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Saerom Ahn; Gyeongmi Gi; Sonya N. Martin – Asia-Pacific Science Education, 2023
Community gardens offer valuable educational and social benefits, contributing to enhanced environmental learning and community building. To expand these opportunities and support community gardens' objectives, we emphasize the necessity of establishing specific structures that facilitate gardeners' practices. Investigating a Korean community as a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Community Development, Gardening, Environmental Education
Heimans, Stephen; Singh, Parlo; Barnes, Andrew – Improving Schools, 2021
This is a conceptual article arising from, and grounded in, research with a government-funded primary school serving high-poverty communities in Queensland, Australia. It is one response to the last 10 years of participatory research work led by the three authors of this article (the school principal and two academics). In this article, we write…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educationally Disadvantaged, Educational Research, Elementary Schools
Ademola Olumuyiwa Omotosho – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2024
Purpose: This study aims to explore the contribution of Enactus sustainability initiatives to youth empowerment and community development, thus analysing how South African higher education institutions can increase student involvement in Enactus projects across all faculties. Design/methodology/approach: Using a systematic literature review…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sustainability, Community Development, Student Empowerment
Alice Willatt; Mary Brydon-Miller; Denise Cumberland; Yunyan Li – Educational Action Research, 2024
The Gloucestershire Gateway Trust (GGT) is a social enterprise initiative in Southwest England focused on Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD). This article describes a six-year action research collaboration that has sought to support the GGT and its local non-profit organizational partners using a variety of action research methods, including…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Community Development, Community, Participatory Research
Groulx, Mark; Nowak, Nadia; Levy, Kristin; Booth, Annie – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2021
Purpose: This paper aims to examine the broad concept of university-community partnerships as it applies to creating sustainability initiatives. The benefits of university-community partnerships are increasingly recognized, and this paper offers direct insights from community stakeholders on the principles, functions and activities they see as…
Descriptors: Community Needs, School Community Relationship, Universities, Stakeholders
Sasson, Irit – Studies in Higher Education, 2019
Collaboration with the educational systems is needed to leverage the community to address the problem of declining interest in science education among young people, yet building effective university-community partnerships is a highly complex process. This research investigated partnership building in a regional science initiative designed to…
Descriptors: School Community Relationship, Partnerships in Education, Science Education, Sustainability
Han, Song – Science Insights Education Frontiers, 2021
In the current climate of pursuing educational equity, the construction of educational community is a worthwhile experiment in achieving equitable development of urban and rural education. Establishing a multi-channel cooperation mechanism between urban and rural schools and giving full play to the existing high-quality educational resources are…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Urban Education, Rural Education, Educational Resources
Changfoot, Nadine; Andrée, Peter; Levkoe, Charles Z.; Nilson, Michelle; Goemans, Magdalene – Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 2020
Pre- and post-tenure faculty face immense pressure to meet professional expectations and requirements from their colleagues and disciplines. Faculty involved in community-campus engagement (CCE) for social change face additional demands to maintain relationships and continue their interventions. We present a collective autoethnography from a…
Descriptors: Scholarship, Tenure, Faculty Promotion, College Faculty
Brann-Barrett, M. Tanya; Timm-Bottos, Janis – Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education, 2017
Many academic educators who hope to contribute to socially just community building recognize that working in partnerships with people and organizations outside the academy is important. Working within publicly funded universities and engaging in community-based work, however, require juggling responsibilities to multiple stakeholders. In this…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Partnerships in Education, School Community Relationship, Foreign Countries
Webster, Nicole S.; Sausner, Erica B. – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2017
Technical and vocational education and training (TVET) is increasingly emphasised by international education organisations. In Nicaragua, particularly, this type of engagement is viewed as a potential for boosting the economy, improving employment and building the infrastructure and sustainability of remote and marginalised communities. To date,…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Educational Opportunities, Foreign Countries, Disadvantaged
Rogers, Alan – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2019
This paper argues that Non-formal Education (NFE) has seen a remarkable revival of interest across both developing countries and the more highly developed countries. Among the factors causing this revival is the search for alternative educations to meet the needs of different groups in society. But in the process, NFE has been relocated -- not so…
Descriptors: Nonformal Education, Sustainable Development, Goal Orientation, Community Centers
Mbah, Marcellus – Journal of Environmental Education, 2019
Against the backdrop of Africa's quest for development, there have been emerging demands for its universities to do more in contributing to development drives beyond their immediate sphere of operation. Drawing on an instrumental case study within an African community, this article heartens a reconsideration of African universities' community…
Descriptors: Indigenous Knowledge, School Community Relationship, Universities, Case Studies
Smetackova, Irena; Viktorova, Ida; Lauermann, Marek; Jones, Chris – Peabody Journal of Education, 2020
In this article, we present the results of an international comparative study on the concept of Community School across nine eastern European and Eurasian countries. The study sample consists of two schools considered to be Community Schools from each country (N = 451 teachers); a teacher survey was conducted and the implementation of the…
Descriptors: Community Schools, Comparative Education, Teacher Attitudes, Program Implementation
McGrath, Georgia; Alfrey, Laura; Jeanes, Ruth – Asia-Pacific Journal of Health, Sport and Physical Education, 2017
Community development research suggests that positive partnerships and connections between groups can result in stronger, more resilient and productive communities. Despite community connections featuring increasingly at a curriculum level in countries such as Australia and New Zealand, research is only beginning to explore the nuanced processes…
Descriptors: Health Education, Physical Education, Stakeholders, Foreign Countries
Education Scotland, 2017
In June 2012 the Scottish Government issued the "Community Learning and Development (CLD) Strategic Guidance." While directed at Community Planning Partnerships (CPPs) and recognising the vital role played by a wide range of organisations and services, the guidance clearly identifies a lead role for local authorities 'to provide clear…
Descriptors: Community Planning, Community Development, Foreign Countries, Educational Legislation