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Jane Asantewaa Appiah-Okyere – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study investigated the interplay of digital capacity building (skills) and infrastructure (Internet access) in shaping teaching and learning practices in a rural community. Educators in rural areas, especially in developing nations, face difficulties in accessing digital resources and Internet connectivity, which hinder the integration of…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Information Technology, Technology Integration, Rural Schools
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Lido, Catherine; Reid, Kate; Osborne, Michael – Oxford Review of Education, 2019
Despite UNESCO's Learning Cities agenda, which argues for the mobilisation of resources to promote education across all sectors and environments, there is little evaluative research on Learning City engagement which is both naturalistic and empirically rigorous. The research on informal adult learning in urban contexts is particularly sparse. This…
Descriptors: Social Media, Urban Areas, Adult Learning, Case Studies
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Miller, Suzanne S. – Childhood Education, 2012
In 1966, the author was part of the first group of Peace Corps volunteers in Micronesia. Acquired by the United States in WWII, Micronesia became a U.S. Trust Territory. It since has become an independent country, but through a "Compact of Free Association" (2003), the United States provides some financial support, and Micronesians are…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Foreign Countries, Financial Support, Disadvantaged
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Roets, Griet; Vandenabeele, Joke; Bouverne-De Bie, Maria – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2012
In this article, we focus on narrative practices in adult education in Flanders (the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium), and reflect on a current project in a multicultural neighbourhood that is socially and economically marked by poverty and where turbulence and conflict are rife amongst local inhabitants. While adult education aims to energize the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Neighborhoods, Cultural Pluralism, Democracy
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Groen, Janet – Convergence, 2005
Earl Shorris launched his presentation to 20 potential applicants for his newly developed humanities course directed toward the poor and disenfranchised in New York City. Since this inaugural course in New York, the Clemente Course has been launched in numerous centres across the United States, Canada, Australia, and Mexico. The course is named…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Introductory Courses, Higher Education, Humanities