
The paper argues that access to public infrastructure plays a crucial role on the presence of private schools in a community, as it could not only minimise the cost of production, but also ensure a high return to private investment. Results using community, school and child/household-level PROBE survey data from five north Indian states provide…
Descriptors: State Schools, Private Schools, Economics, Access to Education
Nasiruddin, Md. – Online Submission, 2013
Each night, around 20,000 people--both adults and children--make the streets of Dhaka (the capital city of Bangladesh) their home. Living amongst the noise, rubbish, and traffic, thousands of families walk down the streets of Dhaka, looking for a safe place to rest for just a few hours each night. Trapped in a vicious cycle of poverty, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Homeless People, Emergency Shelters
Alberta Advanced Education and Technology, 2007
Because of the important role played by community learning providers, Premier Ed Stelmach asked Canadian Minister of Advanced Education and Technology to increase support for community education and literacy programs. Community Adult Learning Councils and other community providers of adult literacy and family literacy programming are primarily…
Descriptors: Community Education, Adult Learning, Family Literacy, Adult Literacy
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Hoatson, Lesley; And Others – Community Development Journal, 1996
The Australian state of Victoria has adopted a privatization approach to human services that is destroying the infrastructure of community services. Without a dynamic community services core, it is difficult for social citizenship to flourish. (SK)
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Community Development, Community Services, Contracts
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Mok, Bong-ho – Community Development Journal, 1993
Despite contrasts between capitalist Hong Kong and socialist Guangzhou, the two cities' community work is similar in terms of superficial emphasis on citizen participation, maintenance of status quo, and consensus orientation. The imminent changeover in Hong Kong's sovereignty will change social welfare services in both cities. (SK)
Descriptors: Capitalism, Citizen Participation, Community Development, Community Services
Roberts, J. T. – Adult Education (London), 1975
The article discusses the community "team" approach through the objectives of the Community Development Project developed by John Benington. (BP)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Community Development, Community Services
Henderson, Paul, Ed.; Francis, David, Ed. – 1993
This book contains 10 case studies of rural community development in England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, and Catalonia, as seen from the perspective of community-work practitioners. Development projects encompassed such activities as promotion of tourism, establishment of community centers, vocational training for school dropouts, adult community…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Case Studies, Community Action, Community Development
Garcia, Manuel Alcazar – Grassroots Development, 1999
A partnership of nongovernmental organizations developed a model of integrated community development centers (CDICs) to address the lack of services and affordable basic necessities in poor barrios surrounding many Latin American cities. A CDIC in a Guayaquil (Ecuador) barrio provides wholesale goods and credit to barrio shopkeepers and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Centers, Community Development, Community Education
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