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Cristian Meier; Casey Coombs; Amria Farnsworth; LaCee Jimenez; Heidi LeBlanc – Journal of Human Sciences & Extension, 2023
Implementing policy, system, and environmental (PSE) changes has several well-known challenges that have been documented in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Education's (SNAP-Ed) comprehensive approach to obesity prevention and reduction. The purpose of the current study was to explore the use of community engagement (CE) as a strategy to…
Descriptors: Barriers, Community Involvement, Community Programs, Federal Programs
Cecilia Azorín; Elena Hernández – School Leadership & Management, 2024
Networking is one of the essential strategies demanded by society today. In recent years, the use of vertical hierarchies in teaching has been relegated to the background, giving way to other forms of horizontal interaction ('netarchies'). This has increased the opportunities for professionals from different fields and territories to work together…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Foreign Countries, Leadership, Interdisciplinary Approach
Eric Batts – Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences, 2024
Family and consumer sciences (FCS) educators are often tasked with teaching financial literacy to high school students. Many states have adopted financial literacy as a high school graduation course requirement. However, the need for financial literacy does not end in high school. Many parents could benefit from additional financial literacy…
Descriptors: Rural Population, Family (Sociological Unit), Financial Literacy, Parents
Mary M. McConnaha; Joanne E. Marciano; Brittany M. Brewer; Lauren Elizabeth Reine Johnson – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2025
In the summer of 2020, amidst state-mandated social distancing and protests for racial justice, youth participating in an ongoing YPAR initiative sought to design and facilitate a book club for the residents of their subsidized housing community to increase community awareness of the Black Lives Matter movement. Through interviews, youth shared…
Descriptors: Books, Clubs, Community Involvement, Community Programs
Hart, Ariel R.; Dillard, Rebecca; Perkins, Molly M.; Vaughan, Camille P.; Kinlaw, Kathy; McKay, J. Lucas; Waldrop-Valverde, Drenna; Hagen, Kimberley; Wincek, Ron C.; Hackney, Madeleine E. – Educational Gerontology, 2017
The DREAMS Team research advocacy training program helps clinical faculty and health students introduce basic clinical research concepts to diverse older adults to galvanize their active involvement in the research process. Older adults are frequently underrepresented in clinical research, due to barriers to participation including distrust,…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Partnerships in Education, Advocacy, Community Education
Eilam, Efrat; Trop, Tamar – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2013
Increasingly, international and national statements are calling for the development of local sustainability scenarios within partnerships between schools and their communities. The present study addresses the question of reciprocity in such partnerships, by comparing the sustainability agendas underlying schools' educational programs to the…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Foreign Countries, Sustainable Development, Community Involvement
Thomson, Alastair – Adults Learning, 2011
Political leaders like to put forward guiding ideas or themes which pull their individual decisions into a broader narrative. For John Major it was Back to Basics, for Tony Blair it was the Third Way and for David Cameron it is the Big Society. While Mr. Blair relied on Lord Giddens to add intellectual weight to his idea, Mr. Cameron's legacy idea…
Descriptors: Back to Basics, Adult Educators, Adult Learning, Politics of Education
Hanemann, Ulrike, Ed. – UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, 2015
This compilation offers global examples of innovative and promising literacy and numeracy programmes that link the teaching and learning of literacy to sustainable development challenges such as health, social equality, economic empowerment and environmental sustainability. This publication is a timely contribution to the 2030 Agenda for…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Literacy, Numeracy, Lifelong Learning
Mfum-Mensah, Obed – Curriculum Inquiry, 2009
Complementary education programs have emerged as a useful tool for addressing the educational needs of marginalized communities in the developing world. The literature attributes the success of these complementary education programs to innovative school organization, curriculum development, and community participation. This article is based on a…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Needs, Community Involvement, Ethnography
Scull, Sue; Cuthill, Michael – Higher Education Research and Development, 2010
Despite ongoing equity initiatives, there is still a clear discrepancy in regards to access to higher education for potential students from socially disadvantaged backgrounds. This paper reports on an action research initiative that has developed a model of engaged outreach as an alternative approach to traditional university outreach. Engaged…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Action Research, Pilot Projects, Disadvantaged

Peebles, Robert W. – Phylon, 1970
Examines the mutual development of the East Harlem community and the Benjamin Franklin High School as a case study of the community school's historical development. (JM)
Descriptors: Administrators, Black Community, Community Development, Community Education
Rouse, Virginia J. – Educational and Industrial Television, 1975
A report on an active community access CATV channel served by VAC-7. (Author)
Descriptors: Cable Television, Community Education, Community Involvement, Community Programs
San Francisco Unified School District, CA. – 1970
This report focuses on the planning stages and first and second years of operation of the Community Education Planning Project (CEPP) of the Ocean View, Merced Heights, Ingleside (OMI) Community Association. Curricular and program changes in the planning period in the seven elementary schools of the area envisaged the development of these schools…
Descriptors: Community Education, Community Involvement, Community Programs, Curriculum Development
Baas, Alan M. – 1973
This review surveys documents and journal articles previously announced in RIE, ERIC's monthly abstract catalogs, dealing with the growth of community schools. The community school is perceived to be the vehicle for the larger concept of community education -- a philosophy of education and society that radically changes the role of the public…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Community Education, Community Involvement
Bivins, Danny; Cassity, Pratt – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2006
Citizen participation and community education are critical to encouraging attractive and sustainable growth. The Alliance for Quality Growth (AQG), housed at the University of Georgia, was formed to increase awareness and understanding of the wide variety of planning and growth management tools available, including the charrette, a proven…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Community Education, Community Development, Partnerships in Education