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Showing 1 to 20 of 142 for “"Community education"”.
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Evaluation of the community education process
… to design a method to evaluate the process of community education and to test the new evaluative method in a small set of community education schools. Based upon the review of the literature, a questionnaire was developed with the assistance of the researcher's advisory committee to evaluate …
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Re-Kindling Community Education in Neoliberal times
This is a study about community education in Ireland. It begins by problematising our current globalised neoliberal epoch interpreting this socio-political environment as built on a return to laissez-faire economics and a hegemonic imbuement of inequality as the norm. The research draws from …
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Curriculum development in community education : a theoretical study
… and evaluation criteria of curriculum in community education. Before these could be developed, it was necessary to reassess commonly well-known and accepted works of community education theorists in order to deduce generic features and, thusly, identify the means and ends envisioned by …
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Contributions of community education to community development: a case study of a community education and training centre, Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa
… of the study was to explore the role played by community education as a catalyst for community development through the lens of students and lecturers at a community education and training centre in eNkanjini Village, located in the Big Five Hlabisa Municipality of Northern KwaZulu-Natal. This …
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Praxis, Critical Pedagogy and Critical Adult and Community Education
… adult learners and the way in which adult and community education was a powerful tool for change. The purpose of this study was to explore this interest in close detail, examining how praxis, the cycle of action and reflection, and critical pedagogy in adult and community education might work …
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An ethnography of community leadership through community-based community education
… important characteristics of an ongoing, viable "community-based" community education project, 2) to determine whether the critical-principles postulated at the beginning of the study would be illustrated by considering a community-based community education project in one community, and 3) to …
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Changing identity and intentions toward entrepreneurial behaviour in community education
… entrepreneurial intentions, an eight-week community education short-course tested three different instructional approaches. All courses taught the knowledge and skills typically covered in entrepreneurship courses. One of the courses added the use of Identity Attribution techniques (derived …
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Making little changes: Increasing physical activity levels through feminist community education
… out to establish a women’s health and fitness community education programme that was aimed at working class women. This women’s health and fitness programme hoped to increase both critical health literacy and levels of physical activity. This has been a Feminist Action Research project. The …
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Resistance, education, and rites: An ethnographic study on Afrocentric community education
… was established out of the need for positive educational activities for children of the dismantled Detroit Public Schools (DPS). The movement was organized by Detroit community members who created grassroots organizations in response to decades of destruction created by State Emergency …
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The use of education for sustainability websites for community education in Chile
… has oriented attention to the role of education for sustainability (EfS) as a means to create more ecologically literate and sustainable societies. One premise is that socio-ecological sustainability issues and challenges are immediate and locally rooted. This calls for educational …
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What is the experience of traveller women in adult and community education?
… the experience of Traveller women in adult and community education. It focuses on a particular group of women in a particular community centre. It was my intention to use the insights gained to develop education programmes that would be congruent of Irish Traveller culture, traditions and needs. …
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Evaluation of the Antiretroviral Community education and referral (ACER) project - Ng'ombe project site
… than men (3.8%) (ZDHS, 2002).The Antiretroviral Community Education and Referral (ACER) project was conceptually designed on the basis of the findings from the community consultations, to improve health seeking behaviour, equity of access, adherence to Anti-Retroviral Treatment, prevention for …
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An Exploration of Change, Progression and Transition in, Through and Beyond Community Education.
… of adult learners in, through and beyond community education. To interrogate this question a qualitative study was carried out using semi structured interviews with five adult learners at and two adult guidance counsellors were carried out. This research was underpinned by an interest in …
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Human-Animal Interactions for Veterans with Post-Traumatic Stress: A Community Education Project
… This project supports that providing an education intervention on the benefits of HAI as adjunctive therapy in treating PTSD among veterans to providers and staff can increase their knowledge and likelihood of discussing and using this intervention information. The participants reported …
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Geography of Heart: Home and Belonging in the light of Adult and Community Education
… of true belonging in the context of adult and community education. Being an adult educator myself, it made sense to use adult education as the setting for my research; however, firstly, adult education is concerned with issues of belonging – particularly regarding community education which …
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Finding the horseshoe nail: Colonization, de-colonoization and counter-colonization in Adult and Community Education.
… have been expressed about the colonization of community education by neo-liberalism. As a traditionally process-oriented, non-formal learning experience, influenced by the ideas of Paolo Freire, and concerned with concepts such as social justice and combating marginalization, community …
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Adult community education as sites for the development of social capital in a culturally diverse society
This research investigates the roles that adult community education (ACE) providers and programs play in the development of social and cultural networks for people from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds in a regional community context. Within the milieu of the Shire of …
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An analysis of the philosophy of Paulo Freire for the purpose of structuring community education programmes
A model had been designed for a Community school for a small town in fulfilment of a written assignment during the first year of the writer's post-graduate course. This model embraced education from pre-school through primary, middle and senior levels to further education for individuals and for …
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The attitudes and opinions of Indiana school superintendents toward selected components of community education in the public schools
… superintendent:; toward selected components of Community Education in public schools.Review of literature traced development of t)-h philosophy of Community Education from a "one-room schoolhouse" to a multiplicity of components involving all aspects of community life.Studies related to …
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