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Ardoin, Nicole M.; Bowers, Alison W.; Gaillard, Estelle – Environmental Education Research, 2023
Civic engagement is recognized as a critical process to address environmental and other societal issues. To examine the intersection between environmental education and civic engagement, as reported in the peer-reviewed literature, we undertook a systematic mixed studies review to identify environmental education program outcomes related to civic…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Outcomes of Education, Environmental Education, Social Problems
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Kasper, Tomáš; Kasperová, Dana – History of Education, 2018
The first part of the study focuses on the characteristics and analysis of Zlín as an example of a company town. Life in the company town is characterised as a means of forming 'a new man' in Bat'a's Zlín. The second section analyses the aims of worker education in Bat'a's Zlín (in the so-called Bat'a school of work) and highlights the methods and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Municipalities, Community Characteristics, Labor Education
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Brown, Maria – Studies in the Education of Adults, 2020
This paper informs pedagogical development in older adult education. It draws on qualitative data of a longitudinal community-based educational action research study. Informed by critical theory, Freirean and postcolonial literature, the educational initiative comprised a critical and praxis-oriented engagement with generative themes co-identified…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Adult Education, Critical Theory, Nonformal Education
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Deggs, David; Miller, Michael T. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2019
Communities continue to establish, promote, and monitor the educational outcomes of their citizenry through both explicit and implied norms. Community attributes influence the pursuit of education and level of education completed by individual citizens. The influencers within communities can be attributed to common constructs of communities…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Student Needs, Community Characteristics, Educational Attainment