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Showing 1 to 20 of 80 for “"Community partners"”.
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Relationships between conservators, community partners and urban conservation areas: a case study of nature reserves on the Cape Flats
… relationships between conservation management, community partners and urban conservation areas. These relationships are vital for the progression of new conservation practice in places where people live and work. In addition, the transformative aspects of conservation in relation to social …
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An exploration of community partners' experiences of a 4th year medical students' community-based research and health promotion course
… in the health professions acquire skills in community-based research and health promotion. Over the past nine years, the School of Public Health and its three divisions of Primary Health Care (PHC), Public Health (PH) and Family Medicine (FM) in the Health Sciences Faculty at the University …
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Can connecting and collaborating with industry professionals and community partners through a project-based initiative create a meaningful learning and leadership experience for college students?
… collaborated with industry professionals and community members through CreateAthon onCampus at Chattanooga. Through the lens of this experiential, project-based initiative, this study explores the students’ learning and leadership experiences, created by the connection between education, …
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Community Partner Perspectives of Community-University Partnerships that Support Service Learning
Community partner voices are important to understand because they provide the contexts in which occupational therapy students meet course objectives by applying clinical reasoning theory and developing clinical reasoning skills in a natural context (Witchger-Hansen et al., 2007; Provident, et al., …
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Reciprocal exchange: understanding the community partner perspective in higher education service-learning
This study investigates service-learning from the community partners' perspective, especially in terms of reciprocity. As a central construct in the theory of service-learning, reciprocity for community partners is virtually unknown. Little scholarship exists that explains or explores the benefits …
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A Description of Nonprofit Executive Leaders' Perceptions of Human Resource Capacity Building within their Organizations
… initiatives of nonprofit organizations and their community partners?</p> <p>2. To what extent is training and development results actually used or desired by nonprofit organizations and their community partners?</p> <p>3. What is the perception of the importance of human resource development based …
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Research that matters: transforming community based education through feminist pedagogy and public scholarship
… analysis of focus groups conducted with "Community Partners" (mostly Directors of non-profit social service agencies who have previously partnered with Eastern Washington faculty in community-based education efforts) in the Greater Spokane Area. This research is designed to address …
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Investigating Place in the Writing Classroom: Designing a Place-Based Course with a Local Service-Learning Component
… in the course design process: students and community partners. To present a rich account of these stakeholders* experiences designing, implementing, and participating in a place-based service- learning project, a combination of qualitative data methods (interviews, classroom observations, …
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Can apprenticeships alleviate a regional skills gap? : a case study of programs at Trident Technical College in Charleston, SC
… gaps. Since 2007, Trident Tech, businesses, and community partners have expanded the number of adult apprenticeships and created a regional youth apprenticeship program where both programs offer positions in career pathways in diverse sectors. This thesis examines what program administrators, …
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The Implementation of Support Calls in a Pilot Childhood Obesity Intervention
… strategies can be implemented with fidelity in community-based programs. A study was conducted to determine if type of delivery staff (community or research) is related to implementation fidelity; the degree to which TB/TTG methods are necessary for parent/caregiver understanding of childhood …
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Thinking Globally, Writing Locally: Re-Visioning Critical And Service Learning Pedagogies With Globalization Theory
… create a false hierarchy between students and community partners by evoking an ideology of "service" and an us/them mentality; it may not be truly transformative for students; it often lacks genuine collaboration between students and partners; and many courses focus more on action than …
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Listening to the Community: An Appreciative Case Study of Service-Learning Initiatives Within a Higher Education Institution
… institution listens to the voice of the community in which it resides throughout its implementation of service-learning initiatives. The concept of power, as described by Lukes (2005), provided the primary theoretical framework for this case study informed by Appreciative Inquiry. Data …
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Exploring Readiness to Convene an Equity-Driven Collaborative that HelpsHighly Mobile Tennesseans Thrive
… act as conveners, helping bring together diverse partners to address public health issues. For one research team, their work has centered on understanding and addressing the relationships between personal/residential mobility and HIV care. However, without explicit attention to power imbalances, …
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Multiple Perspectives on Academic Service-Learning Partnerships at the American University in Cairo: A Mixed Method Study
… in the literature on academic service-learning partnerships, especially in Eastern settings. It utilized Enos and Morton's (2003) theoretical framework to explore these partnerships at the American University in Cairo (AUC). Seventy-nine community partners, administrators, faculty members, and …
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Word up : Algonquin College as a sustainability leader
… new types of experiential learning involving community partners and encouraged the college to educate for careers related to sustainable food and renewable energy. On-campus participants were concerned foremost with the infusion of sustainable principles across all college curricula.
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Culturally Responsive JASPER Remote Support for Caregivers of Children with Autism in China
… study was designed to collaborate with Chinese community partners as well as JASPER intervention and cultural adaptation experts to identify adaptations necessary to improve the fit of the JASPER caregiver learning materials and program procedures for Chinese communities and to examine the …
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Feminism Negotiated: a Study of Feminist Community Engagement Through a University Women's Center
Community engagement and service-learning programs have become staples in the curricula of colleges across the United States. While the intentions behind many of these programs are altruistic, they can often unwittingly replicate oppressive power dynamics with the communities they seek to serve. …
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All Writers Welcome: An Exploratory Study of the Potential Value of Academic Writing Center and Adult Community-Based Literacy Center Partnerships
… Further, while evidence of writing center community-engaged initiatives exists anecdotally, research identifying the possible impact of such efforts on specific community partners and populations is limited. Hence, this study explores how literacy is supported in university/college writing …
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Volunteers in America: How Volunteerism and American Civil Society Shape Our Museums
… focuses on the relationship between museums and community, yet does not often address the role of museum volunteerism within such a context. This thesis therefore also examines the intersection of community and museum volunteerism, presenting a starting point for future researches to continue …
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Bits at the Backline: Comedy and Service-Learning in the Age of Pandemic
… in academic discourse as well as empower our community partners and podcast guests. Our methods and approach borrow heavily from “Critical design ethnography” as defined by Barab, Thomas, Dodge, Squire and Newell. Critical design ethnography sits at the intersection of participatory action …
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