The childcare sector holds vital implications for community development. Overcoming barriers to access and affordability requires a nuanced understanding of this complex sector, a requirement that is further complicated by limited data availability. This paper reviews key data sources and uses historical business data to explore and analyze trends…

Classroom conversations, such as those implemented through dialogic and deliberative pedagogies, can help students develop skills for democratic listening, but existent norms and power differences can limit the opportunity for students to use those conversations as a site for transformation. The co-creation of community agreements, however, can…

Professional development and experiential learning opportunities are essential to student success. This work utilizes qualitative content analysis of survey responses to compare students' expectations regarding a learning opportunity at Super Bowl LVII to students' reported outcomes after the event. Open-ended data from an online survey prior to…

This study examines the writing of adolescent Pacific Islander girls who, during a community-based workshop, drafted statements of purpose (SOP) for scholarship applications. Pacific Islander migrants are among the most marginalized residents in Hawai'i. Our project engaged the girls in telling their own stories through writing. Following New…

Faculty Learning Communities (FLCs) offer a collaborative and structured environment for professional development, enabling educators to build their capacity to incorporate service-learning into their teaching practices. This study examines the initial impact of a FLC for institutional awareness and implementation of service-learning at Slippery…

The pivot to online teaching during the pandemic brought new challenges for instructors teaching large classes. In response to instructors' need for additional support with engaging students online, two educational development units collaboratively designed the Teaching Exchange. The Teaching Exchange was a virtual series of sessions on different…

This exploratory qualitative research investigates the roles of migrant learning centres (MLCs) in providing accredited alternative basic education (AABE) for out-of-school migrant children in Thailand. Through document analysis and in-depth interviews with 26 individuals, the study reveals that MLCs in Tak province play proactive roles in the…

Professional learning communities (PLCs) actioned through collaborative action research (CAR) have been found in the literature to be beneficial for both teachers and students. However, previous studies mainly examined teachers' perceived effectiveness of CAR-based PLCs, as well as identified steps and elements involved in such PLCs, either…

Population aging and the migration of young people to urban regions have led to a decline in agricultural knowledge. Nevertheless, the community of practices serves as a social learning platform, enabling the informal exchange of experiences among farmers. This study aims to examine the factors that influence knowledge sharing (KS) in…

This article illustrates how collaborative artistic creation in a world language class can offer multiple cognitive, social, cultural and professional benefits for language learners. An interdisciplinary mural project undertaken in a community college serves as a case study to examine these ideas. The class was co-taught by the authors, a teaching…

The high cost of textbooks creates barriers for students, especially those from underserved backgrounds, such as Black and Hispanic/Latinx/e students. This action research study aimed to reveal how Open Educational Resources (OER), or free, openly licensed materials, could mitigate barriers to success for Black and Hispanic/Latinx/e students. The…

Rural Community Colleges serve as community hubs for their regions and often times provide the only access to higher education for miles around. Like community colleges around the country, rural community colleges also provide access to Students of Color at greater rates than their 4-year university peers. Yet, equity-driven practices in rural…

College students make repeated course enrollment decisions, which are informed by their beliefs and preferences about course and institutional characteristics. Cross-enrollment, an enrollment pattern in which community college students simultaneously take a class at a 4-year college or university while still enrolled in classes at their community…

The learning outcome, "Students will learn to engage with and impact society," is common in curricular frameworks addressing undergraduate sociology education; however, it does not receive adequate coverage compared to other competencies. The lack of attention to this outcome coupled with the tendency to focus heavily on social problems…

Purpose: Community engaged research and learning strategies are considered meaningful methods for universities to demonstrate their critical importance to today's societies. At the same time, it is stressed that not all approaches are equally beneficial, highlighting the need for well-considered design and delivery. This paper aims to outline a…