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Juvy Lizette M. Gervacio; Brikena Xhomaqi – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2025
The Marrakech Framework for Action (MFA) recognizes the importance of nonformal and informal learning in lifelong learning. They provide more opportunities for learners because they are more inclusive and accessible. One of the strategies is the establishment of community learning centers that provide opportunities for various kinds of learners.…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Cultural Context, Inclusion, Community Involvement
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Dicindio, Carissa – Studies in Art Education: A Journal of Issues and Research in Art Education, 2023
This article examines how community art centers of the Federal Art Project (FAP) of the Works Progress Administration served as a third space, one that was explicitly designed to be different from art museums at that time. Created to employ artists during the Great Depression under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, goals of FAP programs included…
Descriptors: Art Education, Federal Programs, Art History, Community Centers
Hanemann, Ulrike, Ed. – UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, 2015
This compilation offers global examples of innovative and promising literacy and numeracy programmes that link the teaching and learning of literacy to sustainable development challenges such as health, social equality, economic empowerment and environmental sustainability. This publication is a timely contribution to the 2030 Agenda for…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Literacy, Numeracy, Lifelong Learning
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Lewis, Arnold – Community Development Journal, 1980
The author discusses ritual as a process of creating social frameworks through the mobilization of communal sentiment and purpose. He presents a case study in which the ritual process was applied by an external change agent to develop social partnerships and local support for the establishment of a community center. (SK)
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Community Centers, Community Development, Community Involvement
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Wise, Bill; Swensson, Earl S. – CEFP Journal, 1979
Describes a comprehensive high school that is a total educational community and recreational center designed and built around the planners' belief that the educational facilities of today and tomorrow must be flexible enough to meet the requirements of a variety of uses. (Author)
Descriptors: Community Centers, Community Involvement, Facility Guidelines, Flexible Facilities
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CEFP Journal, 1981
Describes a community planning laboratory process held to resolve the issue of reuse of excess school facilities. (Author/MLF)
Descriptors: Building Conversion, Citizen Participation, Community Centers, Community Involvement
Cruz, Hector M. – 1977
This paper describes some of the ways in which Hispanic elderly in East Harlem in New York City are advancing as a result of advocacy program involvement. Major problems and needs endemic to the Hispanic elderly in East Harlem are identified and some of the basic causes of these problems are discussed. The areas discussed include housing, health,…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Community Action, Community Centers, Community Involvement
Pybus, Dean S. – Small Town, 1995
Over 1,500 volunteers constructed a 10,000-square-foot playscape. The 5-day construction period was preceded by a year of planning and coordination by 10 volunteer committees, city officials, and the architectural firm. Organization and public relations kept the interest level high, resulting in increased community pride, spirit, and involvement.…
Descriptors: Children, Community Centers, Community Cooperation, Community Involvement
DePaul, Samuel A.; Ganster, Kathleen – American School Board Journal, 2001
Influencing and mentoring underachieving students is one mission of the Ambridge Area Community Learning Center in Beaver County, Pennsylvania. Operating with a 3-year, $90,000 grant from Pittsburgh's Grable Foundation, the "lifelong" learning center offers classes, workshops, and services to all ages. (MLH)
Descriptors: After School Programs, Community Centers, Community Involvement, Elementary Secondary Education
Schoolhouse of Quality, 1998
Discusses how newly built schools are becoming community activity centers with input from the community. Gives several examples of how communities were involved in the school planning and redesign process that also created room for community use of the school. (GR)
Descriptors: Community Centers, Community Involvement, Educational Facilities Design, Educational Facilities Planning
Peck, Wayne Campbell; And Others – 1994
Defining "community literacy" as literate acts that could yoke community action with intercultural education, strategic thinking and problem solving, and with observation-based research and theory building, this paper articulates this "generative and tension-filled" vision of community literacy. The paper begins by examining…
Descriptors: Community Action, Community Centers, Community Education, Community Involvement
Burr, Julie; Willis, Don – 1979
A project was undertaken jointly by the Seattle Public Library and Seattle University's Community Resource Center to establish a method of making pertinent information available to community group members. Activities of the Community Resource Center were to: (1) coordinate a computerized directory of community groups, (2) publish a newsletter, (3)…
Descriptors: Community Centers, Community Information Services, Community Involvement, Community Programs
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Eriksen, Aase – CEFP Journal, 1979
The Central Park Project, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, illustrates the importance of participation in the design process and the impact of school sites on children as well as on the surrounding neighborhood. (Author/MLF)
Descriptors: Building Conversion, Community Centers, Community Involvement, Design Requirements
Robison, Rita – American School and University, 1981
The active involvement of students and the community in planning a school site in Grand Rapids (Michigan) overcame initial opposition and resulted in the creation of a community center/park. (MLF)
Descriptors: Community Centers, Community Involvement, Educational Facilities Planning, Elementary Secondary Education
Watson, J. K. P. – 1980
Maintaining that there is considerable confusion over the term "community education," this paper begins by offering a number of definitions. It then seeks to unravel some of the complexities of community education as it exists in the United Kingdom; to explain the growth of interest; to examine the underlying principles and different…
Descriptors: Community Centers, Community Development, Community Education, Community Involvement
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