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Showing 1 to 20 of 57 for “"community leadership"”.
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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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Training civic bridge builders: Outcomes of community leadership development programs
… interventions that focus on the development of community leadership capacity could be valuable. Community leadership development programs have been deployed in rural U.S. communities for the past 30 years by university extension units, chambers of commerce, and other nonprofit foundations. Prior …
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Campus battlegrounds: Puerto Rican student activism in higher education and community leadership in Chicago, 1970-1985
… activists could systematize and articulate community knowledge to address educational, political, and community concerns. Drawing on thirteen semi-structured interviews and extensive archival records, Campus Battlegrounds analyzes the interlink between community struggle, student activism, …
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Community Foundations as Community Leaders
<p>Community foundations claim to play an integral role in fostering philanthropy at a community level all across the United States. Community foundations have three distinct operational roles, including asset building, grantmaking, and community leadership. While asset building and grantmaking …
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The effectiveness of the teacher education program of secondary school teachers at the College of the Pacific
… and professionally? Are they prepared for community leadership? It is in an attempt to determine how completely the secondary teacher education program of College of the Pacific meets the needs of its graduates that the School of Education of the College of the Pacific has undertaken this …
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The Lagunya Lacuna : contestations of legitimacy and agency in housing allocation in a Black Local Authority, 1983-1994
… developed between the local authorities and the community leadership structures, between the New Crossroads community and the residents of townships surrounding them, and among the residents of the New Crossroads community themselves. Such interactions speak to the ways in which both state and …
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The Leadership Metro Richmond Program: its effect on interpersonal networks and community organizational memberships
… in this study was the effectiveness of a community leadership development program in training identified emerging community leaders to develop networks of communication and understanding between the governmental, economic, and educational elements of the city and to use these contacts in …
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Lifelong Learning: The Integration of Experiential Learning, Quality of Life Work in Communities and Higher Education
… to help improve the quality of life in their community. The typologies of the respondents were compared with their interests to make career transitions to jobs to improve the quality of life in their communities. The study investigated the willingness of respondents to participate in training, …
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Lifelong Learning: The Integration of Experiential Learning, Quality of Life Work in Communities and Higher Education
… to help improve the quality of life in their community. The typologies of the respondents were compared with their interests to make career transitions to jobs to improve the quality of life in their communities. The study investigated the willingness of respondents to participate in training, …
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Building Governance Capacity in Rural Niger: A Study of Decentralization and Good Governance Policy as Experienced in a Local Village
… institutions, including schools, among local community members. Community leadership, development of participatory public space and trust building, could improve local education capacity to a certain extent, however, strong central government that provides additional resources and builds the …
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Practices for Developing Student Leaders in California Catholic Secondary Schools: A Qualitative Exploratory Case Study
Student leadership enhances the culture and life of secondary schools, particularly those which identify as Catholic. Student leaders design and implement experiences and initiatives that foster greater identification with a school’s mission and charisms. Within the school community, leadership …
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Supporting liberatory literate praxis across disciplines and institutions
… the University of Colorado Boulder’s INVST Community Leadership Studies Program and the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign’s Social Justice Educators Paraprofessionals Program. As each of these programs aims to empower students to cocreate a more just world, they are ideal for …
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Pastor, prophet, priest, and evangelist: a study of clergy leadership roles
… Knudsen and Shriver's (1975) typology of clergy community leadership roles when the level of analysis is extended from the community to the parish. Earle, et al. (1975) developed an analytical fourfold leadership typology identifying the roles of pastor, prophet, priest, and evangelist. Earle, et …
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A sustainable framework for resolving conflicts involving traditional leaders and ward committees in a local municipality of South Africa
… to characterize the relationship between the two leadership institutions compromise their ability to effectively contribute towards rural development. Even though this is the case, existing conflict resolution frameworks (CRFs) have failed to yield sustainable peace. This situation demands that …
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Hope for Struggling School Districts
… and is a key factory in both economic and community development. Although high school graduation rates have shown improvement nationwide in recent years, public education is suffering from increasing inequality between different school districts and within the same school districts. Such …
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Community capacity building : a role for neighbourhood houses in community revitalization
… period of rapid change prompting concerns about community fragmentation. By building social cohesion and revitalizing civic participation, community development is viewed by many as a remedy to offset the weakening of community ties. This thesis explores how a community agency- based worker might …
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A study of the factors affecting the sustainability of community managed rural water supply schemes in Sri Lanka
… development, led to the widespread adoption of community managed rural water supply schemes since the 1980's. Over 3000 community managed rural water supply schemes, primarily funded by bi-lateral and multi-lateral donors, have been implemented in Sri Lanka, since the 1980's. How viable are …
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Teacher Perceptions of the Changing Role of the Secondary Middle School Principal
… were categorized into four areas: strategic leadership, instructional leadership, organizational leadership and political and community leadership. Quantitative findings revealed that teacher perceptions regarding the secondary middle school principal's role were significantly significant for …
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