The idea of a new social contract for education, as outlined in the UNESCO (2021) report on the Futures of Education, refers to the many instances of cooperation among communities and education systems around the world. In Italy, these experiences, commonly referred to as Community Educational Pacts, have gained increasing attention in recent…

Soon after Xavier Botana took over as superintendent of Maine's Portland Public Schools, he realized that, despite the district's professed commitment, efforts to promote equity were embedded in other programs rather than being its own goal. He knew that if he were going to make his vision for equity a reality, he would need to get the community's…

The purpose of this study is to explore the memorable events community partners experience when working with college students in a university/community collaboration. Twenty community members employed by nonprofit agencies, who have partnered with the university for varying lengths of time, participated in telephone interviews. Participants…

Tension between university communities and the surrounding residential communities has existed almost since the creation of higher education. Historically, there have been murders and riots. More recently, there have been protests and simmering animosity. In the 1980s, there was a greater recognition that the fate of the residential communities…

Jiang Han Ping Yuan Shadow Puppetry, a traditional Chinese performing art rooted in Hubei Province's cultural heritage, embodies intricate shadow play, music, and storytelling. This research aims to explore the efficacy of integrating Jiang Han Ping Yuan Shadow Puppetry into education for cultural protection and literacy development among…

The remarkably growing body of academic literature on the university in relation to sustainability pivots around the idea that the university has an important role to play regarding this issue. However, which role this precisely is and what type of university this requires is often left implicit. This article presents an empirical analysis of how…

Culturally responsive community-school partnerships can help support students' well-being, and the facilitators, barriers, and benefits of community-school partnerships in Indigenous communities may be unique due to historic and contemporary sociopolitical influences. The aims of the current study were to explore facilitators, barriers, and…

This paper aims to relate how university educators act with leisure and analyze the relationship between the context of education and manifestations of leisure in the studied Programme. The research investigated university students who actuate in schools through the Programme "Escola da Família" on the weekends. They carry out workshops,…

Consumer and community involvement (also referred to as patient and public involvement) in health-related curricula involves actively partnering with people with lived experience of health and social care systems. While health professions education has a long history of interaction with patients or consumers, a shift in the way consumer and…

Background: Limited work has been done to integrate ethical leadership and anti-racist school leadership practice. Through narrative ethics, this paper links caring with race-consciousness to form a foundation for critical praxis. Purpose: The authors address the limitations of caring leadership by arguing for a race-conscious narrative ethics…

Online education crowdfunding attracts public school teachers with its enormous outsourcing opportunities, but its success is constantly challenged by information asymmetry and information overload. To assist the teachers in successfully collecting teaching funds in crowdfunding, three studies are conducted to address the two challenges.…

Unprecedented global temperatures have brought the question of how to teach sensitive issues of climate change to the fore. In this paper we suggest that a refocusing on adaptation productively shifts the debate to climate justice and practical solutions to building community resilience. The paper examines a practice-led project that sought to…

This study examined the extent and nature of parental involvement in the education of students with visual impairment in the city of Woldia, Ethiopia, as well as the associated challenges these parents face. A qualitative approach was employed, utilising a case-study design. A purposive sample of 14 participants, consisting of parents of students…

Counselor education needs innovative approaches to research that align with counseling values including the multicultural social justice counseling competencies. Community-based participatory research can be used as an approach to bridge gaps in research and promote equity, social justice competencies, and ethical standards in the field of…

We discuss why Christian higher education is marginalized by way of Charles Taylor's claims that a modern secular conception of selfhood presumes a buffered (isolated, atomized) mind disengaged and disidentified from broader community and experientially transcendent sources of meaning. We show how community-engaged education combined with…