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Ramey, Linda – Online Submission, 2012
Community gardening provides many benefits for students like outdoor physical activity, an understanding of plant life cycles, food production and healthy eating (Blair, 2009; Whiren, 1995). Gardening also provides hands-on learning opportunities to draw parallels between what is needed for plants to grow and what students need to be healthy. When…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Physical Activities, Plants (Botany), Agricultural Production
Goodman, Rachael D.; West-Olatunji, Cirecie – Online Submission, 2007
The purpose of this paper is to present recommendations for conducting outreach in order to further the efforts in the counseling field towards social justice and advocacy. Informed by Freire's (2000) critical consciousness theory, examples of culturally centered counseling services are presented as outcomes of the experiences of participants.…
Descriptors: Outreach Programs, Counseling Services, Advocacy, Justice
Scott, Michelle T. – Online Submission, 2007
The purpose of this briefing paper is to conceptualize a social responsibility and public policy agenda for Montgomery College. The briefing paper provides (a) a well researched perspective to embed a College culture to actualize social responsibility and public policy as institutional practices; (b) examines some of the opportunities and…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Social Responsibility, Public Policy, School Culture