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Heggart, Keith – Issues in Educational Research, 2015
Previous scholarship has outlined possible models of civics education but have neglected to provide frameworks for evaluation of the way such educative programs contribute to ongoing active citizenship amongst the participants. This paper explicates a framework that can be used to analyse how effectively programs are developing active citizenship…
Descriptors: Social Capital, Citizenship, Civics, Citizen Participation
Thomas, Melinda; Rowe, Fiona; Harris, Neil – Health Education, 2010
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to examine the factors that characterise effective school-community partnerships that support the sustainability of school health initiatives applied within a health-promoting schools approach. Design/methodology/approach: The study used an explanatory case study approach of five secondary schools…
Descriptors: Health Promotion, Interviews, Foreign Countries, School Personnel
Buys, Nicholas; Bursnall, Samantha – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2007
Many academics do not view community engagement as a priority in their work. Yet, in an increasingly competitive funding environment, there is evidence that many benefits arise from the creation of university-community partnerships. This paper describes a study that documents the experience of seven academics successfully establishing community…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, School Community Relationship, Community Benefits, Educational Benefits

Hindson, Paul – Australian Journal of Early Childhood, 1979
A professional health educator's viewpoint on planning the educational aspects of public health programs at the preschool level. (CM)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Guidelines, Health Education, Parent Participation
Delves, A. R.; Watts, John – Forum for the Discussion of New Trends in Education, 1979
This article notes the trend in Australia toward school-based decision making through school/community councils and describes the school evaluation conducted by the Council of the Huntingdale Technical School in Melbourne. (SJL)
Descriptors: Accountability, Advisory Committees, Evaluation Methods, Needs Assessment
Nelson, A. J. A. – 1972
This report to the Australian Commission on Advanced Education is intended as a basis for discussion by those who have the responsibility for making program and policy decisions in continuing education in Australia's colleges of advanced education. Though the idea that education is continuous with life is coming to be widely accepted…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Adult Education, Adult Programs, College Planning
Creating New Choices: A Violence Prevention Project for Schools in Australia. Innodata Monographs 9.
Sidey, Maree – 2001
This booklet describes Creating New Choices, a violence prevention project begun in Victoria, Australia, in 1994. It is designed to integrate violence prevention tools into the educational arena. The program is based on a critical examination of the whole school culture, with the goal of creating a socially just environment for all members of the…
Descriptors: Comprehensive School Health Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Health Promotion
Stokes, Helen; Holdsworth, Roger – 1998
This paper presents practical options for school development in relation to vocational education ranging from small and specific steps to larger whole school change. Chapter 1 describes the context. Chapter 2 highlights three interlocked imperatives to attain this objective: a comprehensive and well-structured educational program that deals…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Development, Curriculum Development, Educational Development

Crocombe, N. G. – Australian Journal of Adult Education, 1980
Community education is concerned with the development of the individual and the development of the community to improve the quality of life. Community colleges act as catalysts by coordinating citizen and agency participation and community resources to improve educational opportunities for all. (SK)
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Community Colleges, Community Education, Community Resources
Victoria Education Dept. (Australia). – 1977
Cooperation, sharing, and competence are the key ideas in the Victorian Country Education Project, a pilot project to be conducted in a limited number of rural areas in Australia in an effort to overcome problems peculiar to rural schools and communities and to search for new ways to provide those schools and communities with improved educational…
Descriptors: Community Resources, Community Schools, Cooperation, Elementary Secondary Education
Victoria Education Dept. (Australia). – 1978
The Victorian Country Education Project (CEP), a pilot project searching for new ways of bringing beneficial educational experiences to disadvantaged rural areas, successfully achieved its aims of establishing community-based programs involving varied groups and people in developing solutions to local educational problems. A central Planning…
Descriptors: Community Cooperation, Community Involvement, Community Resources, Educational Development
Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1957
The basic theme of this yearbook, "The Role of the Schools in the Improvement of Community Life," is open to a variety of interpretations. Many factors determine what role the schools will play in a particular country or area, and consequently, what part they may have in community improvement programs. Among the factors are the history…
Descriptors: Community Education, Instructional Materials, Foreign Countries, Educational Change
Cumming, Jim – 1997
Community-based learning (CBL) is a structured approach to learning and teaching that connects meaningful community experience with intellectual development, personal growth, and active citizenship. Enthusiasm for CBL is emerging in Australia and elsewhere because it is seen as the following: strategy for whole-school reform, especially in…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Community Education, Community Organizations, Computer Uses in Education
Falk, Ian – 2001
The model currently used to represent the impacts of Australia's technical and further education (TAFE) programs implies a one-way flow of impact from TAFE to student to community. It may be argued that TAFE could better serve its clients by developing a social capital-based, two-way, reciprocal dynamic of vocational education and training (VET)…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Community Development, Definitions, Economic Development
Shohet, Linda, Ed. – Literacy across the CurriculuMedia Focus, 2000
This volume presents articles and information to support and improve literacy practices in schools, the community, and the workplace. Selected article titles are as follows: "Reaching Learners Where They Are" (Linda Shohet); "The Learners' Wall: Experiences in the Health Care System"; "In-Sites: A Study in Workforce…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Annotated Bibliographies