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Clark, Patricia, Ed.; Zygmunt, Eva, Ed.; Tancock, Susan, Ed.; Cipollone, Kristin, Ed. – Teachers College Press, 2021
Discover how and why community-engaged teacher preparation is a powerful and vital approach to address an educational system that is historically deficient, discriminatory, and decidedly inequitable. In this edited volume, the authors argue that past practice is inadequate and issue a mandate for a new approach to educator preparation.…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Teacher Education Programs, College School Cooperation, School Community Relationship
Sandmann, Lorilee R., Ed.; Jones, Diann O., Ed. – Stylus Publishing LLC, 2019
Community engagement has evolved as a respected field and now occupies a seat at the academic table. In the past, this work had often been relegated to the institutional fringes of higher education, its practitioners marginalized, and the work often portrayed as service, not scholarly. Today, higher education community engagement is a dynamic and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, School Community Relationship, Universities, Community Involvement
Hands, Catherine, Ed.; Hubbard, Lea, Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2011
The work of school, family and community partnerships is complex and messy and demands a thoughtful and deep investigation. Currently, parent and community involvement does not draw on school reform and educational change literature and conversely the school change literature often ignores the crucial role that communities play in educational…
Descriptors: School Districts, Community Involvement, School Community Relationship, Family School Relationship
Morrow, Lesley Mandel, Ed.; Woo, Deborah Gee, Ed. – 2001
As a result of the America Reads Challenge Act of 1997, numerous tutoring programs have been established to help ensure that every child reads independently by the end of third grade. This book describes exemplary America Reads programs across the country as well as other effective early literacy interventions, including Reading Recovery, the…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Early Intervention, Foreign Countries, Literacy
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Bangkok (Thailand). Asian Centre for Educational Innovation for Development. – 1982
Volume 3 of a five-volume portfolio of studies reflecting different facets of the concept of education for rural development contains three studies on health and nutrition. The first study, "Health Education in Rural Development," by K. D. Ariyadasa (Sri Lanka), discusses the role of education in the transmission of health and integrated…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Agency Cooperation, Change Agents, Community Education