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Brownlee, Joanne M.; Farrell, Ann; Davis, Julie – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2012
Over the last decade, Papua New Guinea (PNG) has pursued educational reform in elementary teacher education. Because elementary teachers and teacher education are central to the reform agenda, there is a need to gain empirical evidence about how PNG teacher trainers' understandings about learning and teaching impact on their practice. The study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Community Leaders, Elementary Education
Denton, Drew – 1980
Project IMPACT, a joint effort by public and private schools in Grand Forks (ND) to provide services to gifted elementary students, is described. Four project objectives are identified: to combine educational resources of public and private schools; to provide workshops and resources for teachers; to identify teachers suitable for teaching…
Descriptors: Community Role, Elementary Education, Gifted, Program Costs
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Moll, Luis C.; Gonzalez, Norma – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1994
Summarizes four projects that attempt to use cultural resources for instruction, each in a unique way. Suggests that these projects serve as catalysts to challenge the status quo by creating conditions and activities for novel uses of literacy. Highlights the important mediating functions of literacy, especially in two languages, in helping…
Descriptors: Biculturalism, Bilingual Education Programs, Community Involvement, Community Role
Schine, Joan – 1989
An argument is made for involving young adolescents in community service programs, either school-based or community-based. Content focuses on: (1) a rationale for youth community service; (2) the young adolescent and community service; (3) appropriate roles for young adolescents; (4) sponsorship of youth community service; (5) the placement site…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Community Role, Community Services, Educational Change
Garner, Ruth, Ed. – 2002
Noting the major changes in mothers' work lives and the significance that out-of-home care arrangements take on in children's lives, this book is a collection of accounts of what children do after school, both outside and inside after-school centers. The centers described are in differing communities, with differing values and differing ways of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, After School Centers, After School Education, After School Programs
Hatcher, Barbara, Ed. – 1987
The 12 articles in this monograph discuss the value of informal learning for children, and suggest how basic skills can be reinforced at school, home, and within community groups and institutions. Promising programs, practices, and activities for children are highlighted. Topics addressed include: (1) a rationale for a rededication to a holistic…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Basic Skills, Community Role, Community Services