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Enhancing Global Service-Learning with Partnerships as an Engagement Strategy for Christian Higher Education
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Bish, Gregory T.; Lommel, John – Christian Higher Education, 2016
Global engagement programming across higher education continues to expand as institutional leaders and practitioners strive to meet global citizenship and civic engagement outcomes. This article presents case study research on a global service-learning partnership, the "Christian University" (CU) Wheelchair Project, which has involved…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Church Related Colleges, Christianity, Service Learning
Rural Minority Student Engagement with a Healthcare Pipeline Program
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Holley, Karri A. – Journal of Research in Rural Education, 2013
Rural communities are underserved by the medical profession. This shortage is particularly acute for minority rural communities lacking reliable access to minority healthcare professionals. This article reports the results of a study designed to understand the attitudes and responses of rural minority students who participated in a program…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Minority Group Students, Content Analysis, Community Needs
Brotherhood, Social Justice, and Persistent Deficit Ideologies: Latino Students' Experiences in an All-Male Catholic High School
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Aldana, Ursula S. – Journal of Catholic Education, 2016
Declining Catholic school enrollment rates coupled with increasing numbers of Latino Catholics (in the US) have prompted Catholic leaders to interrogate how they can best engage and meet the needs of the Latino community (Alliance for Catholic Education, 2009; Ospino, 2014). Much of this work focuses on how Catholic schools can attract Latino…
Descriptors: Social Justice, High School Students, Working Class, Catholics
Supporting an Externally Developed Model of Education in Greenland
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Wyatt, Tasha R. – International Journal of Educational Reform, 2010
This study investigated the adaptation process of an externally developed model of reform in Greenland's educational system. Under investigation was how reform leaders responded to the needs of the community after implementing an educational model developed in the United States by researchers at the Center for Research on Education, Diversity, and…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Models, Professional Development
An Analysis of the Community College Concept in the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam
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Epperson, Cynthia K. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this study was to discover if core characteristics exist forming a Vietnamese community college model and to determine if the characteristics would explain the model. This study utilized three theoretical orientations while reviewing the existing literature, formulating the research questions, examining the data and drawing…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Human Capital, Community Needs, Community Colleges
The Development of Ethnobotany Curriculum for Students in Rural Schools: An Approach that Incorporates the Needs and Insights of Local Communities
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Kraipeerapun, Kittima; Thongthew, Sumlee – International Education Journal, 2007
In this paper, an ethnobotany curriculum is used as a case example of one approach to incorporating the insights and needs of the local community into the curriculum development process. This curriculum development was carried out in the "Kiriwong Community" in Nakornsrithammarat Province, Southern Thailand. The ethnobotany curriculum…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Curriculum Development, Rural Schools, Participant Observation