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Rural Community and Career Connected Learning: Impacts of High School Internships Prioritizing People and Place
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Allison L. Ricket; Jacqueline Yahn; Emily Bentley – Journal of Research in Rural Education, 2023
This study examines the outcomes of non-school internships hosted by two Appalachian Ohio organizations: Rural Action and Building Bridges to Careers (BB2C). As intermediary organizations, these entities work outside the boundaries of formal schooling to address issues of youth outmigration and sustainable community development through high school…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Rural Areas, Internship Programs, High School Students
Mindful Service-Learning: An Innovative Pedagogical Approach -- "Tend the World and You Tend Yourself: Tend Yourself and You Tend the World"
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Helen Damon-Moore – Journal of Service-Learning in Higher Education, 2024
Why Mindful Service-learning? While over 30 years of service-learning has yielded many benefits, I have found that students today are more stressed than ever, that meaningful and effective preparation for reciprocal service-learning can be lacking, and that an exclusively Western perspective could be expanded to include Eastern views, thereby…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Service Learning, Educational Innovation, Teaching Methods
Changing Urban Landscapes through Public Higher Education. Advances in Higher Education and Professional Development (AHEPD) Book Series
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Burtin, Anika Spratley; Fleming, Jeffrey S. – IGI Global, 2018
Outreach and engagement initiatives are crucial in promoting community development. This can be achieved through a number of methods, including institutions of higher education. "Changing Urban Landscapes through Public Higher Education" is a critical scholarly resource that examines the unique ways in which the faculty and students of…
Descriptors: Community Development, School Community Relationship, Higher Education, Urban Universities
Eportfolios: Proving Competency and Building a Network
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Kryder, LeeAnne G. – Business Communication Quarterly, 2011
Use of eportfolios for business communication students in an advanced two-quarter capstone brought an unexpected networking opportunity, in addition to their conventional use as a showcase for student writing and research. This article discusses how students developed their eportfolios. Then, through use of a course website providing an optional…
Descriptors: College Students, Business Administration Education, Electronic Publishing, Competency Based Education
Changing Configurations of Adult Education in Transitional Times. Conference Proceedings of the Triennial European Research Conference of the European Society for Research on the Education of Adults (ESREA) (7th, Berlin, Germany, September 4-7, 2013)
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Käpplinger, Bernd, Ed.; Lichte, Nina, Ed.; Haberzeth, Erik, Ed.; Kulmus, Claudia, Ed. – Online Submission, 2014
This book assembles over 50 papers from the 7th Triennial European Research Conference of the European Society for Research on the Education of Adults (ESREA), which was held from the 4th to the 7th of September 2013 at Humboldt-University in Berlin. The title of the conference was "Changing Configurations of Adult Education in Transitional…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Higher Education, Nontraditional Students
Neighborhood Planning through Community Service-Learning: The Empowerment of East Sprague Neighborhood Residents in Spokane, Washington
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Winchell, Dick G. – Metropolitan Universities, 2006
This essay explores Eastern Washington University's East Central Neighborhood Partnership Center project, which utilized coordinated community service-learning classes and internships to create a neighborhood revitalization plan in partnership with a neighborhood council and community-based organizations. The author explores the ways in which the…
Descriptors: Empowerment, Community Needs, Community Involvement, Service Learning