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Suvannatsiri, Ratchasak; Santichaianant, Kitidech; Murphy, Elizabeth – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2015
This paper reports on a project in which students designed, constructed and tested a model of an existing early warning system with simulation of debris flow in a context of a landslide. Students also assessed rural community members' knowledge of this system and subsequently taught them to estimate the time needed for evacuation of the community…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Engineering Education, Student Improvement, Emergency Programs
Joseph, Alun; And Others – 1982
As part of on-going research on rural public service provision, researchers illustrated the use of a methodologically rigorous tool (a "tradeoff game") for eliciting community preferences for municipal public services. The trade-off game allowed adults in 122 households in Erin Township, Wellington County, Ontario, to assess 13 currently…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Case Studies, Community Attitudes, Community Services
Aikenhead, Glen S. – 1988
This guide is written for Saskatchewan science teachers (particularly grades 7-12) who wish to know more about features of the proposed new science curricula for Saskatchewan. The purpose is to clarify the expanding repertoire of science teaching strategies which a teacher will develop as he or she implements one of the new science courses in…
Descriptors: Community Services, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Decision Making, Discussion (Teaching Technique)
Passage: Journal of Refugee Education, 1987
The three 1987 issues of the Journal of Refugee Education include articles on the following topics: on-the-job training; preparing refugee children for elementary school programs; examining attitudes and stereotypes through video; older teenagers at the Bataan (Philippines) refugee site; developing a survey course in Indonesian culture for…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Artists, Children, Community Services