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Melissa Redmond; Liz Woodside; Beth Martin – Journal of Experiential Education, 2024
Background: Like other professional training programs, social work pedagogy has long recognized the value of experiential learning for professional development. Despite social work's rich experiential learning literature involving field education, direct practice courses, and program evaluation, there is a dearth of literature examining how to…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Social Work, Professional Education, Class Size
Eupha Jeanne Daramola – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2024
This comparative case study examines two out-of-system education programs created by Black community organizers during the 2020-2021 school year. Applying a unique framework based on the Black radical imagination, I examine how the communities experienced these programs and the potential of the programs to shape advocacy and local policy reforms.…
Descriptors: Local Issues, Political Issues, Community Programs, Educational Change
Crew, Robert E., Jr. – PS: Political Science and Politics, 2011
During my 45 years as an academic, I have followed the admonition sometimes attributed to the legendary Jedi warrior Obi-Wan Kenobe that political scientists should "use [their] power for good and not for evil." In this spirit, I have devoted substantial portions of my career to public service by providing strategic advice and campaign management…
Descriptors: Political Science, Elections, Public Service, Political Issues
Patel, Fay; Lynch, Hayley – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2013
The notion of internationalization in higher education is understood as the recruitment of international students, marketing of academic programs and courses, and teaching English as a Second Language to student cohorts from Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Various models of internationalization (Knight, 2004, 2006; Leask, 2009; Pimpa, 2009;…
Descriptors: International Education, Global Approach, Higher Education, Learning Experience
Bowen, Sarah – Rural Sociology, 2010
Geographical indications (GIs) are place-based names that convey the geographical origin, as well as the cultural and historical identity, of agricultural products. GIs are unique, in that they provide a means of ensuring that control over production and sales of a product stays within a local area, but at the same time they make use of extralocal…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Agribusiness, Agricultural Production, Agriculture
Larsen, Soren C. – Journal of Rural Studies, 2008
Contemporary rural social movements bring diverse interest groups and stakeholders together at the local scale in the pursuit of common visions and goals, often against the backdrop of an external threat. The challenge for a movement's leaders is to negotiate and design a rural agenda that resonates with this complex constituency. One way to…
Descriptors: Activism, Foreign Countries, Community Colleges, Rural Population
Desmarais, Annette Aurelie – Journal of Rural Studies, 2008
This article assesses the social and political significance of the international farmers' movement, La Via Campesina by exploring how it has evolved since its inception in 1993. It explores the movement's accomplishments and the tensions that exist between international expansion and a commitment to represent the local interests of member…
Descriptors: Activism, Political Issues, Agriculture, Social Action
Mawhinney, Hanne B. – Educational Policy, 2010
Article comments on contributions to an issue of Educational Policy that focuses on glocal politics of education in multiple national and international arenas. Commentary offered considers the ways in which the set of articles in this issue of EP require readers to take scalar leaps across the semiotic landscape of the local into the global. The…
Descriptors: Politics of Education, Educational Policy, International Education, Global Approach

Fry, Donald L.; McCain, Thomas A. – Journalism Quarterly, 1983
Reveals that while the accessibility to information of influential members of a community was high and generally similar for all sources, certain types of information were more accessible through some sources than were others. (FL)
Descriptors: Community Leaders, Information Sources, Local Issues, Mass Media

Carrigan, Dennis P. – Public Libraries, 1992
Reports the comments of directors of 11 large urban public libraries regarding the external roles of library directors, i.e., local politics, constituency building, and fund raising. The libraries represented are Chicago, New York City, Queens Borough, Los Angeles, Dallas, Boston, Denver, Cleveland, St. Louis, Atlanta, and Philadelphia. (two…
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Fund Raising, Library Directors, Library Role
Gauvin, Lorraine D. – Quill and Scroll, 1979
Reports the results of a survey of high school newspaper advisers that revealed a lack of newspaper coverage of issues not directly related to the school; discusses four reasons cited for narrow coverage: lack of staff motivation, lack of time and skills, administrative censorship, and previous publication by the local newspaper. (GT)
Descriptors: Censorship, High Schools, Local Issues, News Reporting

Carter, Michael A. – Clearing House, 1995
Notes four strategies that will almost certainly result in losing a school bond election, then discusses four strategies that increase the probability of passage. (SR)
Descriptors: Bond Issues, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, Local Issues

Brants, Kees; Kok, Walther – Journal of Communication, 1978
Points out that, although Dutch broadcasting has traditionally been characterized by its independence from state interference and diversity of opinions, the broadcasting Act of 1967 that attempted to increase accessiblity has instead led to a decrease in diversity and a dependence on membership. Suggests possible policies of the new government.…
Descriptors: Broadcast Industry, Economic Factors, Foreign Countries, Government Role

Kastory, Richard C.; Harrington, Susan J. – Educational Research Quarterly, 1996
A poll of 1,933 voters in two counties that passed school bonds and two that did not examines voter perceptions toward school bonds. The factors linked to passage were that the number of students was growing, that most students would benefit, and that the dollar amount of the bond issue was reasonable. (SLD)
Descriptors: Attitudes, Bond Issues, Counties, Educational Finance
Fielder, Donald J. – American School Board Journal, 1995
Describes organizational and planning strategies used to convince voters in the Park City (Utah) School District to approve two bond referendums. Offers 10 suggestions for conducting a successful school-bond campaign. (LMI)
Descriptors: Bond Issues, Change Strategies, Educational Finance, Elections
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