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Ana Antunes, Editor; Joy Howard, Editor – Myers Education Press, 2024
In "All In: Community Engaged Scholarship for Social Change," authors at various stages of their academic and professional careers, and in very different geographical contexts and community settings, provide unique examples of public scholarship for social justice. Readers will learn about activities promoting equity in a variety of…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Social Change, Scholarship, Learning Activities
Leena Bakshi McLean – Jossey-Bass, An Imprint of Wiley, 2024
Containing all of the practical tools needed to put theory into practice, "STEM for All" by Leena Bakshi McLean provides a roadmap for teachers, instructional coaches, and leaders to better understand the challenges that create low engagement and scores in STEM subjects and implement exciting and culturally relevant teaching plans. This…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Culturally Relevant Education, Classroom Environment, Sense of Belonging
Soto, Lourdes Diaz – 1997
This book presents a case study of a Puerto Rican community in an industrial city, exposing conflicts surrounding the education of language and ethnic minority children and the resistance of many "Anglos" toward parents and community as sources of knowledge. Over 9 years, data were collected from bilingual families living in Steel Town,…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Bilingual Students, Community Involvement, Elementary Secondary Education
Long, Huey B., Ed.; And Others – 1973
Six approaches to community development are presented by several authors in this booklet. Chapter 1 presents an introduction to the community development concept. In chapter 2, L. J. Cary emphasizes three distinctive features of the community approach: (1) popular or broad-based participation, (2) community as an important concept, and (3) the…
Descriptors: Community, Community Development, Community Education, Community Involvement
Burbach, Harold J., Ed.; Decker, Larry E., Ed. – 1977
Identifying the genuine needs of a community and developing a sound program to respond to those needs represent the primary mission of the community educator. The success of program planning efforts will depend largely on how solid the analysis of the community is. This collection of papers deals with the question of how community analysis is…
Descriptors: Community Education, Community Involvement, Community Relations, Community Schools
Tait, John L.; And Others – 1975
This paper focuses on defining and comparing four approaches for identifying the community's power actors. It outlines how professional change agents might use each of the four approaches to identify community power actors who are relevant for community development. The four approaches include the positional, the reputational, the decision-making,…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Change Strategies, Community Change, Community Development
Allen, Dwight W. – 1992
This book advances a program for national educational reform by arguing that the nation already has a national curriculum by default, which is based on advance placement examinations, textbook publishers, and college admissions requirements that must be replaced by national goals that preserve local control through national coordination of…
Descriptors: Accountability, Community Involvement, Curriculum Development, Educational Change