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Brent Brodie; Lorna Schwartzentruber; Shawna Teper; Byron Gray – Metropolitan Universities, 2024
This article investigates how strategic community partnerships form the bedrock of successful institutional community engagement activities. In this investigation, these engagements encourage institutional practitioners to consider how truly effective community economic development materializes when the university assumes a reactionary role by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Community Relationship, School Community Programs, Partnerships in Education
David M. Telles-Langdon; Nathan D. Hall – Metropolitan Universities, 2024
Universities recognize they have a civic responsibility to engage and enrich the community in which they reside. This study looks at a community engagement project undertaken at one university that was intended to address significant recreational needs within the community while also furthering academic initiatives. As part of the appeal to…
Descriptors: Universities, Community Involvement, Citizenship Responsibility, Recreational Programs
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Evan Mauro; Kirby Manià; Nick Ubels; Heather Holroyd; Angela Towle; Shannon Murray – Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 2024
This paper describes key discoveries and lessons learned about the practice of reciprocity in community-engaged learning (CEL). We draw from an example of a multi-partner, multi-year CEL project that addresses a community-identified priority to access jargon-free research findings about their community. Our project benefits community members in an…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, School Community Relationship, Neighborhoods, College Freshmen
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Wade B. Kelly; Lisa M. Given – Studies in Higher Education, 2024
Higher education's focus is shifting to include societal impact alongside academic excellence. While community-engaged scholarship has a long history, many initiatives focus on individual researchers or institutional practices, without accounting for disciplinary and geopolitical contexts. The Community Engagement for Impact (CEFI) Framework and…
Descriptors: Social Change, Community Involvement, Change Strategies, Foreign Countries
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Groulx, Mark; Nowak, Nadia; Levy, Kristin; Booth, Annie – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2021
Purpose: This paper aims to examine the broad concept of university-community partnerships as it applies to creating sustainability initiatives. The benefits of university-community partnerships are increasingly recognized, and this paper offers direct insights from community stakeholders on the principles, functions and activities they see as…
Descriptors: Community Needs, School Community Relationship, Universities, Stakeholders
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Michael Holden; Paisley Worthington; Michelle Searle; Cheryl Mak – Experiential Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, 2024
Educators, researchers, and institutions have long recognized experiential education's value for fostering ongoing learning and skill development. In recent years, experiential education has gained increased traction in higher education, based on recognized need for graduates to encounter and actively reflect on lived experiences in various…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Experiential Learning, Doctoral Students, Student Attitudes
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Matthew Dunleavy; Susan Andrews; Carla VanBeselaere; Christelinda Laureijs; Shannon Goguen; Denise Roy-Loar – International Journal for Students as Partners, 2024
Launched in 2021 by a team of undergraduate students, university faculty, associate researchers, and community partners collaborating as genuine equals in a diverse team, the Together Time Story Sacks intergenerational literacies program forms part of an ongoing action research project aimed at understanding and addressing barriers that residents…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Literacy, Intergenerational Programs, Undergraduate Students
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Eloho Ifinedo; Diane Burt – Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2025
Purpose: Service-learning (SL) is a widely accepted pedagogy that can enrich the learning experience for students in higher education while they apply their skills in a meaningful community service. This research is part of a larger project that aimed to motivate educational achievement among youths living in a priority neighborhood through SL.…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Information Technology, Computer Science Education, Community Centers
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Grant Bruno; Titus A. Chan; Lonnie Zwaigenbaum; Emily Coombs; The Indigenous Relations Circle; David Nicholas – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2024
Currently there is a severe lack of research on autism and Indigenous people in Canada. This scoping review explores this literature gap and assesses the same literature from an Indigenous perspective. Scoping reviews are an effective means to explore the literature in a specific area, in this case, autism and Indigenous people in Canada. We…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Indigenous Populations, Canada Natives
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Sandra Smeltzer; Amala Poli; Kristina Axenova – Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2024
This research paper explores the relationship between compassion, meaning-making, and curricular community engaged learning (CEL) in a university setting. We contend that CEL, as a key form of community-focused experiential learning (EL), can play an important role in helping address the wellbeing of students, faculty, and staff by providing…
Descriptors: Altruism, Constructivism (Learning), Community Education, Community Involvement
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Christina Tjandra – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2024
This study investigates the implications of engaging plurilingual children in creative multilingual placemaking practices on their language awareness and sense of belonging. Children participated in carefully designed class activities, engaging in tasks focused on reflecting on their own identities, the community's, and the neighbourhood's,…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Creativity, Metalinguistics, Sense of Community
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Gavin R. McCormack; Calli Naish; Jennie Petersen; Patricia K. Doyle-Baker – Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, 2024
Play encourages physical and social activity creativity, and risk-taking. However, unstructured and risky play is on the decline. Our qualitative study explored the perspectives of Play Ambassadors, who facilitated a community-based loose parts play intervention ('play hubs') in Calgary parks during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using semi-structured…
Descriptors: Community, Parks, Intervention, COVID-19
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Elliott-Groves, Emma; Meixi – Journal for the Study of Education and Development, 2022
Indigenous Knowledge Systems and their underlying ethical qualities guide social interaction and the process by which Indigenous children learn what it means to be a person within family and community life. Using the Learning by Observing and Pitching In (LOPI) framework as a starting point, this paper explores a case study of a death in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Indigenous Knowledge, Ethics
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Roger Pizarro Milian; David Zarifa; Rod Missaghian – Higher Education Policy, 2024
Since 2011, the Ontario provincial government has made significant investments into improving the efficiency of vertical transfer--from community colleges to university--within its post-secondary education system. During this period, local policy analysts have repeatedly emphasized the need to account for geography when developing strategies to…
Descriptors: Regional Characteristics, Transfer Students, Foreign Countries, College Enrollment
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Amon, Emily; Hill, Stephen; Blake, Jim; Gage, Marie – Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 2020
We evaluate how the U-Links Centre for Community-Based Research (U-Links), a nonprofit organization that brokers research for community-based organizations with postsecondary institutions in Haliburton County, Ontario, has impacted this rural region of Ontario. Our approach uses contribution analysis and realist evaluation as layered tactics…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Program Effectiveness, Rural Areas, Community Organizations
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