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Golan, Daphna; Shalhoub-Kevorkian, Nadera – Journal of Peace Education, 2014
This article is based on an action-oriented study of 13 community-engaged courses at 11 institutions of higher education in Israel. These courses were not part of peace education programs but rather accredited academic courses in various disciplines, all of which included practice and theory. The purpose of this article is to demonstrate how these…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Action Research, Case Studies, Transformative Learning
Everett-Murphy, K.; De Villiers, A.; Ketterer, E.; Steyn, K. – Health Education Research, 2015
As part of a comprehensive programme to prevent non-communicable disease in South Africa, there is a need to develop public education campaigns on healthy eating. Urban populations of lower socioeconomic status are a priority target population. This study involved formative research to guide the development of a nutrition resource appropriate to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Nutrition Instruction, Nutrition, Educational Resources
Cooney, Emily – Community Literacy Journal, 2014
In making a case for ecocomposition, Sidney Dobrin has claimed that writing, place, and environment cannot be separated. As Donehower, Hogg, and Schell and Deborah Brandt might argue, literacy cannot be separated from place either. But it might sometimes be separated from environment as an ecosystem that has value distinct from, and without the…
Descriptors: Debate, Stakeholders, Ecology, Environmental Education
Examination of a Scale Assessing Attitudes towards Individuals with Intellectual Disability in China
Su, Hui; Cuskelly, Monica; Gilmore, Linda; Sullivan, Karen – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2015
This study examined the applicability of the four-factor structure of the short form of the Community Living Attitudes Scale-Intellectual Disability (CLAS-ID) in China, using a sample of 325 Chinese community members. Confirmatory factor analysis revealed that the original structure of the short form of the CLAS-ID did not adequately fit the data…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intellectual Disability, Attitude Measures, Attitudes toward Disabilities
McManus, Phil; Walmsley, Jim; Argent, Neil; Baum, Scott; Bourke, Lisa; Martin, John; Pritchard, Bill; Sorensen, Tony – Journal of Rural Studies, 2012
Many studies have highlighted the phenomenon of rural decline in parts of the developed world, summarised as a loss in agricultural employment leading to a decline in the number and size of rural settlements. This study of small towns in part of Australia's inland rural "heartland" employs the concepts of interactional rural community of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Municipalities, Community Characteristics, Rural Areas
Bishaw, Alemayehu – International Journal of Educational Administration and Policy Studies, 2014
This study endeavored to investigate the impact of education on rural women's participation in political and economic activities. Six hundred rural women and 12 gender Activists were selected for this study from three Zones of Amhara Region, Ethiopia using multi-stage random sampling technique and purposeful sampling techniques respectively.…
Descriptors: Political Issues, Economic Development, Womens Studies, Participation
Christensen, Linda – Rethinking Schools, 2013
This article describes how the historic destruction of the Chavez Ravine neighborhood in Los Angeles--to build Dodger Stadium--paved the way for students to understand changes in their own neighborhood. Through slideshows, poems, newscast transcripts, field trips, and classroom activities, students navigated the complex history of Chavez Ravine to…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Land Acquisition, Disadvantaged, Change
Szolowicz, Michael – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2016
In the fall of 2013, a parents' group formed to protest the new Common Core based mathematics textbook recently adopted by their school district. Quickly allying with teachers, the new coalition began to, "hammer," the district to drop the Common Core and return to more traditional texts and pedagogies. They did so by speaking at…
Descriptors: Common Core State Standards, Resistance to Change, Politics of Education, Local Issues
Fredua-Kwarteng, Eric – International Journal of Educational Methodology, 2016
This paper is based on a research that explored how Inuit community members in Nunavut Territory, Canada, conceptualized quality education in the socio-cultural context of the territory. Data were collected through telephone interviews of 13 Inuit community members in Nunavut and document reviews both of which were conducted in 2010. The data…
Descriptors: Canada Natives, Foreign Countries, Educational Quality, Social Influences
Coffey, Nancy; Canales, Mary K.; Moore, Emily; Gullickson, Melissa; Kaczmarski, Brenda – Journal of Extension, 2014
Food insecurity is a growing concern for Eau Claire County residents in Western Wisconsin. A community-academic partnership studied food insecurity through the voices of families struggling to access food and institutions that assist with hunger related problems. Data were collected through focus groups held in urban and rural parts of the county.…
Descriptors: Research Projects, Hunger, Poverty Programs, Food
Majee, Wilson; Maltsberger, Beverly A. – Journal of Extension, 2013
The study reported here is an evaluation of the public value of a regional public policy engagement program. Data were obtained through surveys and document analysis. The study observed peer-learning and networking opportunities as some of the most impactful elements of GNWD at the Capitol in creating public value. Building coalitions of interest…
Descriptors: Public Policy, Extension Education, Program Evaluation, Community Programs
Southcott, Jane; Joseph, Dawn – International Journal of Music Education, 2015
Australia is a country of ongoing migration that embraces diversity, creative expression and cultural activity. Membership of community music groups by older people can enhance life quality, and may provide a space through which cultural and linguistic identity may be shared and celebrated. This qualitative phenomenological case study explores…
Descriptors: Singing, Womens Studies, Females, Phenomenology
Palmer, Parker J. – Journal of College and Character, 2011
In 1831, a young French intellectual named Alexis de Tocqueville visited the United States. Less than a year later, he returned home to begin writing "Democracy in America," a two-volume book that is arguably the best ever written on its subject. It is quite remarkable that Tocqueville's book has proven to be so prophetic and enduring:…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Democracy, Colleges, Universities
Ganski, Helen – Berkeley Review of Education, 2015
Detrimental side effects of the politics of localism include socioeconomic and racial inequalities across fragmented contiguous school districts. Inequality follows patterns of neighborhood segregation and suburban expansion. Some regions approach these issues through collaborative models of cross-district school choice that focus shared resources…
Descriptors: School Choice, Transfer Policy, Metropolitan Areas, School Districts
Eppley, Karen – Teacher Educator, 2015
This is a case study about how teacher education might better prepare rural teacher candidates for rural schools. Parents, teachers, community members, and students associated with a rural school described what is important in the preparation of teachers for today's rural schools. Their goals and wishes for their children's school and community…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Rural Education, Case Studies, Preservice Teachers