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Project-Based Community Participatory Action Research Using Geographic Information Technologies
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Kim, Minsung – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2018
The paper investigates the effects of a project-based community participation course in which students chose research topics relevant to a local community. Specifically, the students undertook the following projects: (1) creating a virtual 3D model of a local government office, (2) creating interactive digitized versions of mountain trails using…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Student Projects, Action Research, Participatory Research
Responding to Cultural Loss: Providing an Integral Indigenous Perspective of a "Kichwa Child"
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Maigua, Yolanda Terán; Gutierrez-Gomez, Cathy – Childhood Education, 2016
As Indigenous populations around the world migrate, urbanize, and come into contact with a variety of other cultures, they risk loss of their ancient languages and cultural practices. In 2007, the UN General Assembly adopted the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. In addition to the broader human rights like employment, security, and…
Descriptors: Indigenous Knowledge, Indigenous Populations, Cultural Maintenance, Language Maintenance
Toward a Shift in Expectations and Values: What We've Learned from Collaborative Action Research in Northern Indigenous Communities
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Peterson, Shelly Stagg; Horton, Laura; Restoule, Jean Paul – Canadian Journal of Action Research, 2016
In this paper we propose that collaborative action research values, goals and practices have much in common with guiding principles for conducting research with educators and community members in First Nation, Inuit and Metis communities, as outlined in the Task Force on Aboriginal Languages and Cultures on Aboriginal Languages and Cultures'…
Descriptors: Action Research, Indigenous Populations, Indigenous Knowledge, Educational Research
Empowering Women through Photovoice: Women of La Carpio, Costa Rica
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Morgan, Mary Y.; Vardell, Rosemarie; Lower, Joanna K.; Kinter-Duffy, Ibarra, Laura C.; Victoria L.; Cecil-Dyrkacz, Joy E. – Journal of Ethnographic & Qualitative Research, 2010
The purpose of the project was to allow participants to document, critique, and change their family and community conditions through photographs and stories of their everyday lives. This study used photovoice, a participatory action research methodology, with 7 women from La Carpio, Costa Rica. The women were given cameras and asked to photograph…
Descriptors: Photography, Action Research, Females, Foreign Countries
The Thai Community Curriculum as a Model for Multicultural Education
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Wallace, Merle; Athamesara, Raynou – International Education Journal, 2004
The notion of a community curriculum in Thailand comes from widespread recognition that Thai society has been greatly influenced by the west in its development and modernization. According to many Thais, community curricula are needed to encourage young people to preserve Thai culture and revive local ways of thinking about "development"…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Foreign Countries, Minority Groups, Teacher Researchers
Community Development and Research. Aboriginal Peoples Collection = Developpement Communautaire et Recherches. Collection sur les Autochtones.
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Ministry of the Solicitor General, Ottawa (Ontario). – 1996
This report provides Canadian Aboriginal communities with information and resources for carrying out participatory action research and applying the results to community development. Presented in English and French, the report is based on a literature review and a 2-day focus group involving 14 community development experts, Aboriginal community…
Descriptors: Action Research, American Indian Education, Canada Natives, Community Action