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Assessing Intercultural Competence as a Result of Internationalization at Home Efforts: A Case Study From the Nightingale Mentoring Program
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Prieto-Flores, Òscar; Feu, Jordi; Casademont, Xavier – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2016
In the last decades, many higher education institutions have developed practices of internationalization of curricula aiming at developing intercultural competences among the non-mobile majority of students. Some of them have developed service-learning activities focusing on working with underserved communities from different cultures. This…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Racial Bias, Mentors, Control Groups
Education and Social Innovation: The Youth Uncensored Project--A Case Study of Youth Participatory Research and Cultural Democracy in Action
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Conrad, Diane H. – Canadian Journal of Education, 2015
This article discusses social innovation in education informed by arts-based and Indigenous ways of knowing. I use the term Indigenous to refer to First Peoples' and their wisdom traditions from places around the world and the term Aboriginal to refer to the diverse First Nations, Métis, and Inuit peoples of Canada. The article looks at the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Canada Natives, Indigenous Knowledge, Indigenous Populations
Narratives of Community Garden Education: Bridging Social Capital, Ecoliteracy, and Civic Leadership
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Correa, Carly K. V. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Ample evidence suggests that environmental problems, and their impacts to present and future generations, require our utmost attention. Education within schools "and" communities play critical roles in shaping the perceptions and relationships people have to their natural and social environments. However, few studies have examined the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Leadership, Community Programs, Gardening
Youth Civic Engagement: Systems Change and Culture Change in Hampton, Virginia. CIRCLE Working Paper 31
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Sirianni, Carmen – Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE), University of Maryland, 2005
The burgeoning literature on youth civic engagement points to many different ways in which youth can contribute to the democratic life of communities, institutions, and the larger polity: voting, advocacy, service learning, community-university partnerships, and youth organizing, to name just a few. Hampton, however, represents a case where the…
Descriptors: Service Learning, City Government, Citizenship Responsibility, Citizen Participation
Community Service Learning as Pedagogy.
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Kinsley, Carol W. – Equity and Excellence in Education, 1993
The case study of community service learning (CSL) by an interdisciplinary team at a middle school in Springfield (Massachusetts) provides information about what happens when teachers integrate community services into the curriculum as an instructional strategy. Community theater management and environmental lobbying projects illustrate issues in…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Community Programs, Curriculum Development, Educational Change
Community Literacy Programs and the Politics of Change.
Grabill, Jeffrey T. – 2001
The community literacy program of Western District Adult Basic Education in Georgia was examined to demonstrate how the meaning and value of literacy is a function of specific local institutions. The goal of the examination was to theorize literacy by constructing a localized framework for understanding literacy within a given institution in order…
Descriptors: Action Research, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs