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Librarians, Dentists, Journalists, and Undergrads: A Case Study Implementing a Journalism Teaching Hospital within Marginalized Communities
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Laura Moorhead; Eileen G. Harrington; Michelle McQuistan; Anubhuti Shukla; Esperanza Angeles Martinez Mier; Sheryl Syme; Michelle Moncrieffe Foreman – Journalism and Mass Communication Educator, 2025
This study considers a practice-based learning project in which 173 undergraduates enrolled in a journalism class reported on oral health issues in marginalized communities. Health fairs at local libraries provided a starting place for students to cover oral healthcare, an underreported topic in the media. Three nonprofit journalism organizations…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Journalism Education, News Reporting, Dental Health
Connections 2017: Experiments in Democratic Citizenship
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Gilmore, Melinda, Ed.; Nielsen, Randall, Ed. – Kettering Foundation, 2017
The Kettering Foundation is a nonprofit, operating foundation rooted in the American tradition of cooperative research. The foundation seeks to identify and address the challenges to making democracy work as it should through interrelated program areas that focus on citizens, communities, and institutions. Each issue of this annual newsletter…
Descriptors: Democracy, Citizenship Education, Neighborhoods, Child Rearing
Real-World Learning of Public Affairs and Environmental Journalism: Two Models
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Freedman, Eric; Poulson, David – Journalism and Mass Communication Educator, 2015
Traditionally, journalism majors gain professional experience before graduation through internships, part-time or summer jobs, and campus media. Those avenues are often insufficient to adequately prepare them for the professional workplace and professional standards. This essay explores two of a journalism school's practice-based programs that…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Journalism Education, Journalism, Essays
Connections 2015: Our History: Journeys in KF Research. Annual Newsletter
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Gilmore, Melinda, Ed.; Holwerk, David, Ed. – Kettering Foundation, 2015
Each issue of this annual newsletter focuses on a particular area of Kettering's research. The 2015 issue focuses on a yearlong review of Kettering's research over time. This issue contains the following articles that address this review: (1) How Kettering Discovered Democracy (David Mathews); (2) Key Events in KF History (Collette McDonough); (3)…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Educational Research, Educational History, Democracy
Higher Education Exchange, 2008
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Brown, David W., Ed.; Witte, Deborah, Ed. – Kettering Foundation, 2008
"Higher Education Exchange" publishes case studies, analyses, news, and ideas about efforts within higher education to develop more democratic societies. Contributors to this issue of the "Higher Education Exchange" examine whether institutions of higher learning are doing anything to increase the capacity of citizens to shape…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Democracy, Public Health, Partnerships in Education
Voices of Strong Democracy: Concepts and Models for Service-Learning in Communication Studies. AAHE's Series on Service-Learning in the Disciplines.
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Droge, David, Ed.; Murphy, Bren Ortega, Ed. – 1999
This volume is part of a series of 18 monographs on service learning and the academic disciplines. These essays demonstrate some "best practices" for service-learning, providing rigorous learning experiences for students and high-quality service to the community. A Preface by James L. Applegate and Sherwyn P. Morreale, "Service-Learning in…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Students, Communication (Thought Transfer), Communications