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Kassu Jilcha; Biniyam Bekele; Gezahegn Tesfaye – Knowledge Management & E-Learning, 2025
Indigenous community knowledge is indeed essential for the sustainable development of community and University-Industry Linkage (UIL) initiatives. It provides valuable local contextualized expertise, engages local indigenous stakeholders, bridges the gap between academia, industry, and the community, incorporates local traditions and indigenous…
Descriptors: Indigenous Knowledge, School Business Relationship, Community Development, Sustainable Development
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Richi Simon – Higher Education for the Future, 2024
Field action projects are a distinguishing feature in social work education and practice and can serve as a live lab for social work students. Many renowned social work educational institutions began with the field action projects and developed them to a significant level. The state of Madhya Pradesh, India has several problems, and field action…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Work, Counselor Training, Field Studies
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Esra Bayhantopcu; Ignacio Aymerich Ojea – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2024
Purpose: Academic institutions have the power to generate positive change by implementing sustainable development initiatives. This study aims to make a holistic assessment of the universities' sustainability practices by explicitly focusing on equality and communication and by providing a general model for a university sustainability structure.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sustainability, Administrators, College Administration
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Souresh Cornet; Saswat Barpanda; Marc-Antoine Diego Guidi; P. K. Viswanathan – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2024
Purpose: This study aims at understanding how higher education institutions (HEIs) can contribute to sustainable development, by designing their programmes for bringing about a transformative impact on communities and students, and also to examine what alternative pedagogical approaches could be used for that. In the past decades, HEIs have…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sustainability, Higher Education, Community Development
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Ademola Olumuyiwa Omotosho – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2024
Purpose: This study aims to explore the contribution of Enactus sustainability initiatives to youth empowerment and community development, thus analysing how South African higher education institutions can increase student involvement in Enactus projects across all faculties. Design/methodology/approach: Using a systematic literature review…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sustainability, Community Development, Student Empowerment
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Useh, Ushotanefe – Higher Education for the Future, 2021
Purpose and Significance: Education is regarded as the key to economic development, and COVID-19 has provided all universities the unique opportunity to urgently address their fitness for purpose. Universities can play a significant role in contributing to a more sustainable world by mainstreaming Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, COVID-19, Pandemics, Graduate Students
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Sana Kim; Roberta Comunian – Industry and Higher Education, 2024
This article examines the role creative and cultural higher education plays in the top-down development of Astana -- the new capital of Kazakhstan. Drawing on a mapping of higher education institutions in Kazakhstan's old (Almaty) and new capital cities as well as qualitative interview data with creative and cultural practitioners, academics and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Cultural Education, Creativity
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Mazzurco, Andrea; Daniel, Scott – Journal of Engineering Education, 2020
Background: Humanitarian engineering (HE) is rapidly emerging in universities and professional workplaces worldwide. In HE, socio-technical thinking is fundamental as HE projects exist at the intersection of engineering and sustainable community development. However, the literature still lacks an understanding of the key features of…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Engineering Education, Sustainable Development, Community Development
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Joe Campbell; Kylienne Shaul; Kristina M. Slagle; David Sovic – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2024
Purpose: Prior research suggests that collaboration is key to sustainable community development and environmental management, and peer-to-peer learning (P2PL) may facilitate community building and collaborative learning skills. This study aims to examine the effect of P2PL on the enhancement of environmental management and sustainable development…
Descriptors: Community Development, Sustainable Development, Electronic Learning, In Person Learning
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Baroroh, Kiromim; Wahjoedi; Wahyono, Hari; Utomo, Sugeng Hadi; Lestari, Febriyanti – International Journal of Instruction, 2021
Village tourism is a type of tourism which integrates nature, culture, education, and the active participation of the local. It is intended to improve the community's prosperity. This model aligns with the Community Economy (CE) concept which advocates for people's well-being. This paper aims to describe the ways in which village tourism is…
Descriptors: Municipalities, Tourism, Community Development, Rural Economics
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Franco, Isabel B.; Tracey, James – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2019
Purpose: Although the value of community capacity building is widely accepted within scholarly literature, these initiatives thus far appear to have achieved very little impact in the achievement of community development aspirations. This paper aims to increase knowledge regarding specific priority areas which when targeted will result in more…
Descriptors: Capacity Building, Sustainable Development, Community Development, Goal Orientation
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Groulx, Mark; Nowak, Nadia; Levy, Kristin; Booth, Annie – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2021
Purpose: This paper aims to examine the broad concept of university-community partnerships as it applies to creating sustainability initiatives. The benefits of university-community partnerships are increasingly recognized, and this paper offers direct insights from community stakeholders on the principles, functions and activities they see as…
Descriptors: Community Needs, School Community Relationship, Universities, Stakeholders
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Arko-Achemfuor, Akwasi; Romm, Norma; Serolong, Lesego – International Journal for Transformative Research, 2019
In this article we offer a discussion around our academic-practitioner involvements with one another and with a targeted community, in relation to a particular project. In the title of the article, we have hyphenated the term "academic-practitioner" to render fuzzy the distinction between "academic" roles (associated with…
Descriptors: Agricultural Occupations, Indigenous Knowledge, Sustainable Development, Transformative Learning
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Brown, Aaron; Bauer, Michael – Athens Journal of Education, 2021
Engineers provide essential services to society, solving pressing challenges through technological inventiveness. Students new to engineering often cite the lure of creative problem solving as attracting them to the discipline. However, traditional engineering curricula typically focus on a narrow application of fundamentals for solving…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Service Learning, Community Development, Sustainable Development
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Mbah, Marcellus – Journal of Environmental Education, 2019
Against the backdrop of Africa's quest for development, there have been emerging demands for its universities to do more in contributing to development drives beyond their immediate sphere of operation. Drawing on an instrumental case study within an African community, this article heartens a reconsideration of African universities' community…
Descriptors: Indigenous Knowledge, School Community Relationship, Universities, Case Studies
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