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Teaching "Community Engagement" in Engineering Education for International Development: Integration of an Interdisciplinary Social Work Curriculum
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Gilbert, Dorie J.; Held, Mary Lehman; Ellzey, Janet L.; Bailey, William T.; Young, Laurie B. – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2015
This article reviews the literature on challenges faced by engineering faculty in educating their students on community-engaged, sustainable technical solutions in developing countries. We review a number of approaches to increasing teaching modules on social and community components of international development education, from adding capstone…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Social Work, Interdisciplinary Approach, Teaching Methods
Language Renewal and Language Maintenance: A Practical Guide.
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Brandt, Elizabeth A.; Ayoungman, Vivian – Canadian Journal of Native Education, 1989
Reviews critical factors in successful language transmission and acquisition, factors responsible for language maintenance and renewal. Considers theoretical issues underlying communities' maintenance and renewal efforts and the reflection of those issues in practical goal-setting plans that outline desired plans that outline language maintenance…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Community Planning, Community Programs, Foreign Countries
Effective Strategies for School-Based Early Childhood Centers. The Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory Program Report.
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Jewett, Janet – 1992
Effective strategies for developing early childhood centers in public schools are discussed in this paper, which draws from a research-based literature search and intensive case studies of six Northwest sites. The sites represent a range of rural, suburban, and urban programs; large and small schools; and a variety of program features. The sites…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Change Strategies, Community Involvement, Curriculum Development
Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Project. Final Report: Innovations in Protective Services.
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Dennis-Small, Lucretia – 1986
This final report is a process evaluation of the Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Project describing the efforts to develop a statewide philosophy and an operational plan in Texas toward primary and secondary prevention of child abuse and neglect. Discussion focuses on the background and origin of the project, first and second year operations…
Descriptors: Administrators, Child Abuse, Child Neglect, Community Involvement
Vocational Education in Corrections: An Interpretation of Current Problems and Issues. National Study of Vocational Education in Corrections. Technical Report No. 1.
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Jones, Joan Simon – 1977
This review and synthesis of the literature on correctional vocational education includes historical documents, recent surveys and reports, journal articles, dissertations, and speeches and presentations which were located by computer-assisted and manual searches of these data bases: Abstracts of Instructional and Research Materials in Vocational…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Community Involvement, Community Programs, Correctional Education
Native Literacy Research Report.
Rodriguez, Carmen; Sawyer, Don – 1990
Concern that Canadian Native illiteracy was being ignored or addressed ineffectively prompted this report, which includes a literature review, findings from a survey in several Native communities, and an overview of innovative practices and illustrative programs. The survey, conducted with 56 potential literacy learners from 8 geographically and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, American Indian Languages, American Indians