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Keyes, Marian C., Kusimo, Patricia S. – AEL, 2004
This document describes a dialogue process that took place in Charleston, West Virginia, between and among district and school-level administrators, who are predominantly European American and African American community leaders. AEL, a federally funded regional educational laboratory, and the Kanawha County School District (where Charleston is…
Descriptors: African American Community, Community Leaders, Academic Achievement, African American Students
Society for Participatory Research in Asia, New Delhi (India). – 1982
Participatory research is an approach that calls for a democratic interaction between the researcher and those among whom the research is conducted. While this approach has been implemented with both individuals and groups in a wide variety of settings such as geographic communities, workplace situations, adult learning groups, community issue…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Case Studies, Data Collection, Definitions
Oliver, Leonard P.; Feldmann, Ann, Ed. – 1983
This study examines past and present public issue forums and their role in the United States political system. The first chapter describes traditional forms of the public forum such as town meetings, neighborhood societies, lyceums, university extension programs, and settlement house networks. Analyzed next are the content, organization, and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Citizen Participation, Citizenship, Citizenship Education
Pittman, Karen, Ed.; Irby, Merita, Ed.; Adams-Taylor, Sharon, Ed. – American Association of School Administrators, 2008
The American Association of School Administrators (AASA) invited the 2007 state winners to gather in Denver, Colorado, for three days of intensive dialogue about the challenges facing today's superintendents. As a result of the panels and small group discussions that followed, superintendents identified and detailed in this paper five avenues for…
Descriptors: Superintendents, Recognition (Achievement), Change Agents, Change Strategies