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Environmental Explorations: Integrating Project-Based Learning and Civic Engagement through an Afterschool Program
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Farmer, Rachel; Greene, NaKayla; Perry, Kristen H.; Jong, Cindy – Journal of Educational Research and Practice, 2019
This study examined the Community Super Investigators Club, through which we aimed to apply mathematics and literacy skills by using project-based learning (PBL) to investigate elementary students' interest in learning how to improve the environment for animals. PBL is a teaching method used to improve critical thinking skills around a project…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Student Projects, Citizen Participation, After School Programs
"We Don't Want to Talk about That": Overcoming Barriers to Rural Aging Research and Interventions on Sensitive Topics
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Zanjani, Faika; Rowles, Graham D. – Journal of Rural Studies, 2012
Geographical, economic, social and cultural barriers to accessing services in rural areas are widely reported. Less widely discussed are dilemmas posed by individual and community reluctance to address sensitive health issues. This article, focusing on the highly sensitive area of mental health, and employing a participatory action approach,…
Descriptors: Action Research, Intervention, Mental Health, Rural Areas
The Impact of New Industry on Local Government Finances in Five Small Towns in Kentucky.
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Garrison, Charles B. – 1970
The establishment of new manufacturing plants in 5 towns in Kentucky had a negative net fiscal impact on most local governmental units during 1958-63. In most of the counties studied, the direct effect of locating new manufacturing plants in the small towns was to increase the costs of government for the school district, and often the town,…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Case Studies, Community Study, Economic Research
The Troubled Status of Geography in the High Schools of Northern Kentucky.
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Weiss, Edwin T., Jr. – Journal of Geography, 1981
Teachers and administrators from 15 northern Kentucky high schools were interviewed for their definitions of geography and their attitudes toward it as a discipline. Results showed that geography's tenuous hold on its place in the curriculum was caused by widespread ignorance about its usefulness in understanding global and local issues. (AM)
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Educational Research, Geography, High Schools
Eastern Kentuckians View Their Quality of Life: Implications for Development.
Coughenour, C. Milton; Coleman, A. Lee – 1979
Data from 1961, 1971, and 1973 surveys of households and community "knowledgeables" focused on the subjective assesssments of the quality of life (QOL) of residents of Harlan, Perry, Whitley, and Wolfe counties in Eastern Kentucky, and assessed policy implications. Overall, residents assessed their counties favorably. They rated wages…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Community Change, Community Problems, Community Satisfaction
Would You Like To Swing on a Star? Opportunities To Improve Education in Kentucky's Fifth Congressional District. A Report to the Shakertown Roundtable Conference on Economic Development and Education in Kentucky's Fifth Congressional District.
Lamm, Carol; And Others – 1986
Interviews conducted in Kentucky's Fifth Congressional District sought answers for improving educational quality in the district, which has the highest dropout rate, the lowest holding power, and the lowest standardized test scores in Kentucky. Members of the Mountain Association for Community Economic Development interviewed 155 people from 15 of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Community Action, Community Development, Community Involvement