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Egwemi, O. P.; Salifu, Peter Ogohi – Research in Drama Education, 2023
This article recounts our field experience and research in TfD in the Ofabo community, Kogi State, Nigeria. Through socially engaged performance and participant observation, this study finds that the poor state of drinking water in the Ofabo community results from government negligence, inadequate awareness, and the inactivity of community…
Descriptors: Drama Education, Community Development, Water, Rural Areas
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Tchoukaleyska, Roza; Carter, Ken; Dluginski, Emily; Forward, Marilyn; King, Andrew; Leblanc, Olivia; Ratcliffe, Christopher – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2022
In this article, we examine the development of a new, experiential learning human geography and planning course at a smaller campus in Newfoundland, Canada. Our interest is twofold: to consider how pedagogical approaches can be transferred between a large urban campus and a small-town location; and to examine the benefits and complications of such…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Geography Instruction, Urban Planning, Human Geography
Dauda Moses; Safiya Adamu; Barbara Crossouard; Máiréad Dunne – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2024
This case study discusses the use of participatory visual methods with two groups of young women (coresearcher participants) in two distinct (Muslim and Christian) communities in rural northern Nigeria. These workshops addressed the challenges the young women faced in combining education with the multiple forms of work demanded of them in their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Young Adults, Christianity
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Morales, Sarahi; Brashears, Michel T.; Boren-Alpizar, Amy; Meyers, Courtney; Oldewage-Theron, Wilna – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2021
Purpose: The objective was to investigate the role of traditional leaders in the implementation of food security projects in South Africa. Design/Methodology: A qualitative, phenomenological approach was used as a research design. A purposive sample of seven individuals was selected representing the community, extension agents, and researchers.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Hunger, Food, Nutrition
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Kimura, Rikio – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2020
This case study, by using transformative learning underpinned by critical realism, explores how a contextualised and non-confrontational rights-based approach by a Cambodian non-governmental organisation (NGO) has influenced rural citizens' agency in fulfilling their rights to development. The NGO, by working closely with the government, has…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Nongovernmental Organizations, Civil Rights, Rural Areas
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Tschurenev, Jana – Comparative Education, 2021
This article discusses the 'Indianisation', 'nationalisation', and 'ruralisation' of the Montessori method in India at the eve, and in the aftermath of the country's political independence (1947). From 1914 onwards, Indian nationalists received Montessori's ideas through publications, the networks of the new education movement, and the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Montessori Method, Educational History, Rural Education
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Akther, Farzana; Dirckinck-Holmfeld, Lone – Designs for Learning, 2019
The introduction and implementation of ICT depends not only on technological issues but also on social and institutional factors. To respond to these challenges, in this article we describe our engagement with an ICT4D research case conducted in collaboration with the Community Empowerment Programme (CEP) of the non-governmental organization (NGO)…
Descriptors: Photography, Social Action, Rural Areas, Community Development
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Wang, Qianran – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2019
This article introduces Kominkan and its practice on Japanese social education and how it facilitates Japanese adult education and lifelong learning in local communities. Historically, social education was understood as all education that promotes social development and societal progress. Kominkan, as Japanese social education institutions for…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Adult Learning, Lifelong Learning, Self Determination
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Murray, Jaclyn; Rudolph, Norma – Journal of Pedagogy, 2019
Following calls for diverse and contextual perspectives of the rich lives of young children, their families and communities from/in the Global South, this paper presents critical reflections emerging from a three-year (2016-2019) community-based Integrated Approach to Early Childhood Development (ECD) project implemented in the rural Eastern Cape…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Child Development, Early Childhood Education, Young Children
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Obetta, Chukwuemeka K.; Oreh, Catherine I. – Africa Education Review, 2017
Utilisation of community management strategies is an approach to governance that is based on community and organisational involvement. Communities with development projects have formed community projects management committees (CPMCs) that are encouraged to adopt the community management strategy in the planning and financing of community…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Community Development, Program Administration, Program Development
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Le, Ai Tam Pham – International Review of Education, 2018
Community learning centres (CLCs) have been widely established in the Asia-Pacific region as locally managed institutions that offer non-formal educational opportunities and community development activities. Myanmar officially has more than 3,000 centres, which is one of the highest numbers in the region. This article examines the operation of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Nonformal Education, Community Programs, Community Development
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Green, Bill – Australian and International Journal of Rural Education, 2015
This paper seeks to develop a case for (re)thinking education and sustainability with specific reference to rural Australia. It proposes a critical view of rural-regional sustainability, taking into account notions of bioregionality and ecosocial change. Two key points are made. One is the assertion that rural education as such is better…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Education, Rural Schools, Rural Areas
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Gombe, Sani Yakubu; Bin Suandi, Turiman; Ismail, Ismi Arif; Omar, Zohara – Journal of Education and Practice, 2016
Research in extension education is a serious and challenging task facing Nigeria today because of new trends that keeps on emerging continuously. This paper seeks to examine some of the common research techniques used in extension education and describe their applicability and workability in helping people to help themselves. Most of the…
Descriptors: Extension Education, Research, Foreign Countries, Action Research
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Lúcio, Joana; Ferreira, Fernando – Australian and International Journal of Rural Education, 2017
"À Descoberta do Mundo Rural" [Discovering the Rural World] was a 15-month-long project, based on a partnership between the Institute of Educational Communities (ICE) and the Portuguese Association for Local Development (ANIMAR), both Portuguese NGOs, and financed by national and European funds. Its purpose was to identify and give…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Community Development, Foreign Countries, Partnerships in Education
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Bauer, Ros – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2018
The Whole of Community Engagement (WCE) initiative commenced in July 2014, led by the Office of Pro Vice Chancellor of Indigenous Leadership at Charles Darwin University (CDU). WCE aimed to build the aspiration, expectation and capacity of six remote and very remote Indigenous communities in the Northern Territory to participate and achieve in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Higher Education, Access to Education
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