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Pathways to Co-Impact: Action Research and Community Organising
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Banks, Sarah; Herrington, Tracey; Carter, Kath – Educational Action Research, 2017
This article introduces the concept of "co-impact" to characterise the complex and dynamic process of social and economic change generated by participatory action research (PAR). It argues that dominant models of research impact tend to see it as a linear process, based on a donor-recipient model, occurring at the end of a project…
Descriptors: Action Research, Community Organizations, Participatory Research, Social Change
The Role of Language in Adult Education and Poverty Reduction in Botswana
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Bagwasi, Mompoloki – International Review of Education, 2006
This study examines the role of language in reducing poverty in Botswana through adult-education programs. Because language is the medium through which human beings communicate and grow intellectually and socially, it should form the basis of any discussion involving the relation between development and education. In order best to respond to…
Descriptors: Language Role, Poverty Programs, Adult Education, Foreign Countries
THE NEIGHBORHOOD YOUTH CORPS AND THE COMMUNITY, AN EXPLORATORY STUDY OF THE IMPLICATIONS OF A FEDERAL ANTI-POVERTY PROGRAM FOR MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN.
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CARO, FRANCIS G. – 1966
TWO APPROACHES WERE USED IN STUDYING THE EFFECTS OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD YOUTH CORPS (NYC) ON MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN -- (1) IMPLICATIONS FOR THE INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL OPERATIONS OF ORGANIZATIONS INVOLVED IN ITS WORK FLOW, AND (2) IMPLICATIONS FOR SPECIFIC PROBLEMS IN THE YOUTH AND POVERTY AREAS (SCHOOL ATTENDANCE AND ACHIEVEMENT, JUVENILE DELINQUENCY,…
Descriptors: Community Organizations, Community Study, Disadvantaged Youth, Employment Experience