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DeVries, Heather A. – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The present study sought to explore the relationship between a community's characteristics and the local community college. Founded with the objective of serving the needs of their local communities, community colleges provide an important access point to postsecondary education for a variety of groups, including students from low-income…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Community Characteristics, School Community Relationship, Success
Jennifer K. Wantz – ProQuest LLC, 2022
John Dewey (1916) asserted that deliberate and systematic educational systems provide capacity to all members of society in order to solve problems and is the foundation for participatory democratic education (Harbour, 2015). Learning is also a social process that allows people to live purposefully. The goal of this qualitative, narrative inquiry…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Position Papers, Stakeholders, School Community Relationship
Yvette M. Regalado – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This counterstorytelling study involved examining how Practitioners of Color (POC) enact "carino" and embed restorative literacies or cultural and community practices in community college integrated reading and writing (IRW) classrooms to create a safe counterspace for Students of Color (SOC). The significance of this research is to…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Cultural Activities, Community Characteristics, Methods