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Extension Administrators' Perspectives on Employee Competencies and Characteristics
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Elliott-Engel, Jeremy; Westfall-Rudd, Donna; Seibel, Megan; Kaufman, Eric; Radhakrishna, Rama – Journal of Extension, 2021
Extension administrators discussed the competencies and characteristics of Extension professionals as they explored how Extension will need adapt to changing clientele, both in who they are and how they want to receive information. Extension education curriculum is not fully preparing future Extension employees in all required competencies,…
Descriptors: Extension Education, Administrator Attitudes, Extension Agents, Competence
Changing Configurations of Adult Education in Transitional Times. Conference Proceedings of the Triennial European Research Conference of the European Society for Research on the Education of Adults (ESREA) (7th, Berlin, Germany, September 4-7, 2013)
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Käpplinger, Bernd, Ed.; Lichte, Nina, Ed.; Haberzeth, Erik, Ed.; Kulmus, Claudia, Ed. – Online Submission, 2014
This book assembles over 50 papers from the 7th Triennial European Research Conference of the European Society for Research on the Education of Adults (ESREA), which was held from the 4th to the 7th of September 2013 at Humboldt-University in Berlin. The title of the conference was "Changing Configurations of Adult Education in Transitional…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Higher Education, Nontraditional Students
Alternatives to the Peace Corps: A Directory of Third World & U.S. Volunteer Opportunities. Sixth Edition.
Olson, Annette, Ed. – 1994
Some returned Peace Corps volunteers believe that U.S. foreign policy has been more damaging than helpful in the Third World. They question the links between U.S. foreign and military policy and the Peace Corps. This book addresses such questions and brings together resources and information that will help the prospective volunteer find an…
Descriptors: Activism, Community Development, Developing Nations, Employment Opportunities
Communities in the Making: Pedagogic Explorations Using Oral History
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Harding, Jennifer; Gabriel, John – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2004
This article discusses two projects supported by the Higher Education Active Community Fund, which involved student and staff volunteers in working with local communities and community-based organisations in two London boroughs. Oral history methods were used to investigate and represent the experiences of elderly people living in Borough A and…
Descriptors: Community Development, Oral History, Higher Education, Editing
Facts on Grants, 1982. A Report on Grant-Making.
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Mott (C.S.) Foundation, Flint, MI. – 1982
Summaries of 361 grants made in 1982 by the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation are presented. The guide contains fact sheets on grants for $15,000 or more; all grants for amounts under $15,000 are listed with brief descriptions. Most of the fact sheets provide information on how the grants meet the objectives of the Foundation, what they might…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Citizenship Education, Community Development, Community Education
Facts on Grants, 1983. A Report on Grantmaking of the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation.
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Mott (C.S.) Foundation, Flint, MI. – 1983
Summaries of 349 grants made in 1983 by the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation are presented. The guide contains fact sheets on grants for $15,000 or above; all grants for amounts under $15,000 are listed with brief descriptions. Most of the fact sheets provide information on how grants meet the objectives of the foundation, what they might…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Citizenship Education, Community Development, Community Education