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West, Travis – Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education, 2023
Community engagement programs offer college students an opportunity to impact youth in rural, low-income communities. While in a rural setting where educational training and support is not abundant, college students learn about struggles that rural, low-income youth face in exploring and attending postsecondary education options. The Alternative…
Descriptors: College Students, Service Learning, Elementary Secondary Education, Rural Youth
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Janise S. Parker; Natoya Haskins; Aiesha Lee; Amber Rodenbo; Elsbeth O'Brien – School Psychology Review, 2024
This phenomenological study used individual interviews with ten graduate students in school counseling and school psychology to understand their experiences in a University-Church service-learning partnership to support PreK-12th grade youth in response to COVID-19. Most graduate participants identified as White/Non-Hispanic, and all youth served…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, School Counseling, School Psychology, Service Learning
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Geller, Joanna D.; Zuckerman, Natalie; Seidel, Adam – Education and Urban Society, 2016
Service-learning has the potential to create mutually beneficial relationships between schools and communities, but little research explores service-learning from the community's perspective. The purpose of this study was to (a) understand how community-based organizations (CBOs) benefited from partnering with students and (b) examine whether…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Community Development, Community Benefits, Partnerships in Education
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Gonsalves, Susan – Tech Directions, 2011
Identifying a community problem or need and helping to solve it via student-led initiatives is at the heart of service learning. Projects can tackle social issues with global impact or fill in a smaller local need using creativity and ingenuity. Service learning projects can range from a few weeks to a full semester or longer. Where service…
Descriptors: Student Empowerment, Service Learning, Partnerships in Education, Student Projects
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Hipsky, Shellie; Scigliano, Deborah; Parker, David – Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership, 2013
Due to the closing of the GM Manufacturing Plants, Grand Rapids, Michigan area experienced an extreme loss of jobs, which led to low-socioeconomic hardships such as "food insecurity" that was witnessed in the needs of the many students who attend the Grand Rapid Public Schools. This case provides insight into how educational leader…
Descriptors: Nutrition, Hunger, School Community Programs, School Community Relationship
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Intrator, Sam M.; Siegel, Donald – Penn GSE Perspectives on Urban Education, 2010
Project Coach is an after school program developed and directed by the authors. The program, which is set in a high-need urban community in Springfield, Massachusetts, teaches high school and middle school students to be sport coaches and then to run youth sport leagues for elementary-aged youth in underserved neighborhoods in their own community.…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, Outreach Programs, After School Programs, Service Learning
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Hallman, Heidi L. – Teaching Education, 2012
The present article discusses the importance of community-based field experiences as a feature of teacher education programs. Through a qualitative case study, prospective teachers' work with homeless youth in an after-school initiative is presented. Framing community-based field experiences in teacher education through "third space" theory, the…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Homeless People, Field Experience Programs, Qualitative Research
Onore, Cynthia; Gildin, Bonny – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2010
Despite progress in urban teacher preparation over the past 40 years, concerns still remain about transforming programs and practices in order to affect teachers' capacities to work with culturally diverse communities. These concerns include time in course curricula for discussion and reflection on field-based work, adequate supervision in…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Community Development, Urban Schools, Urban Teaching
Lefkowits, Laura; Diamond, Barbara – Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning (McREL), 2009
What if, in 2020, a new generation of leaders ends the war in Iraq and turns its attention to pressing domestic issues eventually resulting in a healthier economy and renewed investments in the urban core? What if, in 2020, having tried and failed at the beginning of the 21st century to improve urban education with prescriptive, high stakes…
Descriptors: State Officials, Urban Education, Educational Policy, Educational Administration
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Taylor, Henry Louis, Jr.; McGlynn, Linda Greenough – New Directions for Youth Development, 2009
Universities, because of their vast human and fiscal resources, can play the central role in assisting in the development of school-centered community development programs that make youth development their top priority. The Futures Academy, a K-8 public school in the Fruit Belt, an inner-city neighborhood in Buffalo, New York, offers a useful…
Descriptors: Community Development, Youth Programs, Educational Opportunities, Educational Change
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Sakar, A. Nurhan; Ozturk, Oznur – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2011
In 2006, following the Bologna Process, Turkish Council of Higher Education (YOK) adopted a resolution and changed the curriculum of teacher training higher education institutions. This curriculum revision introduced a new course called "Community Service" which aims to raise students' awareness of their responsibilities as individuals…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Distance Education, Blended Learning, Web Based Instruction
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Morris, Ronald Vaughan – International Journal of Social Education, 2008
This article discusses extra-curricular social studies in an Open Air History Museum. Open Air History Museum, Conner Prairie Interpretive Park in Fishers, Indiana, is a cultural institution that encourages and supports talented students as they participate in an extra-curricular program. Ten-to sixteen-year-old youths "apply for jobs"…
Descriptors: Gifted, Professional Personnel, Museums, Social Studies