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Direct linkGray, Sharon R.; Graham, Mark A. – Journal of Museum Education, 2007
The human condition in the post-modern world is increasingly nomadic. A sense of displacement and alienation is pervasive. Schools emphasize abstracted knowledge removed from the experience of students. Many people feel detached from the places where they live and have no particular sense of belonging or responsibility toward their communities.…
Descriptors: Art Education, Museums, Local History, Heritage Education
Decker, Larry E.; Decker, Virginia A. – 1988
Today's schools are entering a second wave of reform in response to changing demographics, public demand for accountability, and societal changes expanding the traditional time frame for learning. To meet these challenges, schools need help through home and community involvement. This book offers seven strategies illustrated by success stories…
Descriptors: Accountability, Case Studies, Community Involvement, Community Relations
Smithers, John; Joseph, Alun E.; Armstrong, Matthew – Journal of Rural Studies, 2005
In North America and elsewhere it is frequently asserted that changes in rural society have led to an economic and social "decoupling" of agriculture from the wider rural community. Casual analysis of contemporary media reporting and popular discourse would suggest that interactions between the two spheres are as often characterized by…
Descriptors: Rural Farm Residents, Rural Population, Community Relations, Comparative Analysis
Reichman, Michela – New Directions for Institutional Advancement, 1980
In the early 1970s neighborhood movements developed around the concept of community integrity. As institutions expanded, neighbors began to fight encroachment on their way of life. Three case studies involving disputes between expanding urban universities and their neighborhoods reveal similarities in the development and resolution of…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Community Action, Community Organizations, Community Planning
Peer reviewedVigil, Maurilio – Journal of Ethnic Studies, 1990
Presents a case study on the Mexican-American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF) to evaluate and analyze the way Hispanic organizations function in the community. Focuses on its history, structure, activities, and accomplishments. Concludes that education, employment, and political participation are the main thrust of MALDEF. (JS)
Descriptors: Activism, Case Studies, Community Relations, Educational Improvement
Harker, Richard K. – 1980
Problems raised by a conflict between culture of the school and culture of the pupil's home community are brought into focus when looking at schooling for children from a culture which has no links into culture of the dominant group, and in fact rejects as "worthwhile activities" the very things that members of the dominant group regard…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Community Relations, Community Schools, Culture Conflict
