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Beswick, Katie – Research in Drama Education, 2016
"Ten in Bed" was a project led by participatory arts organisation Phakama, in partnership with Queen Mary University of London. Over an eight-week period we ran a series of intermedial arts workshops and staged a performance with under five-year-olds and their families at a community centre in Bethnal Green, London. We attempted to…
Descriptors: Workshops, Foreign Countries, Critical Literacy, Universities
Woods, Sarah; Reed, B. J.; Smith-Howell, Deborah – Metropolitan Universities, 2016
Universities throughout the United States operate engagement centers to extend campus faculty, staff and student resources to their communities. In 2014, the University of Nebraska Omaha (UNO) opened the Barbara Weitz Community Engagement Center (Weitz CEC): a privately funded $24 million, 70,000 square foot facility located in the middle of its…
Descriptors: Community Centers, Universities, School Community Programs, Extension Education
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Field, Joseph A.; Elbert, Dennis J.; Moser, Steven B. – American Journal of Business Education, 2012
The usage of social media networks, such as websites like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, had become the number one activity on the internet by 2010. The sweeping increase in usage led organizations to explore the marketing possibilities the networks offered. The turning point occurred when organizations began to ask whether it was feasible to use…
Descriptors: Campuses, Social Networks, Mass Media Use, Web Sites
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DePalma, Renee; Rego, Miguel A. Santos; Moledo, Maria del Mar Lorenzo – Intercultural Education, 2006
Providing a teaching practicum where university students preparing to be teachers can interact with children from different cultures has been widely praised as an effective means to improve teachers' cross-cultural sensitivity and teaching effectiveness. However, some research suggests that direct experience with minority children may in fact…
Descriptors: Latin Americans, Practicums, Multicultural Education, Minority Group Children
Jackson, Henry E. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1918
To make more valuable to the people those things from which the people are accustomed to derive value has been appropriately been said to be the prime business of legislators. That the schoolhouse, whose value to the people is already great, may become still more valuable to them, is the purpose of the community-organization movement which the…
Descriptors: Community Organizations, Community Centers, Program Descriptions, Program Development