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Pulsifer, Kenzie; Feagan, Robert B.; Sliwinski, Alicia – Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 2020
International experiential learning (IEL) has various pedagogical concerns associated with the colonial and racialized lineage underlying its Global South engagements. Drawing on critical race theory, White privilege, and globally engaged learning research as they inform IEL, this case-based study of "northern" participant perceptions of…
Descriptors: Race, Service Learning, Partnerships in Education, Foreign Countries
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Coughlan, Tim; Goff, Jenny – Journal of Learning for Development, 2019
Open online courses could provide stepping stones for audiences that are underrepresented in higher education (HE). However, there are concerns that these instead proliferate forms of exclusion and do not address known difficulties for widening participation. We explore how organisations that represent the perspectives of particular underserved…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Partnerships in Education, Participation, Access to Education
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Litchfield, Kaitlin; Javernick-Will, Amy – Journal of Engineering Education, 2015
Background: Socially engaged engineering activities such as community development have grown rapidly in popularity. The engineers who participate in these activities seem more diverse and more broadly interested than the larger population of engineers in the United States. Purpose/Hypothesis: This article compares the personal attributes,…
Descriptors: Technical Occupations, Personality Traits, Engineering Education, Student Motivation
Corporation for National and Community Service, 2014
The Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) supports mentoring for children and youth from disadvantaged circumstances through several of their programs. CNCS believes that caring and capable adults can make a critical difference in the lives of children and youth in need. Mentoring is a proven method to ensure students complete…
Descriptors: Mentors, Disadvantaged Youth, Children, Capacity Building
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Darling, Brianna; Thorp, Laurie; Chung, Kimberly – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2014
The Peace Corps Masters International program offers students the opportunity to combine their Peace Corps service with their master's education. This article demonstrates how classroom learning strengthened the author's Peace Corps service in Tanzania, which in turn strengthened her master's thesis. Peace Corps supports an approach to community…
Descriptors: Voluntary Agencies, Volunteers, Volunteer Training, Service Learning
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Zeitlin, Wendy; Claiborne, Nancy; Lawrence, Catherine K.; Auerbach, Charles – Research on Social Work Practice, 2016
Objective: Organizational climate has emerged as an important factor in understanding and addressing the complexities of providing services in child welfare. This research examines the psychometric properties of each of the dimensions of Parker and colleagues' Psychological Climate Survey in a sample of voluntary child welfare workers. Methods:…
Descriptors: Program Validation, Psychological Evaluation, Psychological Studies, Child Welfare
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Rauschenbach, Thomas; Riedel, Birgit – Early Child Development and Care, 2016
In a European comparison, the childcare profession in Germany has taken a distinct path of development which is closely interwoven with the history of early childhood education and care (ECEC) in general. Institutional choices critical to this path are the assignment of childcare as part of social welfare, the pursuit of a maternalist tradition in…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Governance, Child Care, Early Childhood Education
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Ressler, Patrick – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2013
The article investigates the spread of one of the first pedagogical concepts available worldwide during the first half of the nineteenth century: the monitorial system. Its wide diffusion depended, to a considerable extent, on the work of voluntary organisations. The article investigates the work of the two most important of these, the British and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Marketing, Educational History, Educational Change
Stanistreet, Paul – Adults Learning, 2012
While her background leading a variety of public, private and voluntary sector organisations was not an obvious preparation for her new role as General Secretary of the Workers' Educational Association, the WEA is, nevertheless, in Ruth Spellman's blood. Her grandfather, who left school at 12, became fully numerate and literate through WEA courses…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Lifelong Learning, Voluntary Agencies, Volunteers
Phillips, Beth M.; Mazzeo, Debbie; Smith, Kevin – Regional Educational Laboratory Southeast, 2016
This Self-Study Guide has been developed to support Florida Voluntary Prekindergarten Providers (VPK) who are required to complete an improvement plan process (i.e., low-performing providers). The guide has sections that can be used during both the process of selecting target areas for an improvement plan and the process of implementing new or…
Descriptors: Self Evaluation (Groups), Preschool Education, Voluntary Agencies, Educational Improvement
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Quigley, Kevin F. F. – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2013
A number of structural and contextual changes underway suggests that now that the Peace Corps has begun its second half-century, it may be the opportune time for a broader and deeper strategic partnership with higher education along the lines that the Peace Corps founders' envisioned. That partnership would involve higher education playing an…
Descriptors: Graduate Study, Volunteer Training, Volunteers, Higher Education
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McCaffery, Juliet – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2014
In this article the author reflects on some of the methodological issues of conducting research in a local marginalised community in the UK. Her research was on attitudes to literacy in the Gypsy and Traveller community in southern England. This article describes some of the challenges and how she, as an outsider and not a member of their…
Descriptors: Minority Groups, Disadvantaged, Foreign Countries, Literacy
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Kosheleva, Natalia; Segone, Marco – American Journal of Evaluation, 2013
In many less developed democracies Voluntary Organizations for Professional Evaluation (VOPEs) face the challenges of low demand for evaluation and the resulting low economic capacity of national evaluation communities. The VOPE model that evolved in well-developed democracies is not directly applicable under these circumstances, so a new model…
Descriptors: Voluntary Agencies, Evaluation, Developing Nations, Professional Associations
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Prakash, Aseem; Potoski, Matthew – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2012
Voluntary environmental programs (VEPs) are institutions for inducing firms to produce environmental goods beyond legal requirements. A comparative perspective on VEPs shows how incentives to sponsor and participate in VEPs vary across countries in ways that reveal their potential and limitations. Our brief survey examines conditions under which…
Descriptors: Conservation (Environment), Pollution, Voluntary Agencies, Programs
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Quintelier, Ellen – Youth & Society, 2015
Starting from a political socialization perspective, this study examined the development of political participation during adolescence and early adulthood. We explore the effect of parents, peers, school media, and voluntary associations on political participation. Self-reported data were collected from 3,025 Belgian adolescents at three points in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Young Adults, Citizen Participation
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