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Sean Patrick Crossland – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Community colleges play a significant role in the higher education landscape. Open access missions and diverse student bodies are often used to indicate that community colleges are democratizing higher education. This study begins broad questions about what it means to do the work of democracy at a community college. De Anza College in Cupertino,…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Sense of Community, Student Experience, Institutional Characteristics
Gordon, Pamela Jane – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This project builds on existing literature which argues that schools, given their broad reaching influence, can serve as central institutions to help encourage and sustain civic engagement (Bixby & Pace, 2008; Branson, 2001; CIRCLE, 2003; Gutmann, 1987; Putnam, 2000; Flanagan & Faison, 2001; Galston, 2003; Atkins & Hart, 2002; Torney-Purta,…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Urban Schools, Citizenship Education, Civics
Jessee, Emily George – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This research study provides the finding of a qualitative case study in Technology, Engineering, and Design Education as well as Social Studies Education. The purpose of this study was to describe the role of graphics within a social studies lesson by examining a student's experience when a new lesson is implemented in class. The participants were…
Descriptors: Student Experience, Case Studies, Qualitative Research, Technology Education