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Direct linkLanman, Barry A., Ed.; Wendling, Laura M., Ed. – Altamira Press, 2006
This book is an invaluable resource to educators seeking to bring history alive for students at all levels. The anthology opens with chapters on the fundamentals of oral history and its place in the classroom, but its heart lies in nearly two dozen insightful personal essays by educators who have successfully incorporated oral history into their…
Descriptors: Historians, Anthologies, Oral History, History Instruction
Download full textAmstutz, Donna; And Others – 1992
The potential of community education for building partnerships that help schools become the active agents for addressing social change is discussed in the five papers that make up this report. The first paper, by Donna Amstutz, presents an overview of the purposes and models of community education. Next, a paper by Monica Beglau discusses forms of…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Community Cooperation, Community Education, Community Schools
Stainback, Susan, Ed.; Stainback, William, Ed. – 1992
This book discusses how the curriculum can be designed, adapted, and delivered in general education classrooms that are attempting to promote inclusive communities. Chapters include: "Toward Inclusive Classrooms" (Susan Stainback et al.); "Celebrating Diversity, Creating Community: Curriculum that Honors and Builds on Differences" (Mara…
Descriptors: Community Support, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Enrichment
Association of Research Libraries, Washington, DC. Office of Management Studies. – 1979
A 1979 Systems and Procedures Exchange Center (SPEC) survey on special collections in Association of Research Libraries (ARL) institutions focuses on centralized departments that handle rare books, manuscripts, archives, and author-subject collections. Statistical results from 66 survey replies reporting on the staffing, size, and expenditures of…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Community Support, Higher Education, Information Needs
Dewees, Sarah, Ed.; Hammer, Patricia Cahape, Ed. – 2000
While the condition of rural school facilities varies across the country, most rural school districts face similar issues as they consider new facility construction, renovations, or additions. These issues are how to gain public support for funding, how to make the best use of local resources, how to design buildings that meet a variety of…
Descriptors: Community Support, Construction Programs, Educational Facilities Improvement, Educational Facilities Planning
Long, Sandra M., Ed.; Batchelor, Barbara, Ed. – 1979
This collection of 11 articles focuses on various kinds of change that children face, and ways that adults can help nurture the development of coping strategies. Situations of change covered are crises of death, divorce, imprisonment, or hospitalization of family members, new environments such as entering school, the birth of a new sibling, and…
Descriptors: Change, Child Abuse, Child Neglect, Children
Knapp-Philo, Joanne, Ed.; Rosenkoetter, Sharon E., Ed. – WestEd, 2006
The newborn is amazingly equipped to acquire language and literacy--these early years are the foundation upon which later learning is built. Drawing on current research, the authors of this book examine the elements of beginning language and literacy and look at how families, programs, and communities can encourage beginning language and literacy…
Descriptors: Infants, Toddlers, Emergent Literacy, Language Acquisition
Prinsen, Bert – 1998
This document comprises three papers related to the implementation of early childhood education, health care, and support programs. The first paper is a brief reflection on the nature of implementation, based on the contributions of Boudewijn Bekkers. The second is a proceedings chapter by Marian Hanrahan titled "Community Based Innovative…
Descriptors: Child Health, Community Involvement, Community Programs, Community Support
Nietupski, John A., Ed.; Chappelle, Sandra A., Ed. – 1993
The Dispersed Heterogeneous Placement (DHP) supported employment project involved dispersal of three to five consumers across several departments/areas in a larger business or across several businesses in close proximity. The individuals placed had a wide range of talents and disability severity levels. Typically, a four-person site might have one…
Descriptors: Community Support, Education Work Relationship, Employment Programs, Job Development
White (E.H.) Co., San Francisco, CA. – 1979
Intended to assist Agency for International Development officers, advisors, and health officials in incorporating health planning into national plans for economic development, this ninth of ten manuals in the International Health Planning Methods series contains eight papers dealing with the integration of community health concerns into…
Descriptors: Community Health Services, Community Programs, Community Resources, Community Support
McClure, Larry, Ed. – 1979
Based on the personal experiences of individuals familiar with the day-to-day operation of experience-based career education (EBCE) in several states, the essays in this monograph are presented under three headings: (1) deciding to offer an option, (2) gathering community support, and (3) building an institutional framework. Part 1 includes…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Career Choice, Career Education, Career Exploration
Bloom, Susan Philipson, Ed. – 2000
This working paper assembles chapters written by onsite researchers about program implementation in each of seven cities included in the Job-Plus Community Revitalization Initiative for Public Housing Families. This report, which provides a "snapshot" of each site, documents the nature and extent of implementation as of that point in…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Case Studies, Community Support, Demonstration Programs
Booth, Alan, Ed.; Crouter, Ann C., Ed. – 2001
Although our society has made substantial investments in research and programs based on the idea that communities affect families and children, significant questions have emerged about the validity of the link between communities, children, and families. This book, presented in four sections, focuses on how communities undergird or undermine human…
Descriptors: Adolescents, At Risk Persons, Behavior Problems, Child Development
