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da Rocha, Andrea Oxley; Tormes, Diane Alícia; Lehmann, Natassia; Schwab, Rafael Santos; Canto, Raphael Teixeira – Anatomical Sciences Education, 2013
The use of dissection to study human anatomy is the foundation for educational excellence among future health professionals, as it offers an ideal opportunity to learn the body's morphology in three dimensions while also providing students with a more humanistic education. The shortage of bodies for dissection, combined with the Brazilian…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Donors, Anatomy, Medical Schools
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Bargerstock, Burton A. – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2012
The National Outreach Scholarship Conference has long provided a venue for the presentation of posters representing innovative research, effective practices, and impactful programs. In 2011, conference planners developed a series of measures focused on enriching the poster session as a platform for showcasing community-based scholarship and…
Descriptors: Awards, Consortia, Outreach Programs, Conferences (Gatherings)
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Bookhagen, Britta; Koeberl, Christian; Juang, Linda; DeRosa, Donald A. – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2017
As part of an outreach initiative by the Natural History Museum in Vienna, Austria, an interdisciplinary educational module was developed to teach students about sustainability through the lens of mineral resources used to produce mobile phones. The overall goal of the module is to provide teachers of different subjects with a multifaceted tool to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Outreach Programs, Sustainability, Mineralogy
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Miller, Peter M.; Scanlan, Martin K.; Phillippo, Kate – American Educational Research Journal, 2017
Schools throughout the United States apply comprehensive community partnership strategies to address students' in- and out-of-school needs. Drawing from models like the Harlem Children's Zone, Promise Neighborhoods, and full-service community schools, such strategies call for diverse professionals to reach beyond their own organizations to…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Outreach Programs, Models, Qualitative Research
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McLellan, Josie; Pettigrew, Richard; Sperlinger, Tom – Power and Education, 2016
This article analyses and critiques the discourse around widening participation in elite universities in the UK. One response, from both university administrators and academics, has been to see this as an 'intractable' problem which can at best be ameliorated through outreach or marginal work in admissions policy. Another has been to reject the…
Descriptors: Selective Admission, Access to Education, College Faculty, Foreign Countries
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Weaver, Russell – Journal of Extension, 2016
This article reports on an analysis of the effects of a quasinatural experiment in which 16 rural communities participated in public discussion, leadership training, and community visioning as part of an Extension program at Montana State University. Difference-in-differences methods reveal that key U.S. Census socioeconomic indicators either…
Descriptors: Capacity Building, Community Coordination, Resilience (Psychology), Leadership Training
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Harrell, Melissa B.; Arora, Monika; Bassi, Shalini; Gupta, Vinay K.; Perry, Cheryl L.; Reddy, K. Srinath – Health Education Research, 2016
To test the efficacy of an intervention to reduce tobacco use among youth (10-19 years old) in slum communities in Delhi, India. This community-based cluster-randomized trial included 14 slums composed of purposely built resettlement colonies and adjacent inhabitant-built Jhuggi Jhopris. Youth in the intervention received a 2 year…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intervention, Program Effectiveness, Smoking
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Gumaelius, Lena; Almqvist, Monica; Árnadóttir, Anna; Axelsson, Anders; Conejero, J. Alberto; García-Sabater, José P.; Klitgaard, Lene; Kozma, Cecilia; Maheut, Julien; Marin-Garcia, Juan; Mickos, Henrik; Nilsson, Per-Olof; Norén, Agneta; Pinho-Lopes, Margarida; Prenzel, Manfred; Ray, Johanna; Roxå, Torgny; Voss, Mirjam – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2016
Since the 1990s, the low number of students choosing to study science and technology in higher education has been on the societal agenda and many initiatives have been launched to promote awareness regarding career options. The initiatives particularly focus on increasing enrolment in the engineering programmes. This article describes and compares…
Descriptors: Outreach Programs, Universities, Science Interests, College Programs
Kinders, Mark A.; Pope, Myron L. – Metropolitan Universities, 2016
The University of Central Oklahoma's new strategic plan sought to increase its connection to the emerging Hispanic community in Oklahoma City. Simultaneously, the Greater Oklahoma City Hispanic Chamber of Commerce was seeking a higher education partner. This case study describes resulting new programs for Hispanic students and businesses. The…
Descriptors: Hispanic Americans, School Community Relationship, Partnerships in Education, School Business Relationship
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Chesky, Nataly Z.; Goldstein, Rebecca A. – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2016
This paper attends to the ways in which girls' voices are deployed within news media to support current discourses regarding STEM education. Newspaper reports constitute an important field of cultural production in that they construct a particular reality that contributes to public understandings of girls' lived experiences in and with STEM. Using…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Student Attitudes, Student Experience, News Reporting
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Hill, Kirsten; Reitano, Adrienne; Kowalski, David – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2016
The University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Education (Penn GSE), and the School District of Philadelphia (SDP), have a researcher-practitioner partnership called "Shared Solutions." They consider Shared Solutions to be a hybrid of the "place-based research alliances" and "design research teams" described by…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Educational Research, School Districts, Schools of Education
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Nyet Moi Siew; Henry Goh; Fauziah Sulaiman – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2016
This research was conducted to evaluate the learning experience of Grade Ten students from two Malaysian rural secondary schools that adopted the integration of STEM in an Engineering Design Process (STEM-EDP) approach vis-á-vis an outreach challenge program. A total of 89 students undertook a ten hour program which engaged them in designing and…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Engineering Education, Design, Learning Experience
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Gamze Ozogul; Jana Reisslein; Martin Reisslein – International Journal of Designs for Learning, 2016
Even though engineering outreach to K-12 schools initially seemed to be a simple undertaking, it proved to require complex design solutions related to a variety of issues. The purpose of this design case is to tell the story of our National Science Foundation (NSF) supported engineering outreach project, that took place between the years of…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Kindergarten, Elementary Secondary Education, Computer Assisted Instruction
Osborn, David; Alkezweeny, Jennifer; Kecskes, Kevin – Metropolitan Universities, 2015
In an effort to leverage students' positive community engagement experiences as they transition to and become alumni, Portland State University (PSU) embarked on a pilot "Continuing Engagement Program." This article provides a rationale for this effort, an overview of the programmatic elements, lessons learned, and future engagement…
Descriptors: Alumni, Alumni Associations, Sense of Community, School Community Relationship
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Musacchio, Gemma; Lanza, Tiziana; D'Addezio, Giuliana – Journal of Education and Learning, 2015
The present paper describes an experience of science theatre addressed to children of primary and secondary school, with the main purpose of making them acquainted with a topic, the interior of the Earth, largely underestimated in compulsory school curricula worldwide. A not less important task was to encourage a positive attitude towards natural…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Elementary School Students, Secondary School Students, Natural Disasters
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