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Michael Lolkus; Laura Duke; Jill Newton – Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 2022
University students often share that studying abroad was a life-changing experience. We explored how one short-term, faculty-led study abroad, Tanzania Study Abroad Program (TSAP), contributed to the participants' lives after their experience. Through a web-based survey, we collected responses from 82 former TSAP participants. We used corpus and…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, College Students, Interpersonal Relationship, Community Involvement
Luci-Jo DiMaggio – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Which programmatic principles of community engagement have a higher potential to irritate the beliefs that college students hold regarding their own power, privilege, understanding of social justice? This study takes a qualitative approach to the exploration of three groups of students representing curricular community engagement, co-curricular…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, College Students, Interpersonal Relationship, Social Justice
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Julia Bohlmann – Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education, 2022
The Decolonising the Curriculum (DtC) movement questions the very values we take for granted as learning developers. If our role is to develop academic literacies and support students to succeed in the curriculum as it is, can we as learning developers be decolonisers? This opinion piece argues that we can and should. It outlines where we can…
Descriptors: Decolonization, Curriculum Development, Reflective Teaching, Teaching Methods
Nation's Schools and Colleges, 1975
A class at the University of the Pacific is learning how loneliness can be turned into a positive experience; home economics students are learning how to manage a household and a budget in a housing project apartment; and a gourmet restaurant operated by students is open to the community. (Author/MLF)
Descriptors: Career Education, Community Involvement, Curriculum Development, Foods Instruction
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Carlyon, Pauline – Journal of School Health, 1981
The PTA subscribes to the view that education for sexuality begins at birth and is significantly and irrevocably influenced by parent-child relationships before the school years begin. Thirteen state PTA's participated in pilot and demonstration projects to develop public awareness of the need for comprehensive community sponsored sex education.…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Curriculum Development, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education