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Lewis, Lydia – Research Papers in Education, 2023
The purpose of this paper is to engage critically with debates surrounding the mental health and wellbeing agenda for adult community learning (ACL), with particular consideration of creative arts provision. It draws on a qualitative research project involving five creative arts ACL groups in the English West Midlands and two mental health…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Well Being, Adult Education, Community Centers
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Dicindio, Carissa – Studies in Art Education: A Journal of Issues and Research in Art Education, 2023
This article examines how community art centers of the Federal Art Project (FAP) of the Works Progress Administration served as a third space, one that was explicitly designed to be different from art museums at that time. Created to employ artists during the Great Depression under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, goals of FAP programs included…
Descriptors: Art Education, Federal Programs, Art History, Community Centers
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Belete, Sonja; Duke, Chris; Hinzen, Heribert; Owusu-Boampong, Angela; Khau, Huu Phuoc – International Review of Education, 2022
Institutionalised forms of adult learning and education (ALE) such as community learning centres (CLCs) and related models are found in most parts of the world. These are spaces offering opportunities for literacy and skills training, health and citizenship, general, liberal and vocational education, in line with fuller recognition of the meaning…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Education, Community Programs, Lifelong Learning
Thongdee, Vitthaya; Promgun, Suraphon; Sawadtha, Suthipong; Namsithan, Somkhoun; Thubphumee, Phanthiwa; Ruangsan, Niraj – Online Submission, 2022
This research studied the contextual conditions of Khon Kaen Urban Community for developing the community learning center (CLC) as a part of smart city development. It also aimed to develop 'Bue Ban' CLC model based on the public participation and digital advancement. This study was carried out employing the qualitative and operational research…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Community Centers, Community Education, Community Programs
Margaret O'Connell Hanna – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The question of how to support the early literacy development of children experiencing marginalization through systematically under-resourced urban schools and neighborhoods has been taken up in a variety of ways in educational research. The correlation between socioeconomic status, race, ethnicity, and literacy is well documented, however, this…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Community Programs, Reading Instruction, Literacy Education
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Akintolu, Morakinyo; Uleanya, Chinaza; Letseka, Moeketsi – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2022
Education is a major tool for development and equalizer. This somewhat accounts for the quest for education, at various levels, including adults who were unable to attain an education degree earlier in life. Thus, Adult Education and Training (AET) programmes are established in different community centres to promote adult literacy in different…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Education, Community Centers, Community Programs