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Hammersley, Laura – Asia-Pacific Journal of Cooperative Education, 2012
Community-based service-learning (CBSL) integrates experiential learning and academic goals with organized activities designed to meet the objectives of community partners. CBSL has potential to enhance (1) academic learning, (2) foster civic responsibility, (3) develop life skills and (4) transform student attitudes. However, little research…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Experiential Learning, Educational Benefits, Partnerships in Education
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Munck, Ronaldo – Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 2010
Can civic engagement become a "core business" of the contemporary university, or is it an attractive "add-on" that is not affordable in the current economic climate? Contemporary universities often play an important role in local community development and, as such, have the opportunity to develop civic engagement strategies to…
Descriptors: Community Development, Citizenship, Citizen Participation, Global Approach
Butler, Thomas – ProQuest LLC, 2008
This study examined how a rural school district and the communities in which the district belonged collaborated on a community development initiative. This dissertation examined the opportunities and constraints rural communities are facing and the role that a rural school system could play in increasing social and economic sustainability of rural…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, School Districts, School Community Relationship, Global Approach
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Faircloth, Susan C. – Journal of Research in Rural Education, 2009
In "Learning to Leave," Michael Corbett argues that: (1) education has served as a tool to disassociate students--both physically and culturally--from the places from which they come, particularly if they are from rural places, in effect creating an ambivalence toward education; (2) the ways in which individuals express this ambivalence…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, American Indian Education, Global Approach, Migration
Schlack, Marilyn; And Others – 1993
The papers in this collection describe partnership programs and projects involving Kalamazoo Valley Community College (KVCC) in Michigan. The first paper, "The Arcadia Commons Partnership: The Community College and Economic Redevelopment," by Marilyn Schlack, describes the Arcadia Commons, a business-education park in downtown Kalamazoo,…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Community Colleges, Community Development, Consortia