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Healing and Empowering Veterans in a Botanic Garden
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Kreski, Barbara – Journal of Museum Education, 2016
Research supports the common understanding that spending enjoyable time in nature is one of the most reliable ways of reducing stress indicators such as heart rate and blood pressure. This article describes a pilot program in which the Chicago Botanic Garden leveraged nature's stress-reducing qualities to complement a program for veterans in…
Descriptors: Veterans, Recreational Facilities, Stress Management, Community Programs
From Innovation to Impact at Scale: Lessons Learned from a Cluster of Research-Community Partnerships
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Schindler, Holly S.; Fisher, Philip A.; Shonkoff, Jack P. – Child Development, 2017
This article presents a description of how an interdisciplinary network of academic researchers, community-based programs, parents, and state agencies have joined together to design, test, and scale a suite of innovative intervention strategies rooted in new knowledge about the biology of adversity. Through a process of cocreation, collective…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Educational Researchers, Educational Innovation, Interdisciplinary Approach
Everybody Eats: Using Hunger Banquets to Teach about Issues of Global Hunger and Inequality
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Harris, Deborah A.; Harris, Whitney M.; Fondren, Kristi M. – Teaching Sociology, 2015
Experiential and active learning exercises can benefit students in sociology courses, particularly, courses in which issues of inequality are central. In this paper, we describe using hunger banquets-an active learning exercise where participants are randomly stratified into three global classes and receive food based upon their class position-to…
Descriptors: Hunger, Teaching Methods, Sociology, Social Bias
Before You Open the Doors: Ten Lessons from Florida's Faith and Community-Based Delinquency Treatment Initiative
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Lane, Jodi; Lanza-Kaduce, Lonn – Evaluation Review, 2007
In 2003, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) provided Florida's Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) with a $3.5 million grant to design and implement a faith- and community-based program for incarcerated juveniles. Florida's experience developing a completely new program has provided valuable lessons regarding…
Descriptors: Juvenile Justice, Delinquency Prevention, Pilot Projects, Background
L'Arche from a Participant Observer's Perspective: The Creation of Universal Community.
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Sumarah, John – International Journal of Special Education, 1988
A participant observer describes activities taking place at a L'Arche community, where persons with mental handicaps live and work together with nonhandicapped members of society. Findings are reported concerning work, social life, meetings, and other events, emphasizing the sense of community created through welcoming people and sharing…
Descriptors: Community Coordination, Community Development, Community Programs, Group Homes
Embedding Seeds for Better Learning: Sneaking up on Education in a Youth Gardening Program
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Rahm, Jrène; Grimes, Kenneth – Afterschool Matters, 2005
This article offers a description of an innovative youth program that embeds learning in a practical setting: a gardening program in which youth plant, harvest, and market their own produce. As an outgrowth of the gardening project, participants also interviewed scientists about their jobs in a way that underscored the practical use of science…
Descriptors: Gardening, Youth Programs, Experiential Learning, Interviews