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Serrano Navarro, Grecia; Vecchio, Mike – Arts Education Policy Review, 2023
Professional development can help to ensure teaching artists have the requisite knowledge and skills to lead effective instruction. However, the specific format of professional development can vary. One organization that provides professional development for their teaching artists is the Youth Orchestra Los Angeles (YOLA) program, which is an El…
Descriptors: Music Education, Musicians, Faculty Development, Artists
Heather Kerns – ProQuest LLC, 2021
In the school to work transition process, school personnel collaborate with community employment and vocational rehabilitation to establish an employment plan for Individual(s) with Disabilities (IWDs). Development of the Individualized Education Transition Plan (IETP) is often haphazard and not evaluated for effectiveness, resulting in poor…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Disabilities, Individualized Education Programs, Transitional Programs
White, Annie M.; Akiva, Thomas; Colvin, Sharon; Li, Junlei – AERA Open, 2022
A growing movement suggests that social and emotional learning (SEL) should be integrated into educational experiences in and outside schools. Afterschool programs can be particularly well suited for SEL, and afterschool educators can play an important role in skill development. We interviewed 23 experienced afterschool educators in…
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, Expertise, After School Programs, Community Programs
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Abudiab, Sally; Eizadirad, Ardavan; Baartman, Brice – Excellence in Education Journal, 2023
This study examined the efficacy of an afternoon and weekend academic program called the "Community School Initiative" (CSI) during the COVID-19 pandemic. CSI was offered to racialized students and families from the Jane and Finch community in Toronto which is one of the most under-resourced neighbourhoods in Canada. It involved a…
Descriptors: After School Programs, COVID-19, Pandemics, Partnerships in Education
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Katherine Hartmann – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2025
Land Grant Institutions (LGIs) and Cooperative Extension were founded to bring educational access to the states they serve. In contrast to this mission and the ubiquitous nature of Extension services in US counties, Extension offices can only be found in a small number of indigenous communities. Despite these inequities, there are Extension…
Descriptors: Extension Agents, Extension Education, Land Grant Universities, Agricultural Education
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Rami Muhtaseb; John Traxler; Howard Scott – Asian Journal of Distance Education, 2024
This article reports on the findings of a study that explored educators' use of social media in formal and informal science education in Palestine, and their perceptions of the integration of the available tools and resources into their formal teaching and learning. The study used semi-structured interviews with 18 educators at three Palestinian…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Science Instruction
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Kirmaci, Mehtap; Buxton, Cory A.; Allexsaht-Snider, Martha – Urban Education, 2023
Building upon a Freirean notion of dialogic education, the purpose of this multi-case study was to explore what happened when secondary science teachers came together with Latinx parents for their children's science learning in the context of a community-based science learning program. Constant comparative analysis of data revealed similarities…
Descriptors: Place Based Education, Science Education, Community Programs, Family Programs
Hassan Alzahrani – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This qualitative study utilized narrative case study research to investigate teachers', paraprofessionals', and administrators' perceptions of the effectiveness of community-based programs (CBP) on the transition to employment for students with an intellectual disability. This study also evaluated activities teachers, and paraprofessionals use in…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Students with Disabilities, Intellectual Disability, Teacher Attitudes
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Carol A. Roberts; Kenya N. Washington; Alicia Betancourt; Holly Abeels; Dreamal Worthen; Martha Monroe – Journal of Extension, 2024
Programs within the Cooperative Extension Service often develop partnerships with other agencies and organizations to better meet their common goals. While there are many benefits of partnerships, they can be challenging when the partners are unequal or have dissimilar needs. Using a survey and interviews with faculty and administrators at two…
Descriptors: Extension Education, Partnerships in Education, Land Grant Universities, Community Programs
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Batsleer, Janet – Education Sciences, 2021
This essay offers a broken narrative concerning the early history of anti-oppressive practice as an approach in the U.K. to youth and community work and the struggles over this in the context of UK higher education between the 1960's and the early 2000's. Educating informal educators as youth and community workers in the UK has been a site of…
Descriptors: Power Structure, Educational Practices, Experiential Learning, Informal Education
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Page, Angela; Mavropoulou, Sofia; Harrington, Ingrid – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2022
This study investigates the effectiveness of a professional development initiative in inclusive education for teachers who support students with disabilities at the Creative Centre. The Creative Centre is a private school providing educational services for post-secondary school young people and adults with disabilities. Staff (N = 5) at the Centre…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Faculty Development, Students with Disabilities, Private Schools
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Rosenberg, Helen; Statham, Anne – Journal of Service-Learning in Higher Education, 2023
This qualitative study of the perceptions of pairs of faculty and community partners who worked together on service-learning projects, reveals a good deal of convergence on their understandings of the goals, work done, and products/outcomes of their projects. Significant divergence did exist on different aspects of these projects based on partner…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Service Learning, Partnerships in Education, Community Programs
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Carol-Ann Burke, Lydia E. – International Journal of Science Education, 2020
Children in low-income neighbourhoods experience an intersection of socio-structural factors that delimit their engagement with out-of-school (informal) science education. Using Bourdieu's framework of habitus, this paper explores how informal science educators and children in a given low-income community in western Canada described the attitudes,…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Science Education, Low Income, Context Effect
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Rampasso, Izabela Simon; Siqueira, Renê Grottoli; Martins, Vitor W. B.; Anholon, Rosley; Quelhas, Osvaldo Luiz Gonçalves; Leal Filho, Walter; Lange Salvia, Amanda; Santa-Eulalia, Luis Antonio – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2021
Purpose: This study aims to analyse the essential characteristics for the success of social projects developed with undergraduate students of higher education institutions (HEIs). Design/methodology/approach: A case study was conducted to verify the main characteristics of projects in a social entrepreneurship initiative. These features were used…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Community Programs, Community Needs, School Community Relationship
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Davis-Cotton, Denise – Arts Education Policy Review, 2022
This paper presents a background of the rates at which educators, teaching artists, college students, retirees, parents, and the public attend arts programs in their schools and communities. The researcher circulated a 19-question online survey to measure the rates of attendance to visual and performing arts events, such as music, dance, arts…
Descriptors: Art Education, Integrated Curriculum, Attendance Patterns, Art Activities
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