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Stefanski, Amanda; Valli, Linda; Jacobson, Reuben – School Community Journal, 2016
Research indicates that partnerships between schools and neighborhood communities support student learning, improve schools, and strengthen families and neighborhoods. These partnerships expand the traditional educational mission of the school to include health and social services for children and their families and to involve the broader…
Descriptors: Student Participation, Learner Engagement, Partnerships in Education, Family School Relationship
Correia, Ana-Paula; Yusop, Farrah Dina; Wilson, Jay R.; Schwier, Richard A. – Online Submission, 2010
This paper compares how two universities, Iowa State University and the University of Saskatchewan, exploit a service-learning and authentic learning approach to instructional design. Both programs emphasize student engagement and responsibility, as well as projects that have social significance. At the same time, the courses offered by the two…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Comparative Analysis
Slater, Michael D.; Kelly, Kathleen J.; Edwards, Ruth W.; Thurman, Pamela J.; Plested, Barbara A.; Keefe, Thomas J.; Lawrence, Frank R.; Henry, Kimberly L. – Health Education Research, 2006
This study tests the impact of an in-school mediated communication campaign based on social marketing principles, in combination with a participatory, community-based media effort, on marijuana, alcohol and tobacco uptake among middle-school students. Eight media treatment and eight control communities throughout the US were randomly assigned to…
Descriptors: Marijuana, Prevention, Marketing, Mass Media Effects
Cunningham, David; Kingma-Kiekhofer, Cheryl – Teaching Sociology, 2004
This article introduces an approach to service learning based on students' collective engagement with a range of community organizations. We explore the particular benefits of this comparative collective community-based (CCC) learning model through a discussion of the "Possibilities for Change in American Communities" program, which was begun by…
Descriptors: School Community Relationship, Service Learning, Comparative Analysis, Community Organizations
Yugar, Yolanda; And Others – 1996
The Pennsylvania Department of Education's Learn and Serve America K-12 Grant Program distributes funds from the Corporation for National Service to schools to develop and expand service learning programs throughout Pennsylvania. The 1995-96 grant program is currently funding 101 school-based programs (70 recipients of continuing funds from the…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Comparative Analysis, Educational Cooperation, Elementary Secondary Education
Lazaruk, Walter Andrew – 1982
This report summarizes a comparative study of 15 government-designated community schools (DCSs) and 17 nondesignated schools (NDSs) in Alberta (Canada). To assist decision-makers and to identify for the public the accomplishments of the community school program, the researcher provides baseline data on 10 variables derived from the Alberta…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Community Education, Community Involvement, Community Schools
Hecht, Deborah; Fusco, Dana R. – 1996
A study examined 64 eighth-grade students' perceptions of opportunities available from participating in service learning and contrasted these with perceived learning opportunities available in school. Each student was enrolled in a 10-week required service learning course. Students visited service sites daily and had reflection periods two times…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Experiential Learning, Grade 8, Junior High Schools
Gold, Martin; Mattick, Hans W. – 1974
The Chicago Youth Development Project was an action-research program jointly undertaken by the Chicago Boys Club and the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research to test whether a program of aggressive street work and community organization in the core of a city could reduce delinquency among youth living there. The report presents a…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Community Programs, Comparative Analysis, Delinquency