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Rita Axelroth Hodges – ProQuest LLC, 2024
A growing number of colleges and universities have come to recognize the role and responsibilities they have in the economic and social fabric of their surrounding communities and regions as anchor institutions. Yet, the conditions of urban communities surrounding even the most engaged universities--including under-resourced public schools,…
Descriptors: Urban Universities, Research Universities, School Community Relationship, Urban Problems
Buda, Sharon Liddell – ProQuest LLC, 2010
A study of a three-year environmental curriculum project is documented with attention to the process of co-constructing and implementing the curriculum while exposing the hidden potential for thoughtfully aligned learning communities to strengthen curriculum construction. The curriculum project is integrated across all disciplinary subjects and…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Integrated Curriculum, Community Development, Lifelong Learning
Jones, Lauren Ila – ProQuest LLC, 2009
In this dissertation, through semi-structured interviews with 36 female social movement participants and 3 male participants in El Salvador, Nicaragua, Bolivia, and Argentina, I ask, "How do women in Latin American social movements perceive the influence of theology on these movements' pedagogies?" I argue that through this work, the…
Descriptors: Community Development, International Education, Action Research, Females