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Jackson, Nancy Mann – Instructor, 2011
February is a natural time to teach students that love involves more than hearts and candy--it also means giving of oneself. According to Terri Kennamer, a third-grade teacher at West Elementary School in Vestavia Hills, Alabama, it is the responsibility of educators to help students recognize that they are citizens of the world. Children have…
Descriptors: Altruism, Intimacy, Cultural Differences, Problem Solving
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Kushman, John E.; Freeman, Beth K. – International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 1986
Explores statistical relationships between socioeconomic characteristics of elderly persons in a large region of California and their consciousness and knowledge of services available to them. Service knowledge is a prerequisite to utilization or informal referrals. Education, age, sex, rurality, and minority status were found to be associated…
Descriptors: Community Services, Older Adults, Outreach Programs, Perception
Ayala, Marta Stiefel, Ed.; And Others – 1984
This document includes the text of presentations given at the First Binational Conference on Libraries in California and Baja California, as well as minutes from four roundtables held at the conference. Following a prologue and a brief background on the conference, the following presentations are included: (1) "State Support for Public…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Community Services, Databases, Foreign Countries
Clark, Collin, Ed. – 1985
This document includes final summary reports from recent federally funded Library Services and Construction Act (LSCA) demonstration projects in California. While some projects reported at length and others provided the bare facts, reports are excerpted but published as received, without editing beyond a uniform first page. The Summary Report Form…
Descriptors: Community Services, Library Cooperation, Library Networks, Library Services
Clark, Collin, Ed. – 1986
This document includes final summary reports from 16 recent federally funded Library Services and Construction Act (LSCA) projects in California. This volume covers generally the period 1984-85, and reports are presented in six subject areas: programs for children, information and referral projects, institutional services, literacy, local history,…
Descriptors: Community Services, Federal Aid, Library Cooperation, Library Networks
Cohen, Arthur M. – 1975
The designer of a modern community college must concomitantly meet the needs of those who expect a college to fit their traditional perceptions of a suitable physical plan, and not repel the great numbers of nontraditional students the community college is expected to serve. Many community colleges have been built as an uneasy compromise between…
Descriptors: Campus Planning, College Buildings, Community Colleges, Community Role