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State Reforms Threaten Remote Community Life
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Kirby, Angela M. – Ethnography and Education, 2011
This paper reports on an ethnographic study of administrators, faculty, parents and community members in one remote Michigan school district. The purpose of the study is to describe and explain how Michigan's educational reform perspective--arguably similar to the education reform perspectives of many states--encountered the educational…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Educational Change, Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation
Homeless in God's Country: Coping Strategies and Felt Experiences of the Rural Homeless
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Hilton, Timothy; DeJong, Cornell – Journal of Ethnographic & Qualitative Research, 2010
This study examines coping behaviors and felt experiences of homeless adults in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Data from in-depth interviews with 55 homeless adults reveal 5 general coping pattern groups: shelter users, campers, couch hoppers, mixed users, and circumstantial homeless. Homeless adults within each group experienced similar levels of…
Descriptors: Homeless People, Coping, Disadvantaged Environment, Rural Development
Urban Shrinkage as a Performance of Whiteness: Neoliberal Urban Restructuring, Education, and Racial Containment in the Post-Industrial, Global Niche City
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Pedroni, Thomas C. – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2011
Although Detroit is not a centre of global finance, and plays a declining role in global production, it nevertheless participates in the present remediation of the relationship between cities and the globe. Manoeuvring to reposition the city as the global hub of mobility technology, metropolitan Detroit's neoliberal leadership advances particular…
Descriptors: Urban Education, Municipalities, Political Attitudes, Economic Development
Developing a Measure of Community Well-Being Based on Perceptions of Impact in Various Life Domains
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Sirgy, M. Joseph; Widgery, Robin N.; Lee, Dong-Jin; Yu, Grace B. – Social Indicators Research, 2010
A new measure of community well-being is developed based on the notion that community residents perceive the quality-of-life (QOL) impact of community services and conditions in various life domains (e.g., family, social, leisure, health, financial, cultural, consumer, work, spiritual, and environmental domains). These perceptions influence…
Descriptors: Community Services, Life Satisfaction, Questionnaires, Test Construction
Creating and Sustaining Authentic Partnerships with Community in a Systemic Model
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Barnes, Jessica V.; Altimare, Emily L.; Farrell, Patricia A.; Brown, Robert E.; Burnett, C. Richard, III; Gamble, LaDonna; Davis, James – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2009
This article presents the unique approach to university-community partnerships developed and practiced at Michigan State University (MSU). We have established a model of campus-community partnerships that builds a wide-reaching system of networks connecting the university to communities. Our approach is "developmental",…
Descriptors: School Community Relationship, Partnerships in Education, Group Dynamics, School Community Programs
A Historical Analysis of Desegregation and Racism in a Racially Polarized Region: Implications for the Historical Construct, a Diversity Problem, and Transforming Teacher Education toward Culturally Relevant Pedagogy
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Hill, K. Dara – Urban Education, 2009
This study chronicles the historical divisions of race and class between Detroit and its suburban neighbor as an explanation for current tensions in the communities and schools. This analysis poses implications for educational apartheid and stark disparities between urban and suburban boundaries and consequent discomfort among practitioners when…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Suburban Schools, Racial Bias, School Desegregation