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Greenberg, David; Verma, Nandita; Dillman, Keri-Nicole; Chaskin, Robert – MDRC, 2010
Distressed urban neighborhoods face challenges on multiple fronts, but most efforts to confront these problems work in isolation of one another. The New Communities Program (NCP) is an exception, helping selected Chicago neighborhoods develop partnerships to address challenges involving employment, education, housing, and safety in a…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Urban Areas, Poverty Areas, Neighborhood Improvement
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Yuwawutto, Sauwapa; Smitinont, Thitapha; Charoenanong, Numtip; Yokakul, Nattaka; Chatratana, Sonchai; Zawdie, Girma – Industry and Higher Education, 2010
This paper examines the university-industry-government relationship as a mechanism for enhancing the efficiency and competitiveness of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The case of a community enterprise producing dried banana products in the north of Thailand is used to demonstrate the significance of the Triple Helix model for business…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Small Businesses, Community Programs, Foreign Countries
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Ozanne, William I. – Comparative Education, 2010
Faith ethos education has subjective elements in it that are elusive to planners and administrators of national and international systems. This paper looks at how Sikhs, a minority group both in India and in other countries to which they have migrated manage to retain their faith-based education programmes successfully and yet relate to the…
Descriptors: Community Development, Foreign Countries, Minority Groups, Spiritual Development
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Flage, Lynette; Vettern, Rachelle; Schmidt, Mark; Eighmy, Myron – Journal of Extension, 2010
Communities benefit from meaningful involvement by individuals of all ages, but adults don't always perceive youth as legitimate, crucial contributors to community decision-making processes. The purpose of the study reported here was to determine if adults who participated with youth in the Horizons program changed their attitudes, opinions, and…
Descriptors: Opinions, Leadership Training, Behavior Change, Attitude Change
Coote, Anna – Adults Learning, 2010
The UK's coalition government wants to build a "Big Society." The Prime Minister says "we are all in this together" and building it is the responsibility of every citizen as well as every government department. The broad vision is welcome, but everything depends on how the vision is translated into policy and practice. The…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Politics of Education, Policy Analysis, Public Policy
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Bell, Shannon Elizabeth; York, Richard – Rural Sociology, 2010
Economic changes and the machinations of the treadmill of production have dramatically reduced the number of jobs provided by extractive industries, such as mining and timber, in the United States and other affluent nations in the post-World War II era. As the importance of these industries to national, regional, and local economies wanes,…
Descriptors: Fuels, Ideology, Content Analysis, Industrialization
Guglani, Laura – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Spanish is being lost at an alarming rate in the United States, for most immigrant families within two to three generations of arrival. Previous research indicates that the third generation of Hispanic immigrants typically becomes English monolingual (Veltman 2000; Appel & Muysken 1987; Fishman 1978). This investigation examines the role…
Descriptors: Economic Status, Bilingual Education, Child Language, Immigrants
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Kowino, O. J.; Agak, J. O., Obiero-Owino, C. E.; Ong'unya, R. O. – Educational Research and Reviews, 2011
Previous research and document evidence obtainable in popular media has consistently reported that Kenyan students' moral standing and general conduct in the wider society does not reflect acquisition and practice of values learnt through the teaching or Christian Religious Education (CRE) at the form four level. This has caused complaints among…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Religious Education, Christianity, Moral Values
Hutcheson, Scott – Illinois Institute for Rural Affairs, 2008
"ED 2.0" is a second generation of civic communities all aimed at facilitating greater levels of economic prosperity through innovation, collaboration, and the linking and leveraging of resources. This report examines the "ED 2.0" model. It briefly describes some of the tools and applications used for economic transformation…
Descriptors: Innovation, Economic Development, Economics, Cooperation
Neugebauer, Roger – Exchange: The Early Childhood Leaders' Magazine Since 1978, 2009
Having worked in the early childhood field for over three decades, the author has seen a lot of changes: The supply of child care services has increased ten-fold and the public respect for early childhood services has risen nearly as much. Despite these changes, certain challenges for these field have not been successfully addressed: Compensation…
Descriptors: Community Development, Young Children, Child Care, Early Childhood Education
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Ryan, Sherry D.; Magro, Michael J.; Sharp, Jason H. – Journal of Information Technology Education, 2011
Social networking sites have seen tremendous growth and are widely used around the world. Nevertheless, the use of social networking sites in educational contexts is an under explored area. This paper uses a qualitative methodology, autoethnography, to investigate how social networking sites, specifically Facebook[TM], can help first semester…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Doctoral Programs, Social Networks, Web Sites
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Ravensbergen, Frances; Vanderplaat, Madine – McGill Journal of Education, 2010
This paper explores the use of "learning circles" as one form of knowledge production in social action research. It reports on a project that used learning circles as a setting within which to increase the engagement of people living with low income in developing strategies for the reduction and elimination of poverty in Canada. It…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Low Income Groups, Action Research, Social Action
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Pal, Sarmistha – Economics of Education Review, 2010
The paper argues that access to public infrastructure plays a crucial role on the presence of private schools in a community, as it could not only minimise the cost of production, but also ensure a high return to private investment. Results using community, school and child/household-level PROBE survey data from five north Indian states provide…
Descriptors: State Schools, Private Schools, Economics, Access to Education
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Ng-He, Carol – Teaching Artist Journal, 2010
Community development through the arts is a process of creating bridges between people. The education and training for student-teaching-artists confronts them with real-world challenges and the need for sensitivity as they move in and out of many different communities. In this article, the author, an interdisciplinary artist, describes an…
Descriptors: Community Development, Art, Student Teachers, Artists
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Clover, Darlene E. – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2010
This feminist content analysis of selective adult education journals and conference proceedings draws on feminist aesthetic theory to develop a deeper understanding of women adult education scholars' work with/in the arts. Four major categories identified were community cultural development, aesthetic civic engagement and knowledge mobilization,…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Feminism, Art Education, Adult Education
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