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Leah Panther; Natasha N. Ramsay-Jordan; Lasha Lalana; Laura Eby – Social Education, 2023
The authors of this article represent an interdisciplinary team that includes a literacy teacher educator, a high school economics teacher, a community-based math educator, and a math teacher educator. Responding to the needs and building from the strengths of the local community, we co-designed with youth a community-based FLE workshop that…
Descriptors: Financial Literacy, Financial Education, Community Education, Community Involvement
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Eric Batts – Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences, 2024
Family and consumer sciences (FCS) educators are often tasked with teaching financial literacy to high school students. Many states have adopted financial literacy as a high school graduation course requirement. However, the need for financial literacy does not end in high school. Many parents could benefit from additional financial literacy…
Descriptors: Rural Population, Family (Sociological Unit), Financial Literacy, Parents
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Mary M. McConnaha; Joanne E. Marciano; Brittany M. Brewer; Lauren Elizabeth Reine Johnson – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2025
In the summer of 2020, amidst state-mandated social distancing and protests for racial justice, youth participating in an ongoing YPAR initiative sought to design and facilitate a book club for the residents of their subsidized housing community to increase community awareness of the Black Lives Matter movement. Through interviews, youth shared…
Descriptors: Books, Clubs, Community Involvement, Community Programs
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Hui-Ling Malone; Jasmine Y. Ma; Jessie Levandov – High School Journal, 2023
Given that learning is not neutral or politically innocent (Giroux, 1983) and education is shaped by one's sociopolitical context (Paris & Alim, 2017), this paper shifts understandings of learning from the individual to the collective, centering community as a framework for reimagining education to advance equity. This paper explores the…
Descriptors: Community Education, Film Production, Collectivism, After School Programs
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McGrew, Chris N.; Miller, Christle; Conant, John L.; Huber, Sandy – Journal of International Social Studies, 2019
The authors argue that the narrowing of the K-12 curriculum in the past twenty years has changed the relationship between K-12 schoolteachers and the community. Using an ecological perspective as the theoretical lens, the article describes these changes as well as an effort by an economic development organization in Indiana to help rebuild those…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Economic Development, Economics Education, Community Education
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Guajardo, Francisco; Guajardo, Miguel; Oliver, John; Keawe, Lia O'Neill M. A. – Journal of the Association of Mexican American Educators, 2012
This article uses story as a process to highlight the work in a South Texas community that focuses on the education of youth and the development of community. The work is guided by a new consciousness of place, community engagement, and identity formation. The work is local, but breaking the isolation of youth, families, and ideas has been part of…
Descriptors: Limited English Speaking, Praxis, Youth Opportunities, Youth Programs