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Corcoran, Lynn; Exner-Cortens, Deinera; Wells, Lana – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2019
Advancing Healthy and Socially Just Schools and Communities is a four-course graduate certificate program collaboratively developed by an interdisciplinary team comprised of faculty from the fields of Social Work and Education at a Canadian university. The aim of this program is to facilitate systems-level change through enhancing the knowledge…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Interdisciplinary Approach, Child Health, Violence
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Miller, Gill – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2013
This paper discusses a fieldwork exercise in development geography undertaken by students in the UK. Based on community engagement in partnership with refugee and black minority communities in Liverpool, it explores how such fieldwork can deepen understanding of development geography, contribute to global citizenship and nurture personal skills.…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Community Involvement, Partnerships in Education, Foreign Countries
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Garcia-Rodriguez; Olaya; Secades-Villa, Roberto; Higgins, Stephen T.; Fernandez-Hermida, Jose R.; Carballo, Jose L. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2008
This study analyzed the viability of financing a voucher program for cocaine addicts in Spain through public and private donations. Of the 136 companies contacted, 52 (38%) provided donations. The difference between the benefits (15,670[euros]/$20,371) and the costs (3,734[euros]/$4,854) was 11,936[euros]/$15,517. The type of reinforcer a company…
Descriptors: Cocaine, Organization Size (Groups), Foreign Countries, Educational Vouchers
Zhao, Yijie; McNerney, Frank – Online Submission, 2006
This study investigates the impact of activities done in the basic education sub-sector by a consortium of four non-government organizations in four provinces in Afghanistan from January 2004 to June 2005. The evaluation uses the project objectives and components as the evaluation framework, and data collected through survey questionnaires,…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, Government Role, Community Support
Prinsen, Bert – 1997
This paper discusses the characteristics of three community-based early childhood care and development support programs: the Community Mothers Program of Dublin, Ireland; the Maternal and Infant Health Outreach Workers Program of Tennessee; and the Mothers Inform Mothers Program of the Netherlands. The paper considers the general characteristics…
Descriptors: Child Health, Community Involvement, Community Programs, Community Support
Briody, P. – 1982
The Instrumental Music Program Unit in the South-West Priority Country Area (a vast, generally arid hot region some 800 km by 450 km) is a unique, dynamic, and successful program, enjoying an extremely high degree of enthusiastic support from all involved--administrators, instructors, students, schools, and communities. Begun in 1977, there are…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Bands (Music), Community Support
King, Edith W.; Houlton, David – 1984
The multiethnic situation in American schools in the 1980s can be compared to that of Britain in the 1960s, when a sudden influx of non-English-speaking children in great numbers taxed the resources of an educational system dedicated to the English language. Arguments favoring multicultural education are increasing in both countries, and the need…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Community Support, Comparative Analysis, Cultural Pluralism