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Morales, Sarahi; Brashears, Michel T.; Boren-Alpizar, Amy; Meyers, Courtney; Oldewage-Theron, Wilna – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2021
Purpose: The objective was to investigate the role of traditional leaders in the implementation of food security projects in South Africa. Design/Methodology: A qualitative, phenomenological approach was used as a research design. A purposive sample of seven individuals was selected representing the community, extension agents, and researchers.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Hunger, Food, Nutrition
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Ademola Olumuyiwa Omotosho – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2024
Purpose: This study aims to explore the contribution of Enactus sustainability initiatives to youth empowerment and community development, thus analysing how South African higher education institutions can increase student involvement in Enactus projects across all faculties. Design/methodology/approach: Using a systematic literature review…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sustainability, Community Development, Student Empowerment
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de Freitas Ermel, Tatiane; Hernández Huerta, José Luis – Journal of New Approaches in Educational Research, 2022
In the 1970s and 1980s, the social and professional imaginaries of education, sociopolitical conceptions of it, and educational practices in Spain, began to be influenced by certain elements specific to critical popular education, which had developed in Latin America during the "long 1960s." Paulo Freire's work was particularly prominent…
Descriptors: Popular Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Practices, Clergy
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Herrera-Pastor, David; Juárez, Jesús; Ruiz-Román, Cristóbal – School Leadership & Management, 2020
This article analyses the collaborative leadership of a network-based approach that seeks to subvert the social inequality suffered by the residents of "Los Asperones" (Málaga, Spain), where approximately one thousand people live in extreme exclusion. The network is made up of various socio-educational associations, schools and social…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Leadership, Disproportionate Representation, Foreign Countries
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Edwards, D. Brent, Jr.; DeMatthews, David; Spear, Anne; Hartley, Hilary – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2021
Based on research in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, this article argues that the globally popular reform of school-based management suffers from several shortcomings and is a partial, extractive, and technocratic means of engendering parental and community participation. Ultimately, this article demonstrates that it is necessary to move beyond SBM as a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Community Involvement, Empowerment, Parent Participation
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Preece, Julia – Education as Change, 2016
This article builds on two recent publications (Preece 2013; 2013a) concerning the application of asset-based community development and adaptive leadership theories when negotiating university service learning placements with community organisations in one South African province. The first publication introduced the concept of 'adaptive…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Service Learning, Leadership, Action Research
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Zivkovic, Sharon – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2019
While active citizenship education programs are assumed to have positive benefits for the active citizenship practice of participants (UNESCO, 2009, p. 4), there is actually little evidence that programs do (de Weerd, Gemmeke, Rigter & van Riji, 2005, p. vii). This paper discusses a research project that aimed to determine and increase the…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Sustainable Development, Program Effectiveness, Power Structure
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Mbah, Marcellus F. – Higher Education Research and Development, 2016
Universities have long been considered to possess the capacity that can foster local community development in a developing context such as in sub-Saharan Africa. Yet, it is not clear what disposition the university should adopt, given the complexity surrounding its mission in a changing landscape. Drawing on the meaning of community development…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Community Development, African Culture, Interviews
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Avoseh, Mejai B. M., Ed. – Commission for International Adult Education, 2018
These "Proceedings" derived from the Commission for International Adult Education's (CIAE) 2018 International Pre-Conference. They contain 23 papers from 32 authors. Eight of the lead authors are graduate students -- four are rounding up their Master's degrees while four are on their doctoral programs. The rest are a mix of seasoned and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Role of Education, Innovation, Technology Uses in Education
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Skinner, Kate – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2010
This article takes as its starting point a strike among African trainee literacy workers in the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast (now Ghana) in 1952. While the existing literature tends to concentrate on the tensions and contradictions in British colonial education policy, this article uses the strike to investigate how these agendas were…
Descriptors: Strikes, Community Development, Foreign Countries, Foreign Policy
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Smyth, John – Critical Studies in Education, 2009
This paper critiques the notion of community capacity building (CCB) and the way it is increasingly being invoked in social policy as a way of tackling disadvantage. The paper argues that CCB and a number of its derivative terms are not as straightforward as they appear. Superficially, CCB presents as a useful way of approaching school and…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Leadership, Public Policy, Foreign Countries
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Davies, Amanda – Rural Society, 2007
Over the last decade, rural leadership policies and programmes have attracted substantial support from all tiers of government. These policies are promulgated as a support mechanism for enhancing the internal capacity of rural communities to adjust to changes in the social and political-economic landscape. Leadership training programmes have been…
Descriptors: Community Development, Leadership Training, Leadership Effectiveness, Rural Areas
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Johns, Susan – Educational Forum, 2003
Case studies of five successful rural Australian school-community partnerships in vocational education illustrated stages of the leadership process (trigger, initiation, development, reflection, sustainability) and different roles needed at each stage. School and community sources of leadership and benefits of shared leadership were identified.…
Descriptors: Community Development, Foreign Countries, Leadership, Partnerships in Education
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O'Meara, Peter; Chesters, Janice; Han, Gil-Soo – Rural Society, 2004
The Alberton Project was a three-year community capacity building project that ran from 1999 until 2002. It aimed to revitalise the local community surrounding the small Victorian town of Yarram. Evaluation of the project involved participant observation, monitoring of media reports, surveys and interviews. Outcomes are reported with reference to…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Community Development, Community Programs, Program Evaluation
Simpson, Rosie – 2001
In the last decade, a technological revolution has touched all aspects of business and society in Australia, the Western world, and to a lesser extent, the developing world. This revolution has occurred against a backdrop of long-term fundamental changes in rural Australian communities. The decline in traditional agriculture's terms of trade and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Community Development, Economic Development, Foreign Countries
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