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Brent Brodie; Lorna Schwartzentruber; Shawna Teper; Byron Gray – Metropolitan Universities, 2024
This article investigates how strategic community partnerships form the bedrock of successful institutional community engagement activities. In this investigation, these engagements encourage institutional practitioners to consider how truly effective community economic development materializes when the university assumes a reactionary role by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Community Relationship, School Community Programs, Partnerships in Education
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Mitchell McLarnon – Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education, 2024
This paper describes and analyzes the social relations that emerged from an ongoing adult education internship/community-based garden project in Montreal. I employ institutional ethnography to explore and uncover how adult education internships in community gardens and gardening programming can work to produce disproportionate outcomes for adult…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Education, Internship Programs, Gardening
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Venessa Kelly; E. Brännlund – Irish Educational Studies, 2025
Increased scholarly and practitioner attention has been paid to community gardens and their potential impact on community building and sustainability, as well as a tool to combat the decline in physical and mental well-being connected to childhood obesity. Specifically, community gardens may play a role in on families' eating habits, and there is…
Descriptors: Gardening, Eating Habits, Community Programs, Parent Attitudes
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Andy Garbacz; Tory L. Ash; Rachel T. Santiago – Grantee Submission, 2024
Social and emotional learning (SEL) is inherently relational, shaped by the interactions children have within their homes, schools, and communities. Grounded in ecological systems theory, this chapter explores how family-school-community partnerships can serve as a powerful mechanism for promoting SEL and fostering positive developmental outcomes.…
Descriptors: Child Development, Social Emotional Learning, Partnerships in Education, Community Involvement