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Art Education and Creative Aging: Older Adults as Learners, Makers, and Teachers of Art
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Melanie Davenport, Editor; Linda Hoeptner Poling, Editor; Rébecca Bourgault, Editor; Marjorie Cohee Manifold, Editor – National Art Education Association, 2024
This text explores how art education can meaningfully address the needs of older adults as learners, makers, and teachers of art in formal and informal settings. It combines perspectives of museum educators, teacher preparation professors, art therapists, teaching artists, and older artists on what is meant by Creative Aging and the ways art…
Descriptors: Art Education, Older Adults, Informal Education, Creativity
University-Community Partnerships for Transformative Education: Sowing Seeds of Resistance and Renewal
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Mara Welsh Mahmood, Editor; Marjorie Elaine, Editor; John Cano, Editor – Palgrave Macmillan, 2024
This open access edited volume reports on a unique network of innovative in-school and out-of-school programs, University-Community Links. UC Links connects university faculty and students with young people and their families in diverse communities around the world. Chapters in this volume describe programs in the United States (California) as…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, College School Cooperation, Universities, Transformative Learning
At Our Best: Building Youth-Adult Partnerships in Out-of-School Time Settings. Current Issues in Out-of-School Time
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Brion-Meisels, Gretchen, Ed.; Fei, Jessica Tseming, Ed.; Vasudevan, Deepa Sriya, Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2020
"At Our Best: Building Youth-Adult Partnerships in Out-of-School Time Settings" brings together the voices of over 50 adults and youth to explore both the promises and challenges of intergenerational work in out-of-school time (OST) programs. Comprised of 14 chapters, this book features empirical research, conceptual essays, poetry,…
Descriptors: Adults, Youth, Role, Activism
The Leading Edge of Early Childhood Education: Linking Science to Policy for a New Generation
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Lesaux, Nonie K., Ed.; Jones, Stephanie M., Ed. – Harvard Education Press, 2016
"The Leading Edge of Early Childhood Education" aims to support the effort to simultaneously scale up and improve the quality of early childhood education by bringing together relevant insights from emerging research to provide guidance for this critical, fledgling field. It reflects the growing recognition that early childhood…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Academic Achievement, Cognitive Development, Emotional Development
Learning to Fly: Family-Oriented Literacy Education in Schools. Celebrating the Tenth Anniversary of Hamburg's Family Literacy Project 2004-2014
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Rabkin, Gabriele, Ed.; Roche, Stephen, Ed. – UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, 2014
This book was published to mark the tenth anniversary of Hamburg's award-winning Family Literacy project (FLY). It includes contributions from key stakeholders--academics, teachers, parents and children--participating in the conceptualization and implementation of FLY in the city of Hamburg. FLY mainly targets people from socially disadvantaged…
Descriptors: Family Literacy, Literacy Education, Futures (of Society), Foreign Countries
Technology and Diversity in Higher Education: New Challenges
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Inoue, Yukiko, Ed. – Information Science Publishing, 2007
Instructors at universities face many of the same concerns. They have to prepare and organize their courses, teach those courses and provide assignments, assess the learning of the students, and then evaluate the effectiveness of their teaching style. Even though these experiences are common, learning environments in higher education are…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Information Technology, Educational Technology, Campuses