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Fred Brooks; Gloria Claudio – Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 2024
This article documents how an MSW student in an introductory community practice course took her class assignment and over the course of two years revitalized, democratized, and transformed a sclerotic, corporate-run Home Owners Association (HOA). While the community analysis assignment required the student to interview six of her neighbors, the…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Masters Programs, Social Work, Neighborhoods
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Suzanne Perea Burns; Jaclyn K. Schwartz; Rochelle J. Mendonca; Qussai M. Obiedat; Roger O. Smith – Journal of Occupational Therapy Education, 2023
Limited research informs the implementation of web-based and mobile learning (mLearning) protocols for the assessment of public building accessibility in occupational therapy graduate students. This study tested the feasibility of a self-paced protocol designed to teach students how to evaluate community environment accessibility. Students across…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Masters Programs, Occupational Therapy, Online Courses
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Eir-Anne Edgar – English Journal, 2020
In this article, the author discusses how teachers can develop empathy in students through reading and writing about literature, which contributes to their development as citizens in a global community. By choosing texts that trigger empathic reactions, English teachers can help students better understand others' experiences with oppression and…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Citizenship Education, Empathy, Teaching Methods
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da Cruz, Cynthia Gordon – Review of Higher Education, 2018
Community-engaged scholarship (CES) is frequently recommended as a postsecondary practice for producing knowledge to address real-world issues and support the public good. But CES has multiple meanings, and understandings overlap with similar terms, such as publicly engaged scholarship. I draw upon recommendations in the field to propose an…
Descriptors: Scholarship, Educational Practices, Educational History, Best Practices
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Arrieta, Martha I.; Fisher, Leevones; Shaw, Thomas; Bryan, Valerie; Hudson, Andrea; Hansberry, Shantisha; Eastburn, Sasha; Freed, Christopher R.; Shelley-Tremblay, Shannon; Hanks, Roma Stovall; Washington-Lewis, Cynthia; Roussel, Linda; Dagenais, Paul A.; Icenogle, Marjorie; Slagle, Michelle L.; Parker, L. Lynette; Crook, Errol – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2017
Although there is strong support for community engagement and community-based participatory research (CBPR) from public health entities, medical organizations, and major grant-funding institutions, such endeavors often face challenges within academic institutions. Fostering the interest, skills, and partnerships to undertake participatory research…
Descriptors: Participatory Research, Public Health, School Community Programs, Partnerships in Education
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Dymski, Gary A. – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2017
This paper reflects on the experience of the 1999-2002 minority pipeline program (MPP) at the University of California, Riverside. With support from the American Economic Association, the MPP identified students of color interested in economics, let them explore economic issues affecting minority communities, and encouraged them to consider…
Descriptors: Outreach Programs, Economics Education, Minority Group Students, Community Resources
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Levinson, Samantha G.; Caldwell, Keith; Petracchi, Helen E.; Wexler, Sandra; Engel, Rafael – Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 2016
Community assessment is a strategy commonly taught to social work students to identify a community's strengths and challenges. This article describes the value of using video documentary as part of a community assessment assignment. We identify the advantages of using video documentary in the assessment process and the reporting of findings. We…
Descriptors: Assignments, Documentaries, Multimedia Instruction, Multimedia Materials
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Shafer, Gregory – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2016
The community college is an excellent place for the creation of a special, more empowering learning context. Unlike the university, where students are supposed to adjust to the world of scholarly erudition, the community college is the crazy academic brother that has the freedom to be different and to liberate students to build upon their own…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Context Effect, Culturally Relevant Education, School Community Relationship
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Kim, Minsung – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2018
The paper investigates the effects of a project-based community participation course in which students chose research topics relevant to a local community. Specifically, the students undertook the following projects: (1) creating a virtual 3D model of a local government office, (2) creating interactive digitized versions of mountain trails using…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Student Projects, Action Research, Participatory Research
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Rutledge, Lorelei; LeMire, Sarah – Public Services Quarterly, 2016
As more students, faculty, and staff from traditionally underrepresented groups enter universities and colleges, academic libraries must find ways to reach out to these groups in order to better meet their unique educational needs. In this article, librarians from two large public universities describe how they used data about their communities to…
Descriptors: Demography, Outreach Programs, Academic Libraries, Minority Group Students
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Ingman, Benjamin C. – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2016
This autoethnography provides a description and thematic illustration of the student experience of a community-based research (CBR) course and partnership. Through evaluating personal experiences with CBR, the author identified three qualities of meaningful CBR experiences: trust, indeterminacy, and emotion. These qualities are explored, and…
Descriptors: Student Experience, Ethnography, Partnerships in Education, Trust (Psychology)
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Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2019
This paper presents the observations and reflections of four faculty members who developed experiential online learning pathways for students in diverse professional programs. In relation to programmatic expectations of Nursing, Education and Business, the challenges and opportunities for experiential online learning design are discussed. In…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Experiential Learning, Professional Education, Undergraduate Students
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Clothey, Rebecca A. – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2016
This article employs Yosso's framework of "community cultural wealth" to explore the ways in which educated Uyghurs, one of China's 56 officially recognized ethnic groups, build on social networks like family and friends to improve their own social standing and contribute to the benefit of their communities. Through Yosso's lens, ethnic…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Community Resources, Community Study, Cultural Background
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Dorner, Lisa M.; Kim, Sujin; Floros, Alice; Mujanovic, Midheta – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2017
Skills developed through qualitative research and community partnerships can be essential for developing education students' cultural competency and understandings about diverse student populations. Toward this end, we developed a qualitative "service-research" project in a teacher education course focused on child development, whereby…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Interpersonal Competence, Competency Based Teacher Education, Undergraduate Students
Dolgon, Corey, Ed.; Mitchell, Tania D., Ed.; Eatman, Timothy K., Ed. – Cambridge University Press, 2017
With contributions from leading experts across disciplinary fields, this book explores best practices from the field's most notable researchers, as well as important historically based and politically focused challenges to a field whose impact has reached an important crossroads. The comprehensive and powerfully critical analysis considers the…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Best Practices, Teaching Methods, Educational Practices