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Direct linkHaeny S. Yoon – Educational Forum, 2024
Young children bring rich social, cultural, and political knowledge to school, cultivated in their homes and communities. This knowledge, ranging from household skills to multilingual practices, is often marginalized in schools that value different norms. Drawing from ethnographic studies in Illinois and New York kindergarten classrooms, this…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Kindergarten, Young Children, Knowledge Level
Download full textAparajita Jaiswal; Muna Sapkota; Laura Starr; Aletha Stahl – International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2024
Developing a professional STEM workforce with a high degree of intercultural competence is essential in today's globalized world.To this end, Higher Education Institutions incorporate reflection to help students make meaning of their learning experiences. In this study, we investigated the development of intercultural and teamwork skills among…
Descriptors: Teamwork, Intercultural Communication, Cultural Awareness, Sense of Community
Kiesa, Abby; Bueso, Leah; Hodgin, Erica; Kahne, Joe – Social Education, 2022
This article shares lessons from committed and inspirational educators from across the country with whom the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE) worked in 2020. Their experiences reinforce that nonpartisan teaching about democracy is possible (i.e., not teaching who to vote for, but rather how the system…
Descriptors: Elections, Teaching Methods, Democracy, Political Attitudes
Woodhouse, Janice Lynn – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This dissertation examines the phenomenon of how communities can effect change in policy and practice to support greater ecological and cultural sustainability. The general purpose of this research is to examine selected local initiatives for ecological and cultural sustainability to better understand the role of adult education in those efforts.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Environmental Education, Sustainable Development, Local Issues
Bista, Krishna; Gaulee, Uttam – Journal of International Students, 2017
This section shares recent dissertations and theses with the "Journal of International Students" readers. There were about 139 graduate dissertations and theses related to the issues and challenges of international students in 2016. The complete versions of these selected dissertations are available in the ProQuest, Michigan-based…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Foreign Students, Content Analysis
Wicks, Pamela – Community & Junior College Libraries, 2011
Virtual environments such as Second Life (SL) may provide a way to connect with today's digital native and increase the readership of the community college student, both in virtual and real world libraries. Many colleges and universities already have a presence in SL. Books and services typically found in a "brick and mortar" library can…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Electronic Libraries, Virtual Classrooms, Internet
Liddle, Gordon P.; And Others – 1966
Described is an action research program in four elementary schools in disadvantaged areas of Quincy, Illinois. This educational improvement effort focused on parent involvement and enrichment during and after school as well as in the summer. Curricular modifications and enrichment included field trips, development of listening skills, puppetry,…
Descriptors: Community Organizations, Community Resources, Curriculum, Disadvantaged Youth
Torres, Maria de los Angeles – Chapin Hall Center for Children, 2006
Concerns about declining political participation in the United States have once again raised the question of how young people get involved in politics. This project focuses on engaged youths and explores the personal trajectories, people and institutions that encouraged them to become engaged with their communities. The report also discusses how…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Local Issues, Stereotypes, Politics
CHILD, ROBERT; LERNER, MANDEL – 1966
A THREE DAY CONFERENCE TRAINED NEW NONPROFESSIONAL STAFF OF THE SHAWNEE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL, AN ANTIPOVERTY AGENCY IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS. TRAINING GOALS WERE TO DEVELOP (1) GREATER AWARENESS OF SELF AND EFFECT ON OTHERS, (2) TEAMWORK SKILLS IN WORKING IN GROUPS, (3) AWARENESS OF SKILLS IN THE HELPING PROCESS, AND (4) PROBLEM SOLVING SKILLS.…
Descriptors: Community Development, Educational Strategies, Force Field Analysis, Interpersonal Competence
Peer reviewedOrtman, Richard E.; Frerichs, Allen H. – College Student Journal, 1979
Occupational and transfer community college students were compared on self-acceptance levels. The transfer students had significantly higher scores than the occupational students as indicated by a one-way analysis of variance. Married students scored significantly higher than transfer and occupational students. (Author)
Descriptors: Age, Community Colleges, Marital Status, Postsecondary Education
South Holland School District 151, IL. – 1975
Thirteen objectives of the program and analyses of each in terms of procedure, evaluation, the status of procedure, and status of the evaluation are listed in this report. The objectives are: the establishment of a community relations program to promote two-way communication between school board, administration, teachers, students, and parents;…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Advisory Committees, Child Advocacy, Cultural Differences
Lindsey, Randall B. – 1971
This paper presents a technical progress report of two programs conducted with funds provided under the Emergency School Assistance Program. One, the Mobile Learning Unit, said to have been designed to measure changes in fourth and fifth grade students' self-concept in a reorganized desegregated school environment, focuses on whether a positive…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Children, Community Information Services, Educational Environment
