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Alisha Butler; Ariel Bierbaum; Erin O'Keefe – Urban Education, 2024
This study leverages data collected from a study of Baltimore's 21st Century School Buildings Program to understand the potential of a school facilities investment to catalyze community development. We leverage a school-community partnership typology to examine partnerships at 21CSBP schools in three neighborhoods. We found that schools provided…
Descriptors: Community Schools, Community Development, Educational Facilities, Partnerships in Education
Saerom Ahn; Gyeongmi Gi; Sonya N. Martin – Asia-Pacific Science Education, 2023
Community gardens offer valuable educational and social benefits, contributing to enhanced environmental learning and community building. To expand these opportunities and support community gardens' objectives, we emphasize the necessity of establishing specific structures that facilitate gardeners' practices. Investigating a Korean community as a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Community Development, Gardening, Environmental Education
Moschen, Suane A.; Macke, Janaina; Bebber, Suélen; Benetti Correa da Silva, Marcelo – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2019
Purpose: The aims of this study is to put on the agenda discussions concerning the approach of sustainable goals and indicators, in terms of how they relate to each other and how to list their importance within a network of contemporary city management. From the millennium objectives experience, UN has launched the continuity of the development…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Community Development, City Government, Urban Areas
Hecht, Marijke; Nelson, Taiji – Environmental Education Research, 2021
In this paper, we describe an informal science program where specific program elements were designed to support youth development of a 21st century naturalist identity, which we call out as an important subtype of environmental and scientific identity. As part of a research-practice partnership, we conducted a case study of a teen youth program…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Place Based Education, Environmental Education, Science Education
Karlos L. Marshall – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This dissertation in practice examines the absence of an advocacy framework for Black placemakers in southwest Springfield neighborhoods seeking to transform vacant spaces into vibrant pocket parks, green spaces, and community gardens. This critical community-based participatory research addresses inadequate public policies, resources, and…
Descriptors: Parks, Public Policy, Neighborhood Improvement, Community Development
Adedokun, Mary Olufunke; Adeyemo, Comfort Wuraola; Agboola, Babajide Gabriel – Commission for International Adult Education, 2018
Every country of the world including Nigeria needs to imbibe the idea of innovative technology in a bid to sustain cities and communities with a view to raising the standards of living of the citizens and attending to the many challenges facing cities and communities. These challenges make it extremely difficult or impossible to fix socio-economic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Education, Role of Education, Sustainable Development
Wang, Qianran – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2019
This article introduces Kominkan and its practice on Japanese social education and how it facilitates Japanese adult education and lifelong learning in local communities. Historically, social education was understood as all education that promotes social development and societal progress. Kominkan, as Japanese social education institutions for…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Adult Learning, Lifelong Learning, Self Determination
Obetta, Chukwuemeka K.; Oreh, Catherine I. – Africa Education Review, 2017
Utilisation of community management strategies is an approach to governance that is based on community and organisational involvement. Communities with development projects have formed community projects management committees (CPMCs) that are encouraged to adopt the community management strategy in the planning and financing of community…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Community Development, Program Administration, Program Development
Bruna, Katherine Richardson; McNelly, Carla A.; Rongerude, Jane – Ethnography and Education, 2020
Linguists understand metaphors to be shortcuts to an individual's tacit knowledge about the world. As ethnographers and planners building a university-school partnership and seeking to understand residents' perceptions of their urban neighbourhood, attention to use of metaphor allowed us insight into an insider's mental model of who is in the…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Place Based Education, College School Cooperation, Needs Assessment
Tamura, Eileen H. – History of Education Quarterly, 2017
During the mid-1960s, the War on Poverty ushered in a change in outlook on the poor and stimulated Neighborhood House (a social service agency that began as a settlement house) to focus on educative, community-building initiatives. Yet ironically, while staffers offered educational programs for residents, they were themselves becoming educated.…
Descriptors: Educational History, Poverty Programs, Neighborhoods, Housing
Larson, Joanne; Hanny, Courtney; Duckles, Joyce; Pham, Hoang; Moses, Robert; Moses, George – Pedagogies: An International Journal, 2017
Building on a long-term university/community research partnership, this article examines how different ways of conceptualizing, interpreting, and producing murals impacted how an urban community saw itself. Using a participatory action research design, university researchers worked alongside community researchers to ethnographically document the…
Descriptors: School Community Relationship, Partnerships in Education, Action Research, Participatory Research
Annie E. Casey Foundation, 2015
The Oliver community, only a couple of miles northeast of the city's business core, is just a sliver of East Baltimore that could be easily overlooked. Once a stable neighborhood filled with sturdy brick row houses, thriving churches and small businesses, Oliver declined--along with much of the city--over the course of several decades, beginning…
Descriptors: Urban Areas, Urban Renewal, Cooperative Planning, Agency Cooperation
Walker, Laurie A.; East, Jean F. – Metropolitan Universities, 2018
Laurie A. Walker, the 2017 recipient of the Ernest A. Lynton Award for the Scholarship of Engagement, is an Associate Professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Montana. Together with her co-author, Dr. Jean F. East, Professor in the Graduate School of Social Work at the University of Denver, they have raised, in this piece, an…
Descriptors: Philanthropic Foundations, Urban Universities, Neighborhoods, Urban Renewal
Yarnit, Martin – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2015
During the 1990s, the UK Learning City Network was a large and influential movement with government support, the most significant national body of its kind anywhere. Yet, less than a decade later, it was in decline and now no longer exists. But while few UK towns or cities any longer use the term "learning city", the notion lives on as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Urban Areas, Community Development, Urban Renewal
Valli, Linda; Stefanski, Amanda; Jacobson, Reuben – Urban Education, 2016
School-community partnerships are currently in the forefront of place-based urban reform efforts. But the literature on these partnerships indicates a variety of models that require different commitments and resources. Through a close review of the literature, we developed a typology of four partnership categories organized from the least to the…
Descriptors: School Community Relationship, Partnerships in Education, Literature Reviews, Grounded Theory