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Patterson-Price, Juanita; Pass, Andrea – Journal of Dance Education, 2023
During the course of a program evaluation for Footprints Dance Project Society of Alberta, we uncovered a discrepancy between children and parents regarding both motivation for program participation and expected outcomes. At Footprints Dance Project, we work with a diverse group of children, primarily from low socioeconomic backgrounds. Despite…
Descriptors: Motivation, Participation, Community Programs, Foreign Countries
Costes-Onishi, Pamela – International Journal of Music Education, 2019
The landscape in which music is experienced in the 21st century has dramatically changed and scholarship in music education calls for classrooms in which teaching and learning are responsive to the new challenges. Furthermore, within the broader concerns of the place of the arts in the curriculum, the literature calls for empirical evidences…
Descriptors: Music Education, Creative Thinking, Music Activities, Community Programs
Abuya, Benta; Muhia, Nelson – Journal of Educational Research and Practice, 2023
This paper explains sustained effects and what worked for students in the Advancing Learning Outcomes and Transformational (ALOT Change III) program. Data comes from qualitative narratives from the baseline survey of the program collected by the African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) between December 4, 2019, and January 31, 2020,…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Comparative Analysis, Community Programs, Transformative Learning
Newman, Tarkington J.; Anderson-Butcher, Dawn; Amorose, Anthony J. – Applied Developmental Science, 2020
Youth participation in sport is associated with positive developmental outcomes. The development of life skills is especially important for urban youth of color who are often underserved and face poor long-term outcomes. To service the needs of underserved youth, community youth sport programs have begun to utilize sport-based positive youth…
Descriptors: Athletics, Skill Development, Minority Group Children, Urban Areas
Truscott, Adriano – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2014
The role of linguists employed in Aboriginal community language centres requires three considerations to be addressed by the language centres themselves, by the linguists and by the organisations that prepare them: what is required of the linguist by language centres; to what extent does the linguist's own skills, interests and ideology match what…
Descriptors: Role, Researchers, Transfer of Training, Language Research

Bacon, Nora – Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 1999
Studied the Community Service Writing program at San Francisco State University to explore the relationship between the knowledge students acquired in school and the knowledge they needed when writing for community-based organizations. Results for 25 students suggest that service learning program developers should attend not only to the transfer…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, College Students, Community Programs, Higher Education
Splett, L. A. – 1983
The report summarizes findings and recommendations of a project designed to promote transfer of training in basic skills from school to community for mildly retarded secondary students. Project objectives (including learning to drive, read schedules, work with others, and shop for groceries) are listed along with brief discussions of staffing,…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Daily Living Skills, High Schools, Junior High Schools
Splett, L. A. – 1983
The evaluation determined the success of a program designed to effect high transfer of skills among educable mentally handicapped students in grades 7-10. The 3-year program employed a community worker to help promote practical application of skills to the community setting. Measurements of change in academic achievement and attitudes were…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Daily Living Skills, High Schools, Junior High Schools

Westling, David L.; Floyd, Jane – Journal of Special Education, 1990
This paper reviews 27 studies that taught community skills to persons with moderate to severe mental handicaps and tested the generalization of these skills. The review, which analyzed the degree of generalization that occurred and the effect of different strategies used, concludes that the general case method is the most effective strategy.…
Descriptors: Adults, Community Programs, Daily Living Skills, Experiential Learning
1979
Papers from numerous research areas in the adult education field are presented. The proceedings contain thirty-five papers, five symposia, one alternate symposium, and eighteen alternate papers. Among the papers included are "A Comparison of Approaches to Measuring Outcomes in Adult Basic Education,""A Critical Analysis of Hill's…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Learning, Adult Programs
Employment and Training Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1993
This compendium, which is intended as a resource for state and local policymakers and practitioners to use in addressing work force development issues in their states, describes successful projects based on various work force development strategies in the areas of collaboration, empowerment, and systematic change. Some of the models included were…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Programs, Cooperative Planning, Coordination