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Allison L. Ricket; Jacqueline Yahn; Emily Bentley – Journal of Research in Rural Education, 2023
This study examines the outcomes of non-school internships hosted by two Appalachian Ohio organizations: Rural Action and Building Bridges to Careers (BB2C). As intermediary organizations, these entities work outside the boundaries of formal schooling to address issues of youth outmigration and sustainable community development through high school…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Rural Areas, Internship Programs, High School Students
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Egwemi, O. P.; Salifu, Peter Ogohi – Research in Drama Education, 2023
This article recounts our field experience and research in TfD in the Ofabo community, Kogi State, Nigeria. Through socially engaged performance and participant observation, this study finds that the poor state of drinking water in the Ofabo community results from government negligence, inadequate awareness, and the inactivity of community…
Descriptors: Drama Education, Community Development, Water, Rural Areas
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Emily Yeager; Beth Bee; Anjalee Hou; Taylor Cash; Kelsi Dew; Daniel Dickerson; Kelly White-Singleton; Michael Schilling; Sierra Jones – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2024
Through a multistakeholder partnership, this research aims to catalyze the development of a blue economy corridor (BEC) through community-based asset mapping in the eastern portion of the Tar-Pamlico River Basin in North Carolina, a geographic area predominated by physically and culturally rural landscapes. Underpinned by appreciative inquiry,…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Natural Resources, Geographic Information Systems, Community Development
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Tchoukaleyska, Roza; Carter, Ken; Dluginski, Emily; Forward, Marilyn; King, Andrew; Leblanc, Olivia; Ratcliffe, Christopher – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2022
In this article, we examine the development of a new, experiential learning human geography and planning course at a smaller campus in Newfoundland, Canada. Our interest is twofold: to consider how pedagogical approaches can be transferred between a large urban campus and a small-town location; and to examine the benefits and complications of such…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Geography Instruction, Urban Planning, Human Geography
Dauda Moses; Safiya Adamu; Barbara Crossouard; Máiréad Dunne – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2024
This case study discusses the use of participatory visual methods with two groups of young women (coresearcher participants) in two distinct (Muslim and Christian) communities in rural northern Nigeria. These workshops addressed the challenges the young women faced in combining education with the multiple forms of work demanded of them in their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Young Adults, Christianity
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Morales, Sarahi; Brashears, Michel T.; Boren-Alpizar, Amy; Meyers, Courtney; Oldewage-Theron, Wilna – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2021
Purpose: The objective was to investigate the role of traditional leaders in the implementation of food security projects in South Africa. Design/Methodology: A qualitative, phenomenological approach was used as a research design. A purposive sample of seven individuals was selected representing the community, extension agents, and researchers.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Hunger, Food, Nutrition
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Lamm, Kevan W.; Borron, Abigail; Atkins, Keith – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2020
Although there are questions concerning the extent of the problems facing rural Americans, there is considerable evidence that many nonmetropolitan communities are facing a multitude of serious challenges. These issues do not exist as distinct and unrelated problems. For instance, one cannot focus exclusively on depopulation without also…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Community Attitudes, Rural Areas, Test Construction
Angela Marie Thatcher – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Emerging adults in rural, boom-bust economies face unique challenges, especially in employment and education. Drawing on emerging adult and social disruption hypothesis literatures, this study examined four primary research questions. First, how do emerging adults in rural boom-bust towns in southwest Wyoming understand and experience boom-bust…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Employment, Migration, Community Development
Siegelin, Steven Dale – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This qualitative case study focused on career commitment in two types of professional adult educators, extension agents and missionaries. Past research studying extension agents and missionaries had documented decades of early career attrition. Research documented the issues, explored causes, and proposed solutions. Yet, the problem persists. Much…
Descriptors: Protestants, Religious Education, Extension Education, Informal Education
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Kimura, Rikio – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2020
This case study, by using transformative learning underpinned by critical realism, explores how a contextualised and non-confrontational rights-based approach by a Cambodian non-governmental organisation (NGO) has influenced rural citizens' agency in fulfilling their rights to development. The NGO, by working closely with the government, has…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Nongovernmental Organizations, Civil Rights, Rural Areas
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Tschurenev, Jana – Comparative Education, 2021
This article discusses the 'Indianisation', 'nationalisation', and 'ruralisation' of the Montessori method in India at the eve, and in the aftermath of the country's political independence (1947). From 1914 onwards, Indian nationalists received Montessori's ideas through publications, the networks of the new education movement, and the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Montessori Method, Educational History, Rural Education
Morrison, Sarah A. – Center for the Study of Social Policy, 2020
Over the last decade, The California Endowment (TCE) has invested in 14 communities that have historically been marginalized and denied opportunities for their residents to thrive. The initiative, known as Building Healthy Communities (BHC), focuses on creating places where children are healthy, safe, and ready to learn. Del Norte and Tribal Lands…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Community, Community Development, Health
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Akther, Farzana; Dirckinck-Holmfeld, Lone – Designs for Learning, 2019
The introduction and implementation of ICT depends not only on technological issues but also on social and institutional factors. To respond to these challenges, in this article we describe our engagement with an ICT4D research case conducted in collaboration with the Community Empowerment Programme (CEP) of the non-governmental organization (NGO)…
Descriptors: Photography, Social Action, Rural Areas, Community Development
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Wang, Qianran – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2019
This article introduces Kominkan and its practice on Japanese social education and how it facilitates Japanese adult education and lifelong learning in local communities. Historically, social education was understood as all education that promotes social development and societal progress. Kominkan, as Japanese social education institutions for…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Adult Learning, Lifelong Learning, Self Determination
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Murray, Jaclyn; Rudolph, Norma – Journal of Pedagogy, 2019
Following calls for diverse and contextual perspectives of the rich lives of young children, their families and communities from/in the Global South, this paper presents critical reflections emerging from a three-year (2016-2019) community-based Integrated Approach to Early Childhood Development (ECD) project implemented in the rural Eastern Cape…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Child Development, Early Childhood Education, Young Children
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