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Higgins, Daryl J. – Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 2010
In this resource sheet, Dr Higgins examines child abuse and neglect in Indigenous communities from a societal perspective: applying a community development framework to understand effective strategies for reducing risks and enhancing children's safety and wellbeing. To be effective, strategies to address the problem of child abuse in Indigenous…
Descriptors: Community Development, Indigenous Populations, Child Abuse, Child Neglect
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Betiang, Liwhu – Research in Drama Education, 2010
About 60% of Nigerians live in rural areas with poor access roads and health facilities, near-absent communication media, unemployment, alienation and disempowerment by the political leadership. This scenario has excluded the rural Nigerian from meaningful participation in development action. A bottom-up participatory approach to…
Descriptors: Rural Population, Environmental Education, Earth Science, Health Facilities
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Toledano, Lemuel Sollano; Lapinid, Minie Rose C. – Educational Research for Policy and Practice, 2010
This article argues that a commonly neglected dimension in service-learning pedagogy is the consideration of community perspectives in developing these service-learning projects. Areas considered in this study were: (1) Community members' needs and problems, (2) Community members' perceived roles and participation, and (3) Community members'…
Descriptors: Focus Groups, Economically Disadvantaged, Service Learning, Foreign Countries
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Ohmer, Mary L. – Journal of Community Psychology, 2008
A major resource of small voluntary neighborhood organizations is their members, who give their time and energy to the organization to improve their community. In recent years, there has been a revitalization of strategies that focus on engaging residents to volunteer for neighborhood-based organizations. The current study was guided by…
Descriptors: Community Development, Neighborhoods, Community Organizations, Mothers
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Lee, Michael G. – Religious Education, 2008
This article sets Dorothy Bass' Christian practices movement in critical dialogue with U.S. Latina/o popular religion in order to explore ways that these distinctive sets of practices could enrich one another. Then, it focuses on "shaping communities" as a Christian practice and correlates it with the U.S. Latina/o popular religious…
Descriptors: Religion, Religious Factors, Religious Education, Christianity
Dias, Mary Beatrice – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This research contributes to efforts in assessment studies related to science and technology interventions. The work presented in this thesis focuses on understanding the effects of policies that influence science and technology interventions, and determining the impact of science and technology interventions themselves. Chapter 1 explores how…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Program Effectiveness, Educational Technology, Assistive Technology
Liu, Ruo-lan; Lee, Hsin-hua – New Horizons in Education, 2011
Background: In view of the growing globalization, volunteer service organizations, local universities, colleges, and student groups have begun extending their service programs from Taiwan to other countries. This study employs a self-organized, self-funded group of university students participating in international service-learning as its subject,…
Descriptors: Community Development, College Students, Nursery Schools, Global Approach
Andresen, Will – Illinois Institute for Rural Affairs, 2009
A considerable literature exists documenting the migration movements of individuals. For example, James Jasper (2000) has written that Americans "change our residence... more often than any other culture except nomadic tribes". The average American moves every five years, making this compulsion to move an important part of the culture.…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Rural Education, Young Adults, Professional Personnel
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Harmon, Hobarat L.; Schafft, Kai – Rural Educator, 2009
In this article we address the role of rural schools in community development. We first discuss the largely historical linkages between rural schools and the communities they serve, and what this means for both school and community well-being. We then consider the newly revised standards for preparing school administrators, developed by the…
Descriptors: Community Development, Rural Schools, Instructional Leadership, School Community Relationship
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Stedman, Richard; Lee, Brian; Brasier, Kathryn; Weigle, Jason L.; Higdon, Francis – Rural Sociology, 2009
Recent initiatives from state and federal government agencies have helped foster the formation of community-based watershed organizations. Although there is a great deal of enthusiasm about the potential of these organizations to enhance water quality, relatively little attention has been paid to the impacts these organizations may have on the…
Descriptors: Water Quality, Environmental Education, Sequential Approach, Mail Surveys
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Clopton, Aaron – New Directions for Higher Education, 2009
There is extensive research literature addressing the impact that the college experience has on students, linking the campus environment to their persistence and graduation, satisfaction, sense of community, academic and social integration, and academic performance. Researchers have yet to fully address the connection between students identifying…
Descriptors: Community Development, Social Integration, Academic Persistence, Educational Experience
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Witt, Ann-Katrin – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2009
In spite of engagement and efforts to bring about gender equality in Swedish universities, gender division paradoxically appears in both old and new degree programs and academic disciplines. In recent years there has been a tendency for higher education students to enrol in degree programmes rather than in single subject courses. Due to the…
Descriptors: Community Development, Higher Education, Social Action, Educational Practices
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Mayo, Marjorie; Gaventa, John; Rooke, Alison – Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 2009
This article identifies historical connections between adult learning, popular education and the emergence of the public sphere in Europe, exploring potential implications for adult learning and community development, drawing upon research evaluating programmes to promote community-based learning "for" active citizenship in UK. The…
Descriptors: Community Development, Popular Education, Citizenship, Adult Learning
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Pawlowski, Krzysztof – Higher Education in Europe, 2009
Beginning with a view of the role of tertiary-level educational institutions in the globalizing world and the condition of the Polish higher education system in 2007, the author presents the factors affecting the regional development as well as those that exert the strongest influence on long-term regional development. While examining current…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Regional Programs, Economic Impact, Global Approach
James, Patricia; Maslin, Mindy; Pringle, Susan M.; Van Clief, Barbara – Metropolitan Universities, 2010
The University Green program of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (PHS) is an urban forestry partnership between four universities and their surrounding communities. The program offers excellent strategies for fostering improved college-community relations and stewardship by students and residents alike. University Green aims to improve the…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Forestry, Partnerships in Education, Horticulture
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