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Direct linkEdwin Nii Bonney; Vida Nana Ama Bonney; Heather Sweeney – Educational Linguistics, 2021
This chapter explores how a refugee support organization in the Midwestern United States supports the educational experiences of refugee-background learners from various countries in Africa and Asia. Researchers spent over a year as both observers and volunteers in a refugee support organization that directly interacted with students who were…
Descriptors: Refugees, Social Support Groups, Community Organizations, School Community Relationship
Russell, S. Garnett; Buckner, Elizabeth; Horsch Carsley, Sarah – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2020
We examine how organizational actors use global legal, humanitarian, and development discourses in their work supporting educational services for refugees to better understand how the transfer of ideas and norms emanating within global organizations affects educational programming for refugees. We ask: (1) To what extent do organizations reference…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Refugees, International Organizations, Global Approach
Download full textLee, Crystal Chen – International Journal of Multicultural Education, 2019
This three-year qualitative case study examined how an African community-based organization, Sauti Yetu's Girl's Empowerment and Leadership Initiative (GELI), leads, bolsters, and transforms the literacy development of African immigrant girls who are identified as English Language Learners (ELLs) and Students with Interrupted Formal Education…
Descriptors: Immigrants, English Language Learners, Literacy Education, Multilingualism
Rouhani, 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
Nasution, Amir H. – 1971
The proceedings of a nation-wide conference in Nigeria concerning adult education are presented. The following steps are proposed in the line of national and international cooperation; these steps can be taken without waiting for financial and administrative approval: (1) the registration of all kinds of adult education programs and activities…
Descriptors: Administrators, Adult Education, Community Organizations, Conferences
Allen, John – 1998
Much has been said and written about the importance of local and community organizations for the development of access to learning opportunities in impoverished countries. Calls for greater self-reliance and for educational services relevant to local conditions and community needs and that meet the needs of all constituents have increased since…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Basic Education, Adult Reading Programs, Community Development
