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Thongdee, Vitthaya; Promgun, Suraphon; Sawadtha, Suthipong; Namsithan, Somkhoun; Thubphumee, Phanthiwa; Ruangsan, Niraj – Online Submission, 2022
This research studied the contextual conditions of Khon Kaen Urban Community for developing the community learning center (CLC) as a part of smart city development. It also aimed to develop 'Bue Ban' CLC model based on the public participation and digital advancement. This study was carried out employing the qualitative and operational research…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Community Centers, Community Education, Community Programs
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Abbie Cairns – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2025
This paper explores the pivotal role of arts-based adult community learning (ACL) in the UK, highlighting ACL's broader impacts on well-being, including social, emotional, and mental health, and belonging for diverse groups of adult learners. ACL has a social role at individual and group levels; future research might tackle the latter potential in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Education, Art Education, Community Education
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Sally Robinson; Jan Idle; Karen R. Fisher; Kathleen Reedy; Christy Newman; Christiane Purcal; Gianfranco Giuntoli; Sarah Byrne; Ruby Nankivell; Gavin Burner; Rebeka Touzeau; Tim Adam; Paige Armstrong – British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2024
Background: Negative attitudes remain a major barrier to the equality of people with disability, especially when coupled with the lack of autonomy imposed on many people. This paper analyses how disability self-advocacy groups seek to change community attitudes and work towards systemic change by mobilising knowledge from their lived experience.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, National Organizations, Attitudes toward Disabilities, Peer Teaching
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Licen, Nives; Šindic, Aleksandra; Vodopivec, Jurka Lepicnik; Rosulnik, Klara Kožar – Open Journal for Educational Research, 2021
The article outlines the emergent cooperation between generations in the local environment. The aim of the research was to identify the key characteristics of learning ecologies that may be used to promote new practices. The theoretical framework was constructed through the concepts of learning ecology, community education, and postformal…
Descriptors: Intergenerational Programs, Sustainable Development, Environmental Education, Community Development
Education Scotland, 2020
HM Inspectors evaluate and report on the quality of community learning and development (CLD) in line with "The Requirements for Community Learning and Development (Scotland) Regulations 2013: Guidance for Local Authorities." The guidance refers to the legislative and policy areas for local authorities that impact on the planning and…
Descriptors: Community Education, Community Development, Guidance, Municipalities
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Koranyi, Franz; Kolleck, Nina – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2018
This article explores perceptions of local philanthropic foundations situated in community-based initiative (CBI) policies that aim to achieve educational goals through the establishment of collaborative connections between schools and multiple local actors. Although roles of philanthropy in public education are controversial, scholars have yet to…
Descriptors: Criticism, Private Financial Support, Public Education, Administrator Attitudes
Education Scotland, 2021
This report explores the impact of schools and other settings working with families to improve learning and achievement. It identifies the key features of highly-effective practice in engaging families in learning and provides examples of quality family learning which are helping to secure better outcomes for children and young people. The case…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Family School Relationship, Family Involvement, Student Improvement
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Zivkovic, Sharon – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2019
While active citizenship education programs are assumed to have positive benefits for the active citizenship practice of participants (UNESCO, 2009, p. 4), there is actually little evidence that programs do (de Weerd, Gemmeke, Rigter & van Riji, 2005, p. vii). This paper discusses a research project that aimed to determine and increase the…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Sustainable Development, Program Effectiveness, Power Structure
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Gombe, Sani Yakubu; Bin Suandi, Turiman; Ismail, Ismi Arif; Omar, Zohara – Journal of Education and Practice, 2016
Research in extension education is a serious and challenging task facing Nigeria today because of new trends that keeps on emerging continuously. This paper seeks to examine some of the common research techniques used in extension education and describe their applicability and workability in helping people to help themselves. Most of the…
Descriptors: Extension Education, Research, Foreign Countries, Action Research
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Quillinan, Bernie; MacPhail, Ann; Dempsey, Ciara; McEvoy, Eileen – Journal of Transformative Education, 2019
The Community Wellness, Empowerment, Leadership and Lifeskills (CWell) program is a 2-year community-driven program developed in partnership between an underserved community in Limerick City and staff at the University of Limerick, Ireland. This article explores the transformative teaching and learning experiences that arose throughout the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Transformative Learning, College Faculty, College Students
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Datta, Ranjan – Cogent Education, 2016
Community garden activities can play a significant role in bridging formal and informal learning, particularly in urban children's science and environmental education. It promotes relational methods of learning, discussing, and practicing that will integrate food security, social interactions, community development, environmental activism, and…
Descriptors: Gardening, Informal Education, Ethnography, Power Structure
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Wood, Lesley; McAteer, Mary – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2017
When academics, who occupy a traditional position of power and privilege, engage with community members whose thinking, attitudes, and responses have been shaped by ongoing sociohistorical oppression and disadvantage, democratic participation is not easy to attain. Yet, unless community members feel able to participate freely, the valuable local…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Participatory Research, Action Research, Parent Education
Fitzsimons, Camilla; Dorman, Peter – Adult Learner: The Irish Journal of Adult and Community Education, 2013
Drawing from extensive experience as community educators, this paper discusses accreditation and its relationship to community development as informed by a cooperative inquiry conducted by tutors. Beginning with our rationale for undertaking the inquiry, it details our approach to community development and the centrality of education within this.…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Social Change, Community Education, Community Development
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Sofo, Francesco – Education & Training, 2011
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to review the focus and practice of Adult and Community Education (ACE) as well as its conceptualization and delivery and to suggest parameters for an approach based on excellence, a balanced scorecard and performance to meet community needs. Design/methodology/approach: The review examines key aspects of the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Community Needs, Community Education, Postsecondary Education
Fitzsimons, Camilla – Adult Learner: The Irish Journal of Adult and Community Education, 2010
This article adopts a radical lens and examines the relationship between community development, adult education and professionalism. It draws from research on one specific community- university partnership and presents the professionalisation of community work as detrimental to radical practice because of its encouragement of individual vertical…
Descriptors: Community Development, Adult Education, Professional Recognition, School Community Relationship
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