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Mitchell Friedman – International Journal of Work-Integrated Learning, 2023
Among the challenges faced by work-integrated learning (WIL) educators, recruiting, selecting, and retaining outside organizations as 'clients' or 'community partners' to work with students looms large. The gap between classroom needs and professional practice often leads to a tangle of unrealistic expectations. These challenges grow even more…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Public Relations, College Faculty, School Community Programs
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Mercer, Lorraine; Carter, Lorraine – Journal of Professional, Continuing, and Online Education, 2018
Student diversity in Canadian universities is rapidly increasing, and faculty and curriculum developers are challenged to transform programs and pedagogies to meet the learning needs of diverse students. While universities across Canada are actively attending to the need for interculturality and diversity in undergraduate education, this same need…
Descriptors: Intercultural Programs, Leadership Training, Theory Practice Relationship, Student Diversity
Loewen, Jerry – 1996
This paper examines the definition and practice of intergenerational learning programs, and attempts to determine the characteristics of successful and meaningful programs of this type. The first section defines intergenerational learning and states its purpose: to bring young and old together for the purpose of learning from one another, under…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Age Groups, Apprenticeships, Children
Owens, Tom – 1981
Research on the effectiveness of career exploration as viewed by 1100 senior high school students involved in Experience-Based Career Education (EBCE) projects in 16 states is reviewed. Results suggest that the learning potential of community experience can be improved in the following six ways: (1) offering challenging work; (2) selecting…
Descriptors: Career Exploration, Experiential Learning, High Schools, Literature Reviews
Windham, Patricia W. – 2001
This paper discusses three forms of community connections: service learning, partnerships, and public service, and offers an overview of the current service-learning movement in community colleges. It argues that, in order for community colleges to fulfill their missions, they must embrace the full implication of the having "community" in their…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Community Colleges, Community Services, Experiential Learning
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Bucknam, Ronald B.; Brand, Sheara G. – Educational Leadership, 1983
THE FOLLOWING IS THE FULL TEXT OF THIS DOCUMENT A meta-analysis of 80 third-party evaluations (all that were conducted) of Experience-Based Career Education programs shows that in the large majority of programs: (1) EBCE students made large gains not only in career skills and life attitudes but also in academic skills; (2) EBCE students gained…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Career Education, Experiential Learning, Field Experience Programs
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Westling, David L.; Floyd, Jane – Journal of Special Education, 1990
This paper reviews 27 studies that taught community skills to persons with moderate to severe mental handicaps and tested the generalization of these skills. The review, which analyzed the degree of generalization that occurred and the effect of different strategies used, concludes that the general case method is the most effective strategy.…
Descriptors: Adults, Community Programs, Daily Living Skills, Experiential Learning
Csapo, Marg – 1991
This book chapter puts community-based rehabilitation and community-based instruction in an historical perspective by describing a number of influential social, political, legal, technological, and philosophical factors that have shaped contemporary special and regular education. The characteristics of community-based instruction, community-based…
Descriptors: Community Based Instruction (Disabilities), Community Programs, Curriculum, Disabilities
Hamilton, Stephen F. – 1980
Unpaid community activities have been widely recommended as learning experiences for adolescents. An evaluation was conducted of two community action learning programs, one which placed adolescents one-to-one in adult-dominated settings and the other which gave adolescents a group project to plan and carry out with adult assistance. Both programs…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Experiential Learning, Field Experience Programs
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Gallagher, James J.; Hogan, Kathleen – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2000
Contends that science education researchers should devote more time to creating and studying models of intergenerational and community-based science education. Argues that such inquiries have the potential to provoke new thinking that could expand basic conceptions of what it means to learn and practice science. (WRM)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Environmental Education, Experiential Learning