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Yep, Kathleen S. – Metropolitan Universities, 2014
Interactions between universities and surrounding communities have the potential to create empowering education through community engagement. Innovative "town/gown" relationships such as multigenerational learning communities with immigrant communities may foster positive student learning outcomes while at the same time strengthen local…
Descriptors: Intergenerational Programs, Immigrants, Adult Education, Community Education
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Chen, Pearl; Hernandez, Anthony; Dong, Jane – Journal of Urban Learning, Teaching, and Research, 2015
This paper presents an interdisciplinary research project that studies the impact of collaborative project-based learning (CPBL) on the development of self-efficacy of students from various ethnic groups in an undergraduate senior-level computer networking class. Grounded in social constructivist and situated theories of learning, the study…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Student Projects, Cooperative Learning, Self Efficacy
Hudson, Sheila A. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Each year in the United States, thousands of undocumented Latina/o immigrant college students face a variety of challenges as they negotiate postsecondary institutions and cultural landscapes that are predominantly fashioned by traditional American values about race, class, and immigration status that have shaped-and continue to influence-our…
Descriptors: Undocumented Immigrants, Hispanic American Students, Educational Experience, College Students