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Joy L. Hart; Andrea Radasanu; Timothy Nichols; Rebecca C. Bott-Knutson; Jonathan Kotinek – Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, 2024
Drawing inspiration from Dr. Ada Long's (1995) presidential address, the authors describe an experience that facilitates neighborhood-building among honors educators and students across the nation as well as a neighborhood approach to understanding social problems. Focusing on food justice in the first year of the Justice Challenge, honors…
Descriptors: Honors Curriculum, Higher Education, Community Development, Neighborhoods
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Baldwin, Sue; Kasevich, Heidi; Kertsman, Stacey; Jasper, Kathryn; Rosi, Regina; Ryan, Kristin; Sahr, David; Shah, Koyen Parikh; Wolf, Sarah – Social Education, 2016
Teaching leadership skills is an important goal for many schools, both within the curriculum and beyond it. The traditional definition of a leader has been based on a hierarchy, with levels, a chain of command, and a "top dog." Yet other definitions exist, and for girls and women a redefined view incorporates an alternative concept of…
Descriptors: Leadership Qualities, Leadership Training, Females, Skill Development
Corporation for National and Community Service, 2017
AmeriCorps NCCC (National Civilian Community Corps) is a full-time, team-based residential program for men and women ages 18-24. AmeriCorps NCCC members are assigned to one of five regional campuses into teams of approximately ten members and complete 2-3 month projects responding to local communities' needs throughout the United States. To…
Descriptors: Residential Programs, Late Adolescents, Young Adults, Volunteers
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Wright, Dana E. – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
Community change approaches have increasingly involved participatory practices in which community members directly impacted by an issue participate in implementing change efforts. However, community participation as a practice and approach does not always include youth participation. Within the field of youth organizing, young people are…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, Citizen Participation, Activism, Capacity Building