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Shannon Thacker Cregg; Dana Carlisle Kletchka – Art Education, 2024
The authors explored how art centers for people with disabilities -- a form of day program -- could collaborate with art museums to create inclusive and integrated programming with artists from the broader community. Museums are in a particularly salient period of a paradigm shift, becoming more socially responsive and considering audience…
Descriptors: Community Based Instruction (Disabilities), Adults, Museums, Community Centers
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Voithofer, Rick; Winterwood, Fawn – Urban Education, 2010
This study uses articulation theory to frame how social actors and institutions in an urban community in Columbus, Ohio, form linkages and understandings about computer and information literacies. Using interviews with 33 key educators (e.g., principals, computer literacy teachers, library media specialists, district integration specialists),…
Descriptors: Public Libraries, Media Specialists, Information Literacy, Community Centers
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CEFP Journal, 1981
Describes a community planning laboratory process held to resolve the issue of reuse of excess school facilities. (Author/MLF)
Descriptors: Building Conversion, Citizen Participation, Community Centers, Community Involvement
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McKee, Heidi; Blair, Kristine – Community Literacy Journal, 2006
In this article, we begin by briefly reviewing some of the national statistics on older adults and computer usage, statistics that led each of us to volunteer as teachers to develop technological literacy programs for older adults at local community centers. Because we recognize that all literacies are developed and used by specific people in…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Computers, Community Centers, Literacy
Johnston, Robert C. – Education Week, 2005
During a volunteer stint on a hydroelectric-power project in the mountains of Honduras in 1996, William DeJong began "the walk." As the president of DeJong Inc., one of the top school facility planners in the United States, he wanted to study the conditions of schools in the rugged Central American countryside far from his home in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Latin Americans, Educational Facilities, Academic Standards
Coats, Betty Ann Hanna – 1976
This report describes a one-year feasibility study to design a functional child development model for infant day care in Hamilton County, Ohio. Mothers of babies under 18 months were interviewed by telephone to determine use of and interest in infant day care. Assessment was made of existing resources for full time day care in the county…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Community Centers, Community Surveys, Day Care
Cummings, Milton C.; Allen, Muriel M.; Hess, Karl – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1961
The Office of Education is requested frequently to supply information about education and community organization for aging. This publication adds to the literature in the growing field of professional and community concern. The publication may have its major use as a handbook for community and school leaders who wish specific information about…
Descriptors: Educational History, Older Adults, Lifelong Learning, Adult Education