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Peck, Wayne Campbell; And Others – 1994
Defining "community literacy" as literate acts that could yoke community action with intercultural education, strategic thinking and problem solving, and with observation-based research and theory building, this paper articulates this "generative and tension-filled" vision of community literacy. The paper begins by examining…
Descriptors: Community Action, Community Centers, Community Education, Community Involvement
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Guajardo, Francisco; Perez, Delia; Guajardo, Miguel A.; Davila, Eric; Ozuna, Juan; Saenz, Maribel; Casaperalta, Nadia – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2006
The Llano Grande Center is a non-profit education and community development organization founded in the mid-1990s by youth and teachers out of a public high school classroom in a rural South Texas (USA) community. The Center was created, in large part, to cultivate youth voices as important elements of curriculum development and teacher training…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Community Development, Rural Schools, Action Research
Pacio-Lindin, Dino – 1991
Every immigrant has a right to literacy in his native language, but native language literacy alone does not guarantee success. The objective of a program begun in the 1970s in New York City was to develop biliteracy in immigrants so they could start and manage small businesses in the community. Despite a lack of political protection for the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Bilingualism, Business Administration Education, Community Centers