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Direct linkSophie Rudolph; Eve Mayes; Tebeje Molla; Sophie Chiew; Natasha Abhayawickrama; Netta Maiava; Danielle Villafana; Rosie Welch; Ben Liu; Rachel Couper; Iris Duhn; Al Fricker; Archie Thomas; Menasik Dewanyang; Hayley McQuire; Sophie Hashimoto-Benfatto; Michelle Spisbah; Zach Smith; Tarneen Onus-Browne; Emma Rowe; Joel Windle; Fazal Rizvi – Australian Educational Researcher, 2024
The question of how education research can be 'useful' is an enduring and challenging one. In recent years, this question has been approached by universities through a widespread 'impact' agenda. In this article, we explore the tensions between usefulness and impact and present six stories that reflect on research use with communities. These…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Theory Practice Relationship, School Community Relationship, Research Utilization
Sears, Robin R. – Democracy & Education, 2013
I apply the concept of unalienated recognition as a form of democratic exchange, introduced by Rheingold (2012), to a different educational setting. Through a case study of the School for Field Studies international environmental programs, that are, like Rheingold's study school, field based and community centered, I explore the hypothesis…
Descriptors: School Community Relationship, Democracy, Case Studies, Field Studies
Hayes, Amanda – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2011
The silence regarding Appalachia is mirrored in the relative scarcity of focused studies regarding Appalachian dialect, composition, and classroom issues. Little work has been done exploring the ways the composition classroom, concerned as it is with language and the production of discourse, can affect Appalachian students' linguistic and social…
Descriptors: Language Research, Dialects, Linguistics, Writing (Composition)
Boothby, Neil; Balster, Robert L.; Goldman, Philip; Wessells, Michael G.; Zeanah, Charles H.; Huebner, Gillian; Garbarino, James – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 2012
The 2011 U.S. Government Evidence Summit on Protecting Children Outside of Family Care brought together leading researchers and technical experts to assess the available evidence to inform policies, strategies, and programs relevant to protecting children outside of family care in lower and middle income countries. While child vulnerabilities are…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Evidence, Communities of Practice, Expertise
Wilson, David McKay – Academe, 2010
This article discusses academic freedom that is currently under threat at many public two-year schools, which serve almost one-half of the nation's first-year college students. The growing reliance on part-time faculty exacerbates the problem, with many adjuncts feeling muzzled for fear of losing their jobs. The problem of academic freedom at…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Curriculum Design, Academic Freedom, Community Colleges
Peer reviewedEnomoto, Ernestine K. – Urban Education, 1997
Explores the metaphor proposed by T. Sergiovanni (1992 and following) of school as community, an alternative to conceptualizing school as organization. An extended metaphor, which takes into account organizational aspects, is presented that conceptualizes schools as nested communities. This conceptualization is illustrated through the case study…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Community, Community Characteristics, Community Development
Abukari, Abdulai – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2010
Higher education institutions seem to be becoming increasingly flexible with different functions. Most universities' mission statements involve teaching, research and service, but while the teaching and research missions are clearly defined and located within certain areas of the university activities, service is less clear and more ambiguous,…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Case Studies, Interviews, Institutional Mission
Peer reviewedHorton, Hayward Derrick – Journal of the Community Development Society, 1992
A sociological model of African-American community development, the Black Organizational Autonomy model argues that workable African-American communities have economic autonomy, internally developed and controlled data sources, a focus on African-American history and culture, females in leadership roles, and socially inclusive leadership. (56…
Descriptors: Black Community, Case Studies, Community Development, Females
Littleton, John – Religious Education, 2008
The vision statement of St. Saviour's Anglican Church in the Parish of Glen Osmon reads, "We aim to be a worshipping, caring, learning and serving Christian Community." These four aspects of Christian Community are essential and inter-related. The intention in the first part of this article is to explore the "learning" aspects…
Descriptors: Church Programs, Leadership Responsibility, Spiritual Development, Religious Education
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This publication describes efforts in the United Kingdom (UK) to develop mutually beneficial, collaborative partnerships between businesses and communities that promote digital inclusion (access to information and communication technologies). Case studies of different kinds of relationships are listed, including UK online centers, schools, events…
Descriptors: Business Responsibility, Case Studies, Community Cooperation, Community Coordination
Koerner, Mari E.; Abdul-Tawwab, Najwa – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2006
This is an account of a teacher education program's attempt to connect with a neighboring community in order to better prepare faculty to teach about the urban context in which their preservice teacher education students practice. Taking a feminist perspective, the two authors discuss their goals--the processes of using a community organization to…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Preservice Teachers, Community Organizations, Preservice Teacher Education
Kerensky, Vasil M.; Logsdon, James D. – 1979
In 1976-77, the U.S. Office of Education funded a series of investigations of community education by various organizations. These studies were designed to provide perspectives on community education that were prepared by groups essential to the community education process. This publication introduces the concept of community education as a new…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Community Colleges, Community Education, Community Recreation Programs
Dabrowski, Irene – 1980
This study investigates how 40 working-class women participate as volunteers in the service, political, and social action arenas of their community--Carondelet, on the South Side of St. Louis. The purpose is to show that working-class women who live in transitional areas are capable of politically addressing the urban problems intruding into their…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Case Studies, Citizen Participation, Community Development
Peer reviewedKeith, Novella Z. – Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 1998
Describes an externally funded program that enabled twelve urban elementary schools to expand community outreach by hiring community residents and a program coordinator who worked with service agencies and teachers to develop a wide variety of activities catering to students and neighborhood members. One school's program is profiled. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Community Development, Elementary Education, Program Descriptions
Leaks, Rakeda; Stonehill, Robert M. – Center for Comprehensive School Reform and Improvement, 2008
Districts and schools across the country are looking for ways to adequately meet the needs of newcomers, many of whom are not proficient in English when they arrive in the United States. In fact, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Schools and Staffing Survey reports that nearly 4 million, or 8 percent, of the nation's K-12…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Second Language Learning, Educational Change, Immigrants
