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Structural Influences on Critical Civic Development: Comparisons across Classroom and Youth Organizing Spaces
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Moya, Jesse – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2016
This paper presents findings from analysis of two learning sites, a classroom and a community-based youth organizing group for Latino adolescents where adult "educators" attempted to promote both critical and civic development for the participating learners. By examining the two unique learning spaces with similar youth development…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Classroom Environment, Community Organizations, Citizenship Education
An Assessment of Changes in Affiliations in Public Affairs Organizations Among Graduates of Four Intensive Leadership Development Programs.
Howell, Robert E.; Weir, Ivan L. – 1978
Intensive leadership development programs in Pennsylvania, Michigan California, and Montana positively affected the participation of program graduates in public affairs organizations. The programs, begun in 1965, and designed to prepare young men and women from rural areas for more effective leadership in agricultural and public affairs, consisted…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Community Leaders, Community Organizations, Community Services
Immigrant Women, English Literacy Programs, and Work in the United States: A Look at How Ideology and Funding Are Shaping Workplace Education.
Katz, Mira-Lisa – 1997
The effects of ideological assumptions about teaching, learning, and the labor market and the impact of differing funding sources on community-based organizations' efforts to prepare immigrant/refugee women for jobs in the United States were examined through a study of programs sponsored by two San Francisco Bay area community organizations--the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Asian Americans, Community Education, Community Organizations