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Ruef, Martin; Patterson, Kelly – Social Forces, 2009
Under conditions of uncertainty, we predict that development will be tied to the idiosyncrasy of organizational forms represented within local regions. Our investigation applies this theory to data on 342 counties and 43,352 businesses in the U.S. South during Reconstruction, finding support for the thesis that organizational idiosyncrasy…
Descriptors: United States History, Community Development, Business, Counties
Carm, Ellen – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2012
Through cross-disciplinary and participatory processes involving key stakeholders from the Zambian education sector, as well as from the traditional leadership structure, a localized HIV/AIDS-prevention strategy, Interactive School and Community Approach (ISACA), was developed and implemented throughout one province between 2002 and 2006. The…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Constructivism (Learning), Indigenous Knowledge
Harman, Danna – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2007
In this article, the author features Ben Gurion University of the Negev, which was established in 1969 in Beersheba, the south's largest city, with a self-proclaimed double mission: to educate students and to help solve the many problems that have plagued the communities that surround it. While it is clear that one university cannot solve the…
Descriptors: Universities, School Community Relationship, Community Development, Foreign Countries
Diaz, Joseph Orlando Prewitt – American Psychologist, 2008
This article describes the role of psychosocial support programs in American Red Cross-sponsored humanitarian assistance efforts in international disasters. The American Red Cross psychosocial support program consists of four specific components: participatory crisis assessment, dealing with survivors' root shock, community mobilization, and…
Descriptors: Community Development, Human Capital, Mentors, Familiarity
Chaskin, Robert J. – Child Care in Practice, 2008
This article explores the idea of community as it relates to the concept of resilience. It focuses on community both as context (local environments providing a set of risk and protective factors that have an influence on the well-being of community members) and as collective actors that can exhibit resilience in themselves by organizing and acting…
Descriptors: Community Development, Coping, Disadvantaged, Context Effect
Ziegler, Mary F.; Davis, Dent C. – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2008
Legislation over the past two decades has shaped the dominant view of adult literacy as addressing gaps in well-defined, measurable skills. As rural communities face unprecedented challenges, this one-size-fits-all view of adult literacy does not consider the unique local context of rural communities or involve those communities in defining their…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Adult Literacy, Community Development, Basic Skills
Salant, Priscilla; Laumatia, Laura – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2011
The Coeur d'Alene Reservation spans 345,000 acres of mountains and farmland in northern Idaho. Most people on the reservation live in the communities of Worley, Plummer, Tensed, and Desmet. Roughly 50 miles south of Plummer is the University of Idaho's main campus in Moscow. The university is Idaho's land-grant institution, with a statewide…
Descriptors: Community Leaders, Community Development, Strategic Planning, Land Use
Webber, Henry S.; Karlstrom, Mikael – Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago, 2009
This report was written out of a recognition that there has been little effort to systematically examine the value to anchor institutions of engaging in significant community investment. In the absence of such research, the authors believe that institutions tend to overestimate the costs and risks and underappreciate the potential benefits. In…
Descriptors: Urban Areas, Urban Planning, Urban Renewal, Community Development
Urquieta-Salomon, Jose E.; Tepichin-Valle, Ana Maria; Tellez-Rojo, Martha Maria – Evaluation Review, 2009
The objective of this study is to evaluate the impact of a pilot study that promoted productive and capacity-building activities among deprived rural women of Mexico. The evaluation design is observational; 1,278 women are interviewed, and the comparison group is estimated by propensity score matching. The results show a positive impact on the…
Descriptors: Females, Pilot Projects, Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries
Scanlon, Eileen – Distance Education, 2012
This article focuses on the potential of free tools, particularly inquiry tools for influencing participation in twenty-first-century learning in science, as well as influencing the development of communities around tools. Two examples are presented: one on the development of an open source tool for structured inquiry learning that can bridge the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Community Development, Observation, Science Instruction
Harris, David G.; Chupp, Mark G. – Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development (NJ1), 2010
Residents of East Cleveland are fighting to improve the quality of public education and access to vocational opportunities. "White flight" (Frey, 1979, p. 425), economic disinvestment, and ineffective political leadership have led to the disadvantages faced by East Cleveland (Kathi & Cooper, 2005). Nearly 1,200 vacant structures…
Descriptors: Community Development, Urban Schools, Service Learning, Community Organizations
Rennie, Hamish G. – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2010
The experience in developing a student-led academic journal, the Lincoln Planning Review, to provide experiential learning that links undergraduates in a small professional planning programme directly to research publication is described. A combination of circumstances, including an impending review of the programme by the external professional…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Experiential Learning, Academic Discourse
Onore, Cynthia; Gildin, Bonny – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2010
Despite progress in urban teacher preparation over the past 40 years, concerns still remain about transforming programs and practices in order to affect teachers' capacities to work with culturally diverse communities. These concerns include time in course curricula for discussion and reflection on field-based work, adequate supervision in…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Community Development, Urban Schools, Urban Teaching
Rural Schools and Communities: How Globalization Influences Rural School and Community Collaboration
Butler, Thomas – ProQuest LLC, 2008
This study examined how a rural school district and the communities in which the district belonged collaborated on a community development initiative. This dissertation examined the opportunities and constraints rural communities are facing and the role that a rural school system could play in increasing social and economic sustainability of rural…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, School Districts, School Community Relationship, Global Approach
Kasumagic, Larisa – International Review of Education, 2008
In the aftermath of the Bosnian war, the country has been challenged with the task of responding to the atrocities that culminated in the killing of thousands of people. Furthermore, the country's resultant political instability and economic underdevelopment have been complicated by the multiple transitions to which it has been subject since the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, War, Community Development, Youth Programs