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Showing 1 to 20 of 54 for “"community learning"”.
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Community Learning: Process, Structure, and Renewal
Community renewal is a dominant theme in American society today. It has been said that public administration could and should be a leader in the community renewal movement, yet for the most part the field of public administration fails to "get" community. This study advances and explores a concept …
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Interrogating Artist-Teacher Identity Transformation in Adult Community Learning
… delineated. However, the artist-teacher in Adult Community Learning (ACL), in the UK, has been overlooked. There is no data on the number or demographic of artist-teachers in this sector, with no acknowledgment in government data, or published research. Indeed, there is no comprehensive list of …
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One to one connections : building a community learning culture
… and dominant cultural beliefs about teaching, learning, and knowledge constrain people's mindsets, paradoxically preventing the fundamental changes that can take advantage of new technologies and address the inadequacies of current educational systems. The same constraints permeate reform …
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ABET programmes at community learning centres in the Western Cape
The problem that gave rise to this study was to determine how Adult Basic Education and Training (ABET) was implemented in the Western Cape and to find answers to the question of "what exactly is the nature of the relationship between adult education and training".
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21st Century Community Learning Centers: Program Evaluation Evidence from Texas
… persist. This study evaluated 21st Century Community Learning Centers’ performance in reading, math, GPA, attendance, in-school suspension, and engagement, both within these categories and against program goals and demographics. Theoretical frameworks used in this study include the logic …
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The implications of broadband Internet on online adult and community learning
… learners within the context of online learning opportunities. I hoped to ascertain whether rural learners' needs differ in terms of learning choices from that of their urban counterparts. This study was particularly focused on establishing a baseline for understanding community online …
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Citizens changing ideas into action: a phenomenological study of community learning
… study defines and explores the concept of community learning as a driver of economic and social change. Community learning refers to the creation of new knowledge and skills as a result of people interacting with each other to affect change within a locality. Jointly-created knowledge and …
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Farmer knowledge in alternative agriculture: Community learning and the politics of knowledge
… emphasizing local, grassroots knowledge and community-based economies. The goal of this research is to understand how knowledge and power determine farmer subjectivities, particularly for the new generation of alternative farmers in Canada. This research considers how new alternative farmers …
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Questioning the narrative: stories from a community learning centre in the Western Cape
… the creation of a new kind of institution: the Community Education and Training College (CETC). These colleges consolidated the public adult education system into nine provincial CETCs, each with several community learning centres (CLCs). The goal – community-based learning offering a diversity …
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AN ANALYSIS OF ALBERTA'S FIRST NATIONS, METIS, AND INUIT SCHOOL-COMMUNITY LEARNING ENVIRONMENT PROJECT
The First Nations, Métis, and Inuit School-Community Learning Environment Project was one of the programs through which the Aboriginal Branch of Alberta Education attempted to increase the academic success rate of First Nation, Métis, and Inuit students. Sixteen school jurisdictions in Alberta were …
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AN ANALYSIS OF ALBERTA'S FIRST NATIONS, METIS, AND INUIT SCHOOL-COMMUNITY LEARNING ENVIRONMENT PROJECT
The First Nations, Métis, and Inuit School-Community Learning Environment Project was one of the programs through which the Aboriginal Branch of Alberta Education attempted to increase the academic success rate of First Nation, Métis, and Inuit students. Sixteen school jurisdictions in Alberta were …
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The elements of variety: as studied through the design of a community learning center
… the original, visceral intentions. The Richmond Community Learning Center was a competition project which became the vehicle for the study of a thesis . The ideas engendered by the conceptualized requirements of the proposed inhabitants led me to uncover a clear, essential question which I was …
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The Idea Melting Pot (IMP) : an openly-editable web-based community learning resource for builders
… future for an openly-editable web-based community learning resource for builders. The idea for a resource such as this and how it might be structured stems from Seymour Papert's vision of a Constructopedia: [...] a browsable, interactive database, designed to help children build …
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An investigation into a community information database system in the northeast of Thailand: Community empowerment through community learning centres
… from the four provinces of the Inpeng Community Network (ICN). The purpose of the Questionnaire was to ascertain levels of information needs and local knowledge, and to identify ten local experts from ICN for subsequent In-depth Interviews. Data obtained in this way were analysed then …
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A NEET Ending: How Adult and Community Learning supports young people who are Not in Employment, Education or Training
… a very real role in facilitating their wider learning and reducing their chances of being long term NEET. It is with this in mind, that this study therefore challenges the traditional notion of only viewing educational success as academic achievement and engages with a broadened notion of …
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Assembling the socio-educational spheres within contested urban environments: The Role of a Community Learning Hub in a Contested Urban Environment
Within the context of this dissertation, community transformative education is regarded as a pathway to an explicit community lifelong learning culture of learning. It aims to liberate marginalized communities from states of oppressive socio- economic status-quos within contested urban locations. …
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21st Century Community Learning Center Program: A Study to Evaluate the Success of a Program in a Rural County in East Tennessee.
<p>The 21st Century Community Learning Center Program is a key component in the <em>No Child Left Behind</em> Act. It presents an opportunity for students and their families to continue to learn new skills after the regular school day has ended. The focus of the program is to provide expanded …
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How promoting are professional staff working within community learning disability teams of clients having sexual relationships, and what are the factors involved in this?
… issues concerning sexuality and clients with learning disabilities, knowledge, and overall experience of working with the client group would influence decisions professional staff made concerning sexuality and risk. A questionnaire was devised comprising the following four sections: 1. …
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Do Community Learning Disability Nurses (CNLDs) Support Adults with Learning Disabilities in Wales to Access Secondary Healthcare: an exploratory study within the social model of disability
… to secondary healthcare for individuals with a learning disability has been a growing concern, with numerous reports highlighting the need to improve access to secondary care. In Wales, providers (health boards) have taken different approaches to promote improved access to healthcare for people …
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Responding to Allegations of Abuse: A Qualitative Study of the Influences Upon Decisions made by Nurse and Social Workers in Community Learning Disability Units in South Wales
Background: The abuse of adults with a learning disability has been increasingly monitored and recorded in order to prevent abuse and to intervene when it occurs. What has received less attention is why the incidents that are identified and recorded as abuse are recognised and defined as abuse. …
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