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Shaoru Annie Zeng; Sun Yee Yip; Grace Xuecong Ji; Yaqing Hou; Hongzhi Zhang; Philip Wing Keung Chan; Zane Diamond; Geraldine Burke – International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives, 2024
This study analyses how community resources are integrated into four areas of the Australian Curriculum: Languages (Chinese), The Arts (Visual Arts), Sciences, and Humanities and Social Sciences (Economics and Business). It examines four case studies to compare the use of rural resources and local partnerships in achieving educational goals and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Community Resources, Public Libraries, Museums
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Rye, James A.; Selmer, Sarah J.; Pennington, Sara; Vanhorn, Laura; Fox, Sarah; Kane, Sarah – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2012
A national movement is underway to establish elementary school gardens, which can serve both academic and social purposes. These gardens can positively impact students' science achievement and provide the thematic and hands-on approach especially conducive to learning for students with disabilities. Garden-based learning (GBL) broadens the scope…
Descriptors: Plants (Botany), Gardening, Community Resources, Grade 4
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Peralta, Claudia; Galaviz, Sonia – GIST Education and Learning Research Journal, 2013
As educators committed to preparing teachers to teach effectively across differences and in ways that actively resist perpetuating injustices, we have found that designing opportunities that take teachers into the children's community is the best way to learn about the cultural wealth existing in homes and to understand the importance of including…
Descriptors: School Community Relationship, Family School Relationship, Graduate Students, Home Visits
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McClay, Jill Kedersha; Peterson, Shelley Stagg; Nixon, Rhonda – Middle School Journal (J3), 2012
Educators have long recognized that parental and community supports are important underpinnings for children's success in school. With respect to the teaching of writing, however, little research has been conducted to provide evidence of effective practices teachers use to involve parents and communities. As part of a national Canadian study of…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Foreign Countries, Community Resources, Parent Participation
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Armstrong, David G.; Savage, Tom V., Jr. – Social Education, 1976
A model is provided which shows how the community can become a laboratory in which the learner studies data and makes decisions. In the community laboratory, learners are both participants and observers, helping them understand why they live as they do and how citizens work together to improve community life. (Author/JR)
Descriptors: Community Resources, Educational Resources, Elementary Education, Models
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Norflus, David – Social Science Record, 1977
Resources available to secondary level teachers of economics include the school, newspapers, government, industry, and the community. Methods for utilizing these resources in the classroom are described. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Community Resources, Consumer Education, Economics Education, Resource Materials
Woods, Isabelle; And Others – Illinois Career Education Journal, 1975
The development of minicourses in the junior high schools at Crystal Lake in the spring of 1973 is considered. (BP)
Descriptors: Community Resources, Junior High Schools, Minicourses, Program Design
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Fagan, Edward R. – English Journal, 1976
Teachers should draw from the resources of their economic, educational, governmental, and religious communities in teaching composition. (DD)
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Community Resources, Community Study, English Instruction
Whiddon, Shirley – Journal of Business Education, 1973
Descriptors: Business Correspondence, Business Education, Community Resources, Community Surveys
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Buggey, JoAnne – Social Education, 1976
This article examines social studies in the primary grades and shows how community resources can facilitate social learning. A three-stage model is examined which addresses the issues of citizenship and community involvement in the primary grades. It provides for teacher/school, parent/community, and learner involvement in all stages of…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Community Involvement, Community Resources, Educational Resources
Cartwright, Laura; Miller, Carol – 1981
This handbook, one of a series of materials, was created to help vocational education teachers in the Mississippi ARC (Appalachian Regional Commission) Region to use resources available in their communities to enrich their classroom teaching. Resources are categorized as communication, government agencies, industry, and local business and…
Descriptors: Community Resources, Educational Resources, Guidelines, Human Resources
Peters, Richard O. – 1976
Most small, rural schools are not equipped to provide each and every student with an education which provides students with learning experiences that are necessary for the development of basic academic and non-academic skills. Therefore, small, rural schools need to identify and utilize the various human, natural, and social resources which…
Descriptors: Community Resources, Educational Resources, Enrichment, Learning Experience
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Ruck, Carolyn L. – Science and Children, 1992
Students discover science resources in their neighborhood that help them see the relevance and long-term applications of concepts learned in the classroom. Students explore people, objects, and geographic resources beginning in the school and extending out into the community. (MDH)
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Community Resources, Community Surveys, Concept Formation
Jocson, Korina; Burnside, Sherdren; Collins, Mualimu – Multicultural Education, 2006
This article looks closely at one instantiation of a poetry-centered practice as supported by June Jordan's Poetry for the People, specifically in the context of an inaugural poetry contest. It builds on an earlier empirical study, which investigated the partnership between Poetry for the People and one East Bay Area high school and the rich…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Writing Processes, Ethnography, Democracy
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Anderson, Karen – Social Studies Journal, 1985
When the author was in fifth grade, she and the other students took a field trip to a nursing home; each child had to interview an elderly person. She discusses the impact of the assignment on her life to illustrate the effectiveness of field trips and interviews as teaching methods. (RM)
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Community Resources, Educational Objectives, Field Trips
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