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Iyengar, Radhika – Prospects, 2021
COVID-19 has put education in a challenging place. With millions of children out of school, education needs to reinvent itself. During the pandemic, communities have used this opportunity to support children's education in various ways, including the launching of new online classes. This article takes the social capital theoretical model as its…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, COVID-19, Pandemics, Social Capital
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Wickersham, Carol; Westerberg, Charles; Jones, Karen; Cress, Margaret – Teaching Sociology, 2016
This research is an initial investigation into the ways community-based learning increase the cognitive skills central to the exercise of the sociological imagination. In addition to identifying a means to reveal that learning had occurred, we looked for evidence that the students were mastering sociological content, especially the concepts and…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Participant Observation, College Faculty, Content Analysis
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Jones, Susan; Hall, Christine; Thomson, Pat; Barrett, Andy; Hanby, Julian – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2013
In this article, we discuss the work undertaken in the first phase of a participatory theatre project which took place on a council housing estate in the Midlands of England, in which residents were invited to share their memories for a production which would present the history of the estate. This community is often characterised as deficient,…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Foreign Countries, Participation, Community Coordination