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Direct linkKathleen Bolter, Contributor; Tim Bartik, Contributor; Brad Hershbein, Contributor; Michelle Miller-Adams, Contributor; Lee Adams, Contributor; Brian Asquith, Contributor; Alfonso Hernandez, Contributor; Kyle Huisman, Contributor; Iryna V. Lendel, Contributor; Gabrielle Pepin, Contributor; Bridget Timmeney, Contributor; Beth Truesdale, Contributor; Yulya Truskinovsky, Contributor – W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2024
The Policies for Place initiative at the Upjohn Institute brings together experts from around the country to study community-based strategies to create good jobs--and how to help people get and keep those good jobs. This initiative represents a unique approach to helping people in distressed places: (1) focus on good jobs because research shows…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Place Based Education, Job Development, Employment Opportunities
Peer reviewedWendy Griswold; Meera Patel; Edith Gnanadass – Adult Learning, 2024
Environmental injustice is often an intersection of economic, social, and environmental disparities. Addressing the inequities borne by communities overburdened with such disparities requires local learning opportunities. Exploring how and what participants learn during community education projects can help inform and improve practice, which was…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Volunteers, Adults, Pollution
Download full textKhomkrit Bunkhiao; Jidapa Koomklang; Wee Rawang; Seree Woraphong – Journal of Education and Learning, 2024
The objective of this research is twofold: firstly, to examine the level of local food security and the community members' understanding of environmental education; and secondly, to develop a model that enhances local food security by implementing the environmental education practices of the community residents. Utilized mixed-methods research.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Food, Hunger, Regional Characteristics
Taiji Nelson; Carissa Haug; Claudia McLaughlin Ludwig; Isabel Carrera Zamanillo; Luke Matlack; Kelsie Fowler – Connected Science Learning, 2024
Partnerships between K-12 educators and people doing climate work in their communities provides opportunities for teachers and students to engage in consequential climate learning that is both culturally situated and locally relevant. This article features several vignettes that highlight examples from various sites across Washington State where…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Climate, Partnerships in Education, Environmental Education
Mildenhall, Paula; Cowie, Bronwen – Teachers and Curriculum, 2021
By engaging students in everyday issues and events, STEM education can contribute to the development of citizens who are equipped to make the world a better place. However, students' STEM learning with this focus requires teachers to identify age and context appropriate issues. Student investigation of local issues and events can be motivating for…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Community Involvement, School Community Relationship, Learner Engagement
Jallad, Mayssa; Mintchev, Nikolay; Pietrostefani, Elisabetta; Daher, Mariam; Moore, Henrietta L. – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2022
This article argues for a citizen social science methodology in which residents from the sites of inquiry play a central role in key activities of the research process and beyond: research design and data collection, presentation and publication of findings, and design and implementation of urban interventions that address challenges to quality of…
Descriptors: Social Science Research, Foreign Countries, Inquiry, Active Learning
Juharyanto, Juharyanto; Sultoni, Sultoni; Arifin, Imron; Bafadal, Ibrahim; Nurabadi, Ahmad; Hardika, Hardika – SAGE Open, 2020
This study aimed at finding an effective leadership strategy carried out by one-roof school principals in remote areas. This study was conducted qualitatively with a multi-site approach. The data were obtained from the school principals as key informants and focus group discussion (FGD) involving all school principals, Indonesian Institute of…
Descriptors: Principals, Leadership Effectiveness, Stakeholders, School Effectiveness
Çuhadar, Elif; Ünal, Fatma – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2018
In this study, while the definition of informal education, which displays the main features of lifelong learning, is made, it is also attempted to identify the contributions of the local newspapers, through which the society can reach its own unique and necessary information, to the lifelong learning of their readers. In the research, within this…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Newspapers, Local Issues, Informal Education
National Skills Coalition, 2021
The need to invest in our nation's crumbling infrastructure goes back decades. But today, with millions of people unemployed, there is unprecedented momentum to act. Women, immigrants, and people of color are disproportionately represented in these numbers as are young adults. President Joe Biden and Congress are counting on infrastructure…
Descriptors: Unemployment, Public Policy, Federal Legislation, Investment
LaDuca, Brian; Hayford, Michelle; Ausdenmoore, Adrienne; Yorke, Jerome; Hallinan, Kevin P.; Blust, Rebecca; Crecelius, Anne; Kubi, Phillip Appiah; Katz-Buonconintro, Jennifer; Bennett, Jana; Arnold, Jackie; Bowman, Connie; Sweet, Castel – Research in Higher Education Journal, 2019
As the interconnectedness of the world grows, the need to prepare college students capable of addressing complexity likewise grows. In this context, the University of Dayton has developed and tested a transdisciplinary model for education. This model links multiple classes from different disciplines via a common theme and within a common space. It…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Educational Innovation, Educational Cooperation, Drug Addiction
Lillo, Sarah R. – Journal of Research in International Education, 2019
The study described in this article highlights the complexity of service-learning efforts and community engagement pursuits. It is based on 6.5 months of qualitative fieldwork in International Baccalaureate international schools in Kenya, Ethiopia, and South Africa. The article unpacks the understandings and skills involved in service-learning…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Teaching Methods, Advanced Placement Programs, International Education
Marsh, Julie A. – Teachers College Record, 2016
Background: Scholars widely acknowledge that politics help explain why policies are adopted and how they play out in states, districts, and schools. To date, political analyses of education reform tend to isolate a particular policy and examine the politics of its adoption or implementation, but pay less attention to the effects of the politics of…
Descriptors: Public Schools, School Choice, Politics of Education, School Districts
Taylor, Jane; Appleton, Victoria – Adults Learning, 2011
The concept of Big Society provides inspiration--working "bottom up" to promote "collective action, reciprocity and a new, more engaged relationship between local people and public services". With so much written about the theory of the Big Society, this seems like an ideal time to put a little more practical detail into the mix. The authors argue…
Descriptors: Community Change, Community Development, Adult Learning, Public Service
Sharp, Margaret – Adults Learning, 2011
This article discusses the findings of the commission set up jointly by NIACE, the Association of Colleges (AoC) and the 157 Group to investigate the role of colleges in their communities. The commission learned that: (1) further education colleges are, often, already embedded in their communities; (2) although there has been some simplification,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Public Policy, Colleges, Higher Education
Flono, Fannie – Kettering Foundation, 2010
In 2007, the Kettering Foundation launched a nationwide, two-year research project to learn what people in communities across the nation think about the achievement gap--and what roles they see for themselves in helping young people succeed academically. The community forums, which drew more than 3,200 participants nationwide, spotlighted elements…
Descriptors: Low Income, Community Involvement, Academic Achievement, Achievement Gap
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