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Direct linkTeklu Abate Bekele; Denis Thaddeus Ofoyuru; Emnet Tadesse Woldegiorgis – Innovative Higher Education, 2024
Higher education institutions pursue three distinct yet interrelated missions of education, knowledge production, and community engagement. Until the last decades of the twentieth century, the third mission, also known as community engagement, has received little attention. Although the third mission generally aims to contribute to the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Community Involvement, School Community Relationship
Idowu Biao; Ditiro Tsimane – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2024
This article discusses the UNESCO concept of learning city in relation to the peculiarities of the African city. After reviewing earlier theoretical frameworks recommended for the promotion of learning city projects within sub-Saharan Africa, the article comes to the conclusion that those earlier theoretical frameworks are prescriptive. Upon…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Lifelong Learning, Equal Education, Sustainable Development
Anelise Leal Vieira Cubas; Ana Paula Provin; Ana Regina de Aguiar Dutra; José Baltazar Salgueirinho Osório de Andrade Guerra; Clarissa Carneiro Mussi – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2025
Purpose: Higher education institutions (HEIs) have a pivotal role in global sustainable development. The purpose of this study is to assess the QualEnv Consortium's contributions (QualEnv, a cooperative network of 16 universities across several countries, aimed to promote sustainability within HEIs). This paper focuses on three key objectives:…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sustainable Development, Higher Education, Consortia
Khalifa, Muhammad A.; Khalil, Deena; Marsh, Tyson E. J.; Halloran, Clare – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2019
Background: The colonial origins of schooling and the implications these origins have on leadership is missing from educational leadership literature. Indeed little has been published on decolonizing and indigenous ways of leading schools. Purpose: In this article, we synthesize the literature on indigenous, decolonizing education leadership…
Descriptors: School Administration, Instructional Leadership, Foreign Policy, Indigenous Populations
Dickson Okello; Patience Mshenga; Mwanarusi Saidi; Fahad Juma; Sassi Maria; Antony Egeru; Elisha Gogo – Discover Education, 2024
This study focused on mapping agripreneurship curriculum and lecturers' competencies in 8 African Higher Education Institutions (HEIs), participating in the Strengthening Agri-Entrepreneurship and Community Engagement Training in East, West and North Africa (AgriENGAGE) joint Project. A sample of 194 lecturers from East, West, and North Africa…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Faculty, Teacher Competencies, Agricultural Education
Download full textRouhani, Leva – Current Issues in Comparative Education, 2017
In recent years heightened attention has been directed towards the connections between schooling and local communities in sub-Saharan Africa. While community participation in school management has been emphasized as a strategy to promote sustainable development and improve quality education in sub-Saharan Africa, in practice this strategy has…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Gender Differences, Case Studies, Trend Analysis
Penner, Francesca; Sharp, Carla; Marais, Lochner; Shohet, Cilly; Givon, Deborah; Boivin, Michael – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2020
The goal of this paper was to conduct a review of studies from 2008 to 2019 that evaluated community-based caregiver or family interventions to support the mental health of orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) in sub-Saharan Africa, across four domains: (a) study methodology, (b) cultural adaptation and community participation, (c) intervention…
Descriptors: Intervention, Child Caregivers, Family (Sociological Unit), Mental Health
Evgenia Valuy; Yuli Shao – Institute of International Education, 2022
The Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Program is the U.S. Department of State's flagship undergraduate study abroad scholarship program designed for high-achieving American undergraduate students of limited financial means (Pell Grant recipients). The Institute of International Education (IIE) has supported its implementation since the…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Scholarships, Undergraduate Students, Federal Aid
Brock-Utne, Birgit – International Review of Education, 2018
This article has its basis in the author's own growing annoyance at so-called "sandwich" programmes, where young academics from developing countries study and learn theories at universities in the Global North, then go to their own countries for fieldwork -- only to return to the host country to fit their data into the theories of the…
Descriptors: African Languages, African Culture, Ethnography, Foreign Countries
Hoffman, James V.; Sailors, Misty; Aguirre, Sarah H. – Reading Teacher, 2016
Literacy is a basic right of all children around the world. In this article, we describe our work in promoting literacy in Sub-Saharan Africa. We frame our work in contrast to much of the deficit-oriented work in international aid, offer suggestions for ways that the reader might engage in work around literacy that is international in character,…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Foreign Countries, Disadvantaged, International Education
Odora Hoppers, Catherine A. – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2013
It is clear that there is a wide range of arguments that reflect varying degrees of disaffection with the university worldwide. A great deal of understandable effort is directed at the impact of globalisation, especially the way it is making universities engage in academic capitalism (Slaughter and Leslie, 1997). The alternative arguments…
Descriptors: School Community Relationship, Community Involvement, Global Approach, Higher Education
Jenkins, Carolyn; Arulogun, Oyedunni Sola; Singh, Arti; Mande, Aliyu T.; Ajayi, Eric; Benedict, Calys Tagoe; Ovbiagele, Bruce; Lackland, Daniel T.; Sarfo, Fred Stephen; Akinyemi, Rufus; Akpalu, Albert; Obiako, Reginald; Melikam, Enzinne Sylvia; Laryea, Ruth; Shidali, Vincent; Sagoe, Kwamena; Ibinaiye, Philip; Fakunle, Adekunie Gregory; Owolabi, Lukman F.; Owolabi, Mayowa O. – Health Education & Behavior, 2016
Stroke is the leading cause of neurological hospital admissions in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and the second leading cause of death globally. The Stroke Investigative Research and Education Network [SIREN] seeks to comprehensively characterize the genomic, sociocultural, economic, and behavioral risk factors for stroke and to build effective teams…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Neurological Impairments, Medical Research, Health Education
Share the Love: Why Not Celebrate Valentine's Day by Encouraging Kids to Give Back to the Community?
Jackson, Nancy Mann – Instructor, 2011
February is a natural time to teach students that love involves more than hearts and candy--it also means giving of oneself. According to Terri Kennamer, a third-grade teacher at West Elementary School in Vestavia Hills, Alabama, it is the responsibility of educators to help students recognize that they are citizens of the world. Children have…
Descriptors: Altruism, Intimacy, Cultural Differences, Problem Solving
Abaya, Joel Ondieki; Normore, Anthony H. – Journal of School Public Relations, 2010
Through the use of the ethnomethodological lens of narrative inquiry, we argue that the relationship between school and community is an important ingredient that shapes a child's development and adaptation in any society. Our argument is based on the personal and professional experiences and observations of a Barbara L. Jackson Scholar who worked…
Descriptors: School Activities, Community Involvement, School Community Relationship, Public Relations
Raddick, M. Jordan; Bracey, Georgia; Gay, Pamela L.; Lintott, Chris J.; Cardamone, Carie; Murray, Phil; Schawinski, Kevin; Szalay, Alexander S.; Vandenberg, Jan – Astronomy Education Review, 2013
Citizen science, in which volunteers work with professional scientists to conduct research, is expanding due to large online datasets. To plan projects, it is important to understand volunteers' motivations for participating. This paper analyzes results from an online survey of nearly 11000 volunteers in Galaxy Zoo, an astronomy citizen science…
Descriptors: Volunteers, Astronomy, Motivation, Scientific Research
