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Shaoru Annie Zeng; Sun Yee Yip; Grace Xuecong Ji; Yaqing Hou; Hongzhi Zhang; Philip Wing Keung Chan; Zane Diamond; Geraldine Burke – International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives, 2024
This study analyses how community resources are integrated into four areas of the Australian Curriculum: Languages (Chinese), The Arts (Visual Arts), Sciences, and Humanities and Social Sciences (Economics and Business). It examines four case studies to compare the use of rural resources and local partnerships in achieving educational goals and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Community Resources, Public Libraries, Museums
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Leat, David; Thomas, Ulrike – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2016
There is little sign that current attempts to close the "attainment gap" are working. This article argues for a different approach to addressing the "gap," based on a community asset approach. The authors describe ongoing work on community curriculum making in North-East England, in which schools undertake projects using…
Descriptors: School Community Relationship, Educational Attainment, Achievement Gap, Foreign Countries
Miesner, H. Rose; Packard, Chiara; Laemmli, Taylor; MacGregor, Lyn – Wisconsin Center for Education Research, 2020
Although policymakers generally appreciate the value of crafting policies that are responsive to teacher and principal voice, doing so in a systematic way is challenging. Educator voices in the room when policies are made are often those of teachers and principals closest to policymakers. In 2019, to broaden the range of educator voices available…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Poverty, Public Schools, Teacher Attitudes