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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
Cornett, Bob – Kettering Foundation, 2015
Bob Cornett, a former state budget director for Kentucky, describes himself as a "retired bureaucrat." But as a parent, grandparent, and a person who has been involved in education reform for more than 20 years, he's come to understand that, if public education policies are to be corrected, the impetus has to come from the citizenry. In…
Descriptors: Public Education, Educational Change, Educational Policy, Community Involvement
Wood, Jason – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2012
Education for active citizenship has been a key development in social policy over the past two decades, leading to a number of initiatives that have sought to strengthen political, social and moral literacy. This paper briefly reviews the UK policy context by situating this within communitarian definitions of citizenship. Despite the growth of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Citizen Participation, Citizenship Education, Educational Policy
Crawford, Paul T. – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2012
Education involves socialization so that individuals become productive members of society. At present, in the United States, educational transitions are primarily viewed in terms of their location in an outcomes-oriented process and framed as helping people achieve the American Dream, but in terms of the status quo national economic interest. But…
Descriptors: Role of Education, Success, Democratic Values, Socialization
Walker, Judith – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2008
This paper examines a recent government initiative aimed at raising adult literacy levels across the Canadian province of British Columbia by 2010. Through analysis of policy documents and interviews conducted with policymakers, analysts, researchers and practitioners, the author argues that the current focus on adult literacy in British Columbia…
Descriptors: Community Development, Lifelong Learning, Foreign Countries, Adult Literacy
Bailey, Natasha; Breen, Jessica; Ward, Mark – AONTAS The National Adult Learning Organisation, 2010
In 2009 AONTAS commissioned a piece of research to examine the outcomes and impact of community education in relation to the three aims that the Government has defined for it: enhancing learning; fostering empowerment, and contributing to civic society. In part, the research also responds to a need to measure the wider benefits of learning (such…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Community Education, Adult Education, Models
Gittell, Marilyn – 1979
This paper proposes particular areas in which research is needed within the fields of community organization and community development. Proposals are based on field research and findings of a two year (1977-79) Community Citizen Organization Study. The report is organized according to the four major categories of analysis in this original…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Community Development, Community Involvement, Community Organizations
Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Education, 2006
In May 2002, Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Education (HMIE) published the first self-evaluation framework for community learning and development (CLD) in Scotland. HM Inspectors used "How Good is Our Community Learning and Development?" (HGIOCLD?) to conduct a programme of inspections of local areas within all 32 local authorities. A…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Students, Foreign Countries, Public Service
Thompson, Jane – 2002
This guide offers insight, advice, examples, and resources aimed at community education practitioners in the United Kingdom who want to establish sustainable community education and neighborhood renewal programs promoting active citizenship and social change. The following topics are discussed: (1) neighborhoods in crisis; (2) proposed government…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Programs, Check Lists
Thompson, Jane – 2001
The relationship between lifelong learning, active citizenship, and neighborhood renewal was explored in the context of the British government's declared intention to address the consequences of poverty through neighborhood renewal, encourage public participation in renewal, and make lifelong learning a central strategy for ensuring future…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Case Studies, Change Strategies