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Jaelyn deMaría; Karen Roybal – Communication Education, 2024
Place-based education is pedagogy rooted in local landscapes, community experts, and embodied communication. This essay explores the authors' initial findings from a two-year pilot project that connects students from the University of New Mexico and students from Colorado College in a multisite field experience connected to the Rio Grande…
Descriptors: Place Based Education, College Students, Field Experience Programs, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Leake, Robin; de Guzman, Anna; Rienks, Shauna; Archer, Gretchen; Potter, Cathryn – Journal of Social Work Education, 2015
The task of recruiting and retaining ethnically diverse, qualified, and committed social workers in child welfare is challenging. Federal funding supporting BSW and MSW education has been a catalyst for university-agency partnerships across the country. An important goal of these partnerships is to prepare social work students with the knowledge,…
Descriptors: Trainees, Child Welfare, Student Diversity, Ethnic Diversity
Poudre School District R-1, Ft. Collins, CO. – 1972
The objectives of the Northern Colorado Outdoor Nature Center Project are to: (1) develop an outdoor nature center and an environmental education laboratory; (2) develop multidiscipline curriculum guides for grades K-12; (3) assist teachers in developing skills necessary to teach effectively in the outdoor setting; and (4) develop student…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Curriculum Guides, Environmental Education, Field Experience Programs
Higman, Howard; And Others – 1965
A 1965 summer training program for 90 VISTA volunteers at Monte Vista, Colorado, is described and evaluated in this report. The program was designed to prepare VISTA trainees to work in poverty areas by providing individual helping services and by planning and organizing community action. The trainees lived and worked in Monte Vista, a small…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Community Services, Economically Disadvantaged, Federal Programs