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Joy L. Hart; Andrea Radasanu; Timothy Nichols; Rebecca C. Bott-Knutson; Jonathan Kotinek – Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, 2024
Drawing inspiration from Dr. Ada Long's (1995) presidential address, the authors describe an experience that facilitates neighborhood-building among honors educators and students across the nation as well as a neighborhood approach to understanding social problems. Focusing on food justice in the first year of the Justice Challenge, honors…
Descriptors: Honors Curriculum, Higher Education, Community Development, Neighborhoods
Angela Marie Thatcher – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Emerging adults in rural, boom-bust economies face unique challenges, especially in employment and education. Drawing on emerging adult and social disruption hypothesis literatures, this study examined four primary research questions. First, how do emerging adults in rural boom-bust towns in southwest Wyoming understand and experience boom-bust…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Employment, Migration, Community Development
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Wang, Qianran – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2019
This article introduces Kominkan and its practice on Japanese social education and how it facilitates Japanese adult education and lifelong learning in local communities. Historically, social education was understood as all education that promotes social development and societal progress. Kominkan, as Japanese social education institutions for…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Adult Learning, Lifelong Learning, Self Determination
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Adekola, G.; Egbo, Nwoye Charles – Journal of Education and Practice, 2016
This study examined the influence of traditions and customs on community development in Nkanu West and Nkanu East Local Government Areas of Enugu State. The study was carried out with three objectives and three null hypotheses. The research adopted descriptive survey design with a population of 2,125 members of community Based Organizations in the…
Descriptors: Community Development, Traditionalism, Community Organizations, Community Surveys