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Peer reviewedRao, Pamela; Arcury, Thomas A.; Quandt, Sara A. – Journal of Environmental Education, 2004
Involving students in community-based participatory research is a useful mechanism for engaging the community and helping it build future capacity. This article describes student involvement in a series of community-based environmental health research projects with migrant and seasonal farmworkers in North Carolina. High school, undergraduate,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Participation, Cultural Context, Seasonal Laborers
Peer reviewedHarrison, Patricia – California Agriculture, 1994
Examines how officials in Arvin, a small rural California community, developed a family housing project to reduce the housing shortage among agricultural workers. Suggested guidelines for similar programs include assessing area needs; matching housing types to needs; maintaining affordability; supervising construction; consulting with local…
Descriptors: Family Programs, Government Role, Housing, Housing Deficiencies
Direct linkHill, Roberta; Capper, Phillip; Wilson, Ken; Whatman, Richard; Wong, Karen – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2007
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to describe how, from 2004-2006, a New Zealand research team experimented with the "change laboratory" learning process to create a new method of government policy development and implementation, referred to as "practice-making". The apple industry in Hawke's Bay was chosen because of the…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Industry, Transformative Learning, Learning Processes
Peer reviewedTheobald, Paul; Donato, Ruben – Peabody Journal of Education, 1990
Chronicles experiences of depression era "Okies," juxtaposes them against experiences of Mexican Americans, and illuminates the diminution of agricultural labor in an industrializing society. Schooling for those groups was legitimized by their low occupational status. When economic circumstances improved, whites escaped from migrant…
Descriptors: Agricultural Occupations, Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education
Wallace, George N. – Small School Forum, 1980
The article discusses potential remedies for three major issues that prevent seasonal agricultural workers from maintaining the kind of working and living conditions which lead to cohesive cumulative social experience: undocumented workers; worsening living and working environments; and societal attitudes regarding agricultural labor and its…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Family Life, Foreign Workers, Group Unity
Peer reviewedChi, Peter S. K. – Rural Sociology, 1986
Examines 218 black migrant farm workers to determine applicability of Index of General Well-Being, compare level of mental health with that of the general population, and assess and identify variations in subjective well-being. Finds lifestyle, social support, housing conditions, age, sex, and education influence subjective well-being. Discusses…
Descriptors: Black Employment, Blacks, Environment, Health Needs
Peer reviewedHampton, Steve; And Others – Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 1995
Examines effects of socioeconomic status, school funding, English proficiency, and Latino population concentration on achievement scores of students in grades 3, 6, and 12 in 66 rural California school districts. Performance on the California Assessment Program was predicted primarily by parental socioeconomic status, and, unexpectedly, improved…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Anglo Americans, De Facto Segregation, Educational Attainment
