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Wargo, Jon M.; Alvarado, Jasmine – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2020
For a pre-kindergarten (preK) class, designing a 3-D map of a newly constructed playground offered authentic opportunities to participate, deliberate, and solve an authentic problem. Responding to the compelling question--"How do we build community spaces that are welcoming to, representative of, and sustaining for all community…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Active Learning, Inquiry, Student Projects
Mallory, Bruce L.; Moore-Vissing, Quixada; Holt-Shannon, Michele – New England Journal of Higher Education, 2018
New Hampshire is a place of both traditions and contradictions. Though historically New Hampshire's demographics have been primarily white, the state is becoming increasingly diverse with respect to racial and ethnic identities. There are communities with significant wealth adjacent to towns with widespread poverty and devastating rates of…
Descriptors: Ethnic Diversity, Socioeconomic Status, Rural Urban Differences, Political Issues
Spies, Jerry – 1992
The diversity of values about sexuality among administrators, teachers, parents, and children creates serious challenge for public schools. This case study offers an insider's view of what happened in a community when conservative parent groups challenged a senior high health curriculum. In the "Laketown Public Schools," conflict erupted…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Citizen Participation, Community Involvement, Community Problems
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Whitmore, Kay R. – Councilor, 1989
Compares the problems faced in public education to those of U.S. industry during the past two decades. Points out that today's educational enterprise requires greater cooperation, communication, and commitment. Calls for the formation of a new partnership among education, business, and community. In place of separate reforms, advocates a new…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Community Involvement, Community Problems, Educational Change
White, Leigh Cree, Ed. – 1981
The 4-H/Community Resource Development workshop was designed to help people conducting Extension 4-H programs on sensitive and complex community issues improve their ability to create a better climate for discussion of alternatives and development of community projects. Topics of the presentations included the role of the 4-H administrator,…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Citizen Participation, Community Development, Community Involvement
Department of Regional Economic Expansion, Ottawa (Ontario). – 1983
Projects such as Education North, a pilot project for community involvement in education conducted by the Alberta government, can be successful in geographically and culturally isolated communities where social, cultural, and political conflicts affect education. Between 1979 and 1982, Education North operated local education societies in six…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, Canada Natives, Community Characteristics, Community Development
Weatherman, Richard – 1983
The experiences of the 3-year Minnesota Severely Handicapped Delivery System Project have led to a model which utilizes resources of regional systems as key elements of a differentiated system for educational service delivery to the handicapped in rural areas and involves state education agencies, statewide regional centers, local education units,…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Community Involvement, Community Problems, Community Resources