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Pollock, Della – Quarterly Journal of Speech, 2010
The author recently attended a symposium on engaged scholarship and activism. Folks in attendance were inspired. The author was the lone holdout for despair. Perhaps the author's expectations were skewed but, as impressive as the presentations were, she could not help but feel that she was seeing and hearing that "engaged scholarship" happened…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Integrity, Scholarship, Activism
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Rooney, Donna; Rhodes, Carl; Boud, David – Studies in the Education of Adults, 2010
Noting the ever-increasing encroachment of discourses and practices from the private sector on public education providers, this paper argues that such organizations exist within competing sets of differences that seek to define and fix the meaning of "education" and "business". We report on fieldwork conducted in an adult…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Community Colleges, College Administration, Public Education
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Goldman, Karen L.; Cardell, Melanie – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2013
Relevance is discussed in light of 21st c. communication skills and relevance. How do these areas impact both the face-to-face and online candidates in the MAT and MAED programs to positively impact P-12 students? Relevance theory and communication in 21st c. is clarified for working in both face-to-face and online learning environments leading…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Relevance (Education), Communication Skills, Conventional Instruction
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Compton-Lilly, Catherine; Gregory, Eve – Language Arts, 2013
This column features two prominent literacy scholars, Catherine Compton-Lilly and Eve Gregory. They discuss their recent research studies in various contexts and describe the reciprocal relationships between school, home, and community literacy practices.
Descriptors: School Community Relationship, Family School Relationship, Literacy Education, Language Arts
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Cousins, J. Bradley; Whitmore, Elizabeth; Shulha, Lyn – American Journal of Evaluation, 2013
In this article, we critique two recent theoretical developments about collaborative inquiry in evaluation--using logic models as a means to understand theory, and efforts to compartmentalize versions of collaborative inquiry into discrete genres--as a basis for considering future direction for the field. We argue that collaborative inquiry in…
Descriptors: Stakeholders, Models, Educational Principles, Inquiry
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Moye, Johnny J. – Technology and Engineering Teacher, 2013
Many vocational education, technology education, and now technology and engineering education leaders have made their mark on their profession. Their legacy is something that members of the profession enjoy and have a responsibility to continue and build upon. This is the third in a series of articles entitled The Legacy Project, which focuses on…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Engineering Education, Technology Education, Leaders
Fulwood, Sam, III – Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2012
In an age of increasing pressures on the future workforce, the Presidents' Round Table, a network of African-American community college presidents and chief executives, seeks to meet the demand for supplying and training the next generation of educated employees for the evolving job picture. Among its varied goals, the Round Table works to empower…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Presidents, African American Teachers, Higher Education
Taylor, Carol – Adults Learning, 2012
In Adult Learners' Week last year there was a first-time national award, sponsored by Pearson, for the Adult Apprentice of the Year. There were 81 nominees from across the age range and from a multitude of jobs. Staff at NIACE were keen to find out more about their stories so they analysed their nominations, asked for more information and…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Students, Self Esteem, Community Programs
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Reppucci, N. Dickon – Journal of Community Psychology, 2012
Seymour was a renaissance man: widely read in not only psychology but also anthropology, sociology, philosophy, economics, political science, and most especially history. Seymour taught the author the value of being historically informed, which has been an invaluable tool ever since. Seymour had a way of conceptualizing and reformulating whatever…
Descriptors: Social Action, Social Change, Social Problems, Public Policy
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Munck, Ronaldo – Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 2010
Can civic engagement become a "core business" of the contemporary university, or is it an attractive "add-on" that is not affordable in the current economic climate? Contemporary universities often play an important role in local community development and, as such, have the opportunity to develop civic engagement strategies to…
Descriptors: Community Development, Citizenship, Citizen Participation, Global Approach
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Gibbs, Graham – International Journal for Academic Development, 2013
Educational development has changed in many ways over the last 40?years and the International Consortium for Educational Development has highlighted the sheer variety of practices by bringing together educational developers from countries where activities differ markedly. These reflections identify the wide range of foci of attention that are…
Descriptors: Reflection, Educational Development, Educational Change, Educational Practices
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Sullivan, Patrick; Nielsen, David – College English, 2013
Community colleges have been engaged for the last sixty years in providing open access to public higher education to anyone with a high school diploma. Recently, disappointing success rates for developmental students have driven some colleges to reduce or restrict access to college based on standardized test scores. The operative phrase in most of…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, Achievement Rating, Transitional Programs, Developmental Studies Programs
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Gualtieri, Karen P. – College and University, 2011
The author never planned to work at a college, but she finds she is vice president of student development at a community college; she served previously as assistant to the dean of academic services, as registrar, and as dean of enrollment management. She started her career in health care administration, and her master's was in public…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Enrollment Management, Student Development, Administrators
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Enfield, Mark; Stasz, Bird – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2011
Reflection and Communities of Practice are common constructs in teacher education. Co-teaching is often seen as beneficial, yet teacher education students rarely have experiences being co-taught. Thus, reflection, communities of practice, and co-teaching, deserve careful consideration in designing teacher education learning experiences. Based on…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Reflective Teaching, Communities of Practice, Team Teaching
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Loertscher, Jennifer – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2011
The science teaching community is currently in the midst of a major shift from traditional, lecture-based teaching approaches to student-centered approaches that emphasize inquiry, cooperative learning, and development of a broad range of transferrable skills. These changes demand substantial curricular reform. One way to support the collective…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Cooperative Learning, Educational Change, Biochemistry
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