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James Irvine Foundation, 2017
While engagement programs are often episodic or separate from an art organization's core programming, in late 2013 a group of 10 arts nonprofits across California set out to make engagement central to their work. They aimed to transform their programmatic, organizational, and business models in ways that would improve and sustain their reach and…
Descriptors: Art, Nonprofit Organizations, Organizational Change, Diversity
Brusnahan, L. Lynn Stansberry, Ed.; Stodden, Robert A., Ed.; Zucker, Stanley H., Ed. – Council for Exceptional Children, 2018
The transition from high school to adulthood is challenging for many young people, and often particularly difficult for those with disabilities. "Transition to Adulthood: Work, Community, and Educational Success" provides a blueprint for supporting youth with disabilities in achieving their postsecondary goals in a variety of adult…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Young Adults, High School Graduates, Goal Orientation
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Morgan, Thomas Lee – International Journal of Education Policy and Leadership, 2018
Education research has established a significant relationship between school leadership and students' achievement. This study considers the leadership self-efficacy and practice of assistant principals (AP) in public schools in the domains of facilitating a supportive and collaborative learning environment, instructional leadership, school…
Descriptors: Assistant Principals, Administrator Attitudes, Self Efficacy, Administrator Role
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Milliken, Matthew; Bates, Jessica; Smith, Alan – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2020
Education is a key mechanism for the restoration of inter-community relations in post-conflict societies. The Northern Ireland school system remains divided along sectarian lines. Much research has been conducted into the efficacy of initiatives developed to bring children together across this divide but there has been an absence of studies into…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Teacher Distribution, Foreign Countries, Cultural Differences
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Hodzhageldieva, Zulfiya M.; Imambekova, Gulzhan C.; Kerimbayeva, Rysty K.; Myrkassymova, Madina A.; Shukeyeva, Ayauzhan M.; Alpysbay, Laila A.; Bekberdiyeva, Saira T. – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
The subject of the article is of current interest nowadays in the conditions of spiritual and moral crisis provoked by the deep social and economic transformations occurring in modern society. Such public situation makes fall into a muse about the revival of lost cultural wealth, about moral and patriotic reference points in youth education. The…
Descriptors: Citizenship, Youth, Child Rearing, Citizen Participation
Martin, James, Ed.; Samels, James E., Ed. – Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019
Colleges and universities have always had interesting relationships with their external communities, whether they are cities, towns, or something in between. In many cases, they are the main economic driver for their regions--State College, Pennsylvania, or Raleigh, North Carolina, for example--and in others, they exist side by side with thriving…
Descriptors: Colleges, Universities, School Community Relationship, Best Practices
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Hughes, Joanne; Loader, Rebecca – British Educational Research Journal, 2015
Although there is no consensus among educationalists as to the role schools play as drivers of hostilities in divided societies, there is broad agreement that they can facilitate more positive intergroup relations. In Northern Ireland the promotion of school based intergroup contact has been offered as a means through which this can happen. Until…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Community Relations, Intergroup Relations, School Role
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Beard, Karen Stansberry – Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership, 2017
A novice principal's decision not to intervene on an ill-conceived policy prompts a parent to pursue a line of questioning administrators are not prepared for. In this case, a young man working through a high school transition while preparing for college is met with unexpected challenges in motivation. What the principal initially perceives as…
Descriptors: Educational Administration, Instructional Leadership, Desegregation Litigation, School Desegregation
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Holohan, Kevin J. – Issues in Teacher Education, 2018
This article briefly examines and explains the theory of social ecology and the political theory of "libertarian municipalism" as developed by the late Murray Bookchin (1921-2006) as a possible comprehensive framework for a secondary curriculum centered upon an anarchistic and ecological ethics. The author first offers an investigation…
Descriptors: Ecological Factors, Social Environment, Community Education, Secondary School Curriculum
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Williams, Amanda; McKeown, Shelley; Orchard, Janet; Wright, Kathryn – Journal of Beliefs & Values, 2019
In this article we considered the relevance of specific claims that 'multi-faith' approaches to Religious Education (RE) play a role in promoting good community relations. In doing so, we adopted a social-psychological perspective where engaging in positive and meaningful interactions with diverse others reduces prejudice. Survey responses from 92…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Community Relations, Social Psychology, Cultural Pluralism
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van Breda, Adrian D. – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2018
Youth transitioning into university face numerous life challenges, particularly in South Africa with its high levels of poverty and inequality. This article, recognising the vulnerability of many students, sets out to identify the resilience processes that facilitate the resilient outcomes of life satisfaction and academic progress. Using a sample…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Resilience (Psychology), Transfer Students, At Risk Students
James Irvine Foundation, 2016
Many California arts organizations want their participants and artists to reflect the socioeconomic diversity of the state's population. The Exploring Engagement Fund supports new approaches that these nonprofit organizations are using to reach more diverse participants. Through project experiments, Irvine and its grantees are learning valuable…
Descriptors: Art, Nonprofit Organizations, Diversity, Outreach Programs
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Lenz, A. Stephen – Journal of College Counseling, 2014
This study examined the relationship between student adjustment to college and relational health with peers, mentors, and the community. Data were collected from 80 undergraduate students completing their first semester of course work at a large university in the mid-South. A series of simultaneous multiple regression analyses indicated that…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Multiple Regression Analysis, Mentors, Peer Relationship
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Loader, Rebecca – Educational Studies, 2017
Initiatives in intercultural education have frequently involved the promotion of contact between members of different groups as a means of improving intergroup relations. Experience from Northern Ireland suggests, however, that such schemes have often been organised and delivered in such a way that opportunities for sustained, high-quality contact…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Classroom Techniques, Intergroup Relations, Group Unity
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Stefanski, Amanda; Valli, Linda; Jacobson, Reuben – School Community Journal, 2016
Research indicates that partnerships between schools and neighborhood communities support student learning, improve schools, and strengthen families and neighborhoods. These partnerships expand the traditional educational mission of the school to include health and social services for children and their families and to involve the broader…
Descriptors: Student Participation, Learner Engagement, Partnerships in Education, Family School Relationship
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