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Download full textRabkin, Nick – James Irvine Foundation, 2017
The arts have played powerful utilitarian roles for individuals and for the societies in which they live for millennia. For the last 250 years, though, "art for art's sake" -- the notion that commercial, utilitarian, moral, or didactic functions are distractions from art's ineffable, intrinsic value as an expression of the artists'…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Correlation, Motivation, Art Activities
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Direct linkJackson, Susan – Studies in the Education of Adults, 2012
This article will explore lifelong learning and community participation for older women. In doing so, it will draw on empirical work undertaken with the National Federation of Women's Institutes in England and Wales in the UK; and the Sydney Older Women's Network in Australia. The article will briefly outline something of the policies and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Lifelong Learning, Community Involvement, Females
Aikman, Sheila; Rao, Nitya – Theory and Research in Education, 2012
The article draws on qualitative educational research across a diversity of low-income countries to examine the gendered inequalities in education as complex, multi-faceted and situated rather than a series of barriers to be overcome through linear input-output processes focused on isolated dimensions of quality. It argues that frameworks for…
Descriptors: Females, Educational Quality, Community Involvement, Teacher Supply and Demand
Saginaw Public Schools, MI. Dept. of Evaluation Services. – 1989
This report presents results of the first product evaluation of the Saginaw School District's Michigan Early Childhood Education Preschool (MECEP) program. The MECEP operated at five elementary sites, with 154 pupils participating. The goal of the program was to provide 4-year-olds with an environment that would enable them to develop school…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Individual Development, Parent Participation, Preschool Curriculum
Wagner, Tony – Phi Delta Kappan, 1995
America is too diverse and teachers, parents, and community members are too skeptical to buy a one-size-fits-all curriculum. Four goals should drive reform: education for a changing economy, for continuing learning, for citizenship, and for personal growth and health. Governments, colleges, businesses, and the media have important supportive…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Citizenship Education, Community Involvement, Democratic Values
Kerr, Sam W. – 1978
To help bridge the gap between school and employment, the Moore-Norman Area Vocational-Technical School District (Oklahoma) developed an experience-based career education (EBCE) program for high school juniors and seniors and out-of-school youth between sixteen and twenty-one years. Project objectives included the following: (1) to serve 150 youth…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Education, Career Exploration, Community Involvement
