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Building the Field of Higher Education Engagement: Foundational Ideas and Future Directions. Revised and Expanded Edition of the 20th Anniversary Issue of the "Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement"
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Sandmann, Lorilee R., Ed.; Jones, Diann O., Ed. – Stylus Publishing LLC, 2019
Community engagement has evolved as a respected field and now occupies a seat at the academic table. In the past, this work had often been relegated to the institutional fringes of higher education, its practitioners marginalized, and the work often portrayed as service, not scholarly. Today, higher education community engagement is a dynamic and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, School Community Relationship, Universities, Community Involvement
Principals as Leaders of School and Community Revitalization: A Phenomenological Study of Three Urban Schools in Morocco
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Elmeski, Mohammed – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2015
This article explores leadership of place in the context of three urban middle schools in Morocco. School reform means that principals are changing from agents of authority to leaders with school improvement responsibilities. This shift in mission can be stressful for principals who are called to lead, but are often constrained by bureaucratic and…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Phenomenology, Comparative Analysis, Social Integration
Engaged Scholarship: Reflections and Research on the Pedagogy of Social Change
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Peterson, Tessa Hicks – Teaching in Higher Education, 2009
Significant shifts are occurring in higher education pedagogy, research methodology, and community development, ones that value civic engagement and experiential learning as bridges to holistic education and sustainable social change. Engaged scholarship through university-community partnerships can result in providing a well-rounded education for…
Descriptors: Community Development, Research Methodology, School Community Relationship, Social Change
An Amazing Medical Discovery! A Comprehensive Neighborhood Quality of Life Enrichment Program. An Intensive Prevention Program To Address the Social Causes of Individual and Community Pathology in an Inner-City Neighborhood. Revised.
Miami-Dade Community Coll., FL. Medical Center Campus. – 1991
In 1991, Miami-Dade Community College (MDCC) developed a proposal for the Comprehensive Neighborhood Quality of Life Enrichment Program, a program to be based on the principles of holism, prevention, and community synergy, focusing on the treatment of individuals with many, complex, and "all-at-once" needs. The program will operate in a poor…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Community Development, Ecology, Economic Climate
Stories from an Appalachian Community.
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Cirillo, Marie – 2000
Fifty-one years of working in Appalachia on land resettlement and preservation of local values have taught Marie Cirillo the importance of not thinking in terms of either/or. It is not science/technology versus indigenous knowledge; it is how one connects the two so there can be proper balance. It is not capital versus labor; it is not…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Community Cooperation, Community Development, Conservation (Environment)
Supporting Indigenous Children's Development: Community-University Partnerships
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Ball, Jessica; Pence, Alan – University of British Columbia Press, 2006
"Supporting Indigenous Children's Development" challenges and offers an alternative to the imposition of best practices on communities by outside specialists. It tells the story of an unexpected partnership initiated by an Aboriginal tribal council with the University of Victoria's School of Child and Youth Care. The partnership has…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Partnerships in Education, School Community Relationship, Canada Natives