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Achituv, Sigal; Hertzog, Esther – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2020
This paper is based on a study of daycare center managers participating in a project aimed at changing the communal approach in early childhood education (ECE) centers. The project was implemented by the ECE system of Israel's Association of Community Centers for ages birth to three, based on the Ecological Systems Theory (Bronfenbrenner, 1979).…
Descriptors: Child Care, Child Caregivers, Administrators, Early Childhood Education
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Sellick, Angelika; Bournot-Trites, Monique; Reeder, Ken; Scales, Andrew; Smith, Mark; Zappa-Hollman, Sandra – Canadian Journal of University Continuing Education, 2011
The study involved 14 volunteer facilitators, four UBC staff members, and the researcher as participant; the data collected were observation notes, questionnaires, results from focus groups, and interviews. The study revealed that the key strengths of the training workshop lay in its approach to training, its focus on confidence and capacity…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Focus Groups, Volunteer Training, School Community Relationship
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Abukari, Abdulai; Corner, Trevor – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2010
Purpose: Higher education is increasingly being scrutinised and discourse centred on its usefulness to stakeholders. In 1992, the University for Development Studies (UDS) was established in Northern Ghana with a mission to engage with local communities to develop the area. This paper aims to understand the quality perspective of the university…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Quality Control, Interviews, Foreign Countries
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Marthers, Paul – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2009
During her presidency (1988-2001), Claire Gaudiani reconnected Connecticut College with New London, the college's home city, whose citizens through grassroots fund raising and donations of land established the college in 1911. Through an emphasis on service-learning, community outreach, and an education not for oneself as well as economic…
Descriptors: Outreach Programs, Service Learning, School Community Programs, Community Development