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Jeffrey Lynn Fullam – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to explore how individuals describe their initial and continued motivation to volunteer at a Texas Veterans Service Organization (VSO). The literature review indicated a gap in understanding the motivations of those who volunteer to support VSOs. The ABCE model of volunteer motivation was used…
Descriptors: Volunteers, Veterans, Motivation, Beliefs
Carla Herrera; Michael Garringer; Rachel Bennett – MENTOR: National Mentoring Partnership, 2025
Mentoring is a series of collaborative activities and conversations between young people and older or more experienced persons (i.e., mentors) who are acting in a helping capacity to provide support that benefits one or more areas of the young person's development. This resource offers those who develop and implement mentoring services meaningful…
Descriptors: Mentors, Program Development, Program Improvement, Program Effectiveness
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Megan Duff; Jennifer Zoltners Sherer; Anna Premo; Hanan Perlman – Peabody Journal of Education, 2025
Given their proximity to local problems; deep engagement with educators, students, and other community stakeholders; and emphasis on recognizing systemic factors that produce school-level outcomes, improvement networks and the tools of improvement science offer unique equity affordances. Despite considerable and rapidly shifting environmental…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Regional Characteristics, Administrators, Equal Education
Renee Sedlacek Lee – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The central challenge of social impact education within higher education is the lack of a shared framework to unify language and practice across an institution. One framework gaining popularity among Community Engagement Professionals (CEPs) is the Pathways of Public Service and Civic Engagement. The purpose of this basic qualitative study was to…
Descriptors: Social Change, Social Influences, Citizen Participation, Public Service
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Susanna Crowson; Daniel Poole; Kelly Scargill; Megan Freeth – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2024
Post-diagnostic support for autistic adults in the United Kingdom is geographically inequitable and, in general, considered inadequate. This results in autistic adults facing unnecessary challenges and wide-ranging poor outcomes. A modified Delphi study sought to establish autistic adults' priorities for optimal provision of post-diagnostic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Adults, Access to Health Care
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Anthony J. Maher; Justin A. Haegele – Educational Review, 2024
In this article, we amplify the voices of visually impaired people to explore the authenticity of simulating visual impairment (VI) as a means of developing empathy among sighted student teachers. Participants were nine visually impaired adults who read vignettes narrating simulation experiences of student teachers in a university setting before…
Descriptors: Visual Impairments, Empathy, Perspective Taking, Student Teachers
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Ellie Fossey; James Bonnamy; Janeane Dart; Melissa Petrakis; Niels Buus; Sze-Ee Soh; Basia Diug; Dashini Ayton; Gabrielle Brand – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2024
Consumer and community involvement (also referred to as patient and public involvement) in health-related curricula involves actively partnering with people with lived experience of health and social care systems. While health professions education has a long history of interaction with patients or consumers, a shift in the way consumer and…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Role, Health Education, Barriers
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Gunzenhauser, Michael G.; Flores, Osly J.; Quigley, Michael W. – Journal of School Leadership, 2024
Background: Limited work has been done to integrate ethical leadership and anti-racist school leadership practice. Through narrative ethics, this paper links caring with race-consciousness to form a foundation for critical praxis. Purpose: The authors address the limitations of caring leadership by arguing for a race-conscious narrative ethics…
Descriptors: Leadership, Racism, Caring, Ethics
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Lisa Junkin Lopez – Journal of Museum Education, 2024
This article posits that advancing equity is necessary but not sufficient for creating a more just world: we need belonging. Using a lens of racial justice to define the concept of belonging, the author considers how to practice cultivating it within the context of an aquarium's community-based engagement. Through case studies framed by belonging…
Descriptors: Sense of Community, Recreational Facilities, Community Involvement, Restorative Practices
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Emma May – Information and Learning Sciences, 2024
Purpose: The literature review explores how multidisciplinary approaches based on critical pedagogy and participatory research can provide frameworks for equitable partnerships and genuine participation in educational design and research practices. Additionally, the essay aims to expand understandings of equitable engagement within educational…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Educational Research, Disabilities, Community Involvement
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Anna Vancsó; Orsolya Kovács-Magosi – Global Studies of Childhood, 2024
The relationship between online and offline activism has been studied intensely, especially with the outbreak of COVID-19 that forced environmental movements to be online. Nowadays, activists can mobilize crowds and create unique self-representation online by using social media, which requires specific knowledge and skills. In our research…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Activism, Social Media, Adolescent Attitudes
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Tyler Derreth – Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 2024
With the continued growth in online education, higher education institutions have moved community engagement further into virtual spaces through e-service learning courses (Faulconer, 2021). These courses have a history of being client-based, rather than critical or transformational (Strait & Nordyke, 2015). I argue that this conception of…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Electronic Learning, Service Learning, Teaching Methods
Isabelita Destura Quintero – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This qualitative descriptive study delves into the strengths and challenges community-engaged faculty face in sustaining university-community partnerships through community engagement. Framed by Bender's community engagement model, the primary research question examines how university faculty articulate their strengths and challenges within these…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, School Community Relationship, Partnerships in Education, Community Involvement
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Fricker, Aleryk; Moodie, Nikki; Burgess, Cathie – Australian Educational Researcher, 2023
For over a century, since Aboriginal children were permitted to access mainstream Australian schools, there has been a significant gap in academic achievement between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal students. Community engagement by schools is recognised as a key factor in Aboriginal student success, but school approaches to community engagement…
Descriptors: School Community Relationship, Indigenous Populations, Foreign Countries, Community Involvement
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Abusamra, Asmaa; Suyanto; Wibawa, Sutrisna – Journal of Education, 2023
This study aims to identify the extent of the Palestinian principals' role in creating safe schools in the Gaza Strip as a war zone. A mixed-method research design was employed. The study indicates the school principals' awareness in creating school safety. The study also concludes that there are no statistically significant differences between…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Role, School Safety, War
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