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Cacari Stone, Lisa; Avila, Magdalena; Duran, Bonnie – Health Education & Behavior, 2021
Purpose: Historical trauma has been widely applied to American Indian/Alaska Native and other Indigenous populations and includes dimensions of language, sociocultural, and land losses and associated physical and mental disorders, as well as economic hardships. Insufficient evidence remains on the experiences of historical trauma due to waves of…
Descriptors: Trauma, Epistemology, American Indians, History
Wilson, Bruce – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2011
At a time when the OECD (2007) is advocating more local engagement for higher education institutions, this study looks at a number of community initiatives in Australia where local universities have played a key role. All were studied as part of the PASCAL Universities and Regional Engagement (PURE) project, which involves a total of 19 regions…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Regional Planning, Regional Programs
Halperin, Samuel, Ed. – 1998
The 10 papers in this report review what the United States has accomplished for late-adolescents and young adults in the past decade since publication of "The Forgotten Half." The consensus from the 15 authors is that many developments have not been encouraging. "Today's Forgotten Half: Still Losing Ground" (Samuel Halperin), a review of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, College Bound Students, Community Programs, Demography
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Austria, Ruben S. – Afterschool Matters, 2006
This article highlights the importance for the youth justice movement to come to terms with a critical reality: The struggle for justice on a societal level cannot be separated from the work of nurturing, healing, and developing young people. Ruben S. Austria, Juvenile Justice Coalition steering committee member and founding director of…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Juvenile Justice, Educational Change, Social Change
Constitutional Rights Foundation, Chicago, IL. – 1994
This booklet describes the relationship of service learning to the social studies and examines public policy issues as a crucial step in the service learning process. Service learning is defined and explained using the ACT (Active Citizenship Today) approach whereby students: (1) define and focus on their community; (2) research community…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Citizen Participation, Citizenship Education, Civics
Battistoni, Richard M., Ed.; Hudson, William E., Ed. – 1997
This volume is part of a series of 18 monographs service learning and the academic disciplines. This collection of essays focuses on the use of service learning as an approach to teaching and learning in political science. Following an Introduction by Richard M. Battistoni and William E. Hudson, the four essays in Part 1, "Service-Learning as…
Descriptors: Citizen Role, Citizenship, Civil Liberties, Civil Rights