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Direct linkKathleen H. Powell – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2014
Since 2004, I have provided technical assistance to a neighborhood association in a residential, campus-adjacent neighborhood located in a small college town in a geographically isolated coal-mining region of the United States. The neighborhood is shared by year-round residents, most of whom are older adults who have no affiliation with the…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Universities, Attachment Behavior, Community Characteristics
Umphrey, Michael L. – Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2007
An epidemic of disengagement in American high schools is faced as institutions fail to offer meaningful and relevant ways to connect curriculum with students' emerging life stories. These students do not see how schooling, as it is presently constituted, is important to their own developing identities. One solution to this problem is to organize…
Descriptors: High Schools, Outreach Programs, Relevance (Education), Student Attitudes
Saxe, Richard W. – 1975
The purpose of this book is to describe changes in school-community interaction and to suggest appropriate responses by educators in general, and administrators in particular. School community relations are adversely affected by an organizational phenomenon--bureaucracy--and by psychological factors of educators--attitudes, opinions, interests.…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrative Problems, Administrator Attitudes, Community Characteristics
Merz, Carol; Furman, Gail – 1997
The longing for a sense of "community" has become a major theme in recent writings about educational and social issues. An analysis of the potential for creating viable and meaningful community in schools is the focus of this book. Using sociological theory and social analysis, it examines how schools achieve community and explores how…
Descriptors: Community, Community Characteristics, Community Schools, Educational Change
Rowley, Thomas D., Ed.; And Others – 1996
This book addresses the need for research information that can be used as a foundation for rural development policy. Part I deals with the four components of rural development: education (human capital), entrepreneurship, physical infrastructure, and social infrastructure. Part II examines analytic methods of measuring rural development efforts,…
Descriptors: Community Characteristics, Community Development, Community Resources, Economic Development
Parker, Franklin – 1975
Divided into three main sections, this monograph about the Kanawha County textbook controversy deals with lessons drawn from that conflict. In answering the question of what happened, the author begins with events that predated any outward signs of dissent, such as the phasing out of the citizen advisory committee on textbook selection, and…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Board of Education Policy, Board of Education Role, Civil Disobedience
