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Holmes, Marilyn. "Community Engagement: Home School Partnership." Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2012. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-80198.

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Five year old children starting their formal education in primary schools bring with them a range of informal mathematical understandings. Transitioning from an early childhood setting to the reception class at school can have a profound impact on their developing mathematical concepts. Traditionally their first teachers (parents, caregivers and whanau) gradually remove the support and encouragement and some of the familiar surroundings of their early childhood centres are no longer there. As children from 5 – 13 years of age spend approximately 85% of their time out of school it is important

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Smith, Lisa T. "Urban change through sustained community engagement: implications for school leaders." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 2004. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/1890.

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In this study, the researcher explored the juncture between the community development and educational reform movements in distressed urban communities and investigated why institutions, such as school systems, are critical to the success of the community development movement. The study utilized a multimethod approach employing three qualitative data sources—interviews, observations, and document review—to access the implementation of comprehensive reform in urban renewal communities and to determine if the presence of reform strengthens the value of teamwork, collaboration, and communication.

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Seobi, Seago Martha. "The voices of rural school youth on Higher Education community engagement partnerships." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/62906.

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Higher education institutions have been mandated by government to engage in community development projects and partner with local communities. This was done in order for the higher education institutions to reconsider the role the play in local communities and redress some of the injustices that occurred during the apartheid era. The purpose of this qualitative study was to describe the experiences of young people from a rural school on higher education community engagement partnership. The participants were made up of 31 young people from a rural school in Mpumalanga and had been involved in

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Washington, Shaneé Adrienne. "Family-School-Community (Dis)Engagement: An Indigenous Community's Fight for Educational Equity and Cultural Reclamation in a New England School District." Thesis, Boston College, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:108518.

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Thesis advisor: Lauri Johnson<br>This exploratory case study examined family-school-community engagement in a small New England school district and town that is home to a federally recognized Indigenous Tribe that has inhabited the area for 12,000 years and whose children represent the largest group of racially minoritized students in the public schools. Using Indigenous protocols and methodologies that included relational accountability, individual semi-structured conversations, talking circles, and participant observation, this study explored the ways that Indigenous families and community m

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Nickels, Lindsay K. "Stakeholders' Perceptions of Community Engagement in a System-Wide Educational Change Effort: Implications for Building Partnerships." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2007. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/2131.

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This qualitative study should provide insight into stakeholders' perceptions of a system-wide educational partnership focused on a change effort to increase student achievement in a school system located in a large, metropolitan city in the southeastern United States. The importance of partnering to assure that all children are succeeding in school has never been more important to local communities and our nation. Not only are definitions of educational partnerships expanding, but so are the parameters, the players, and the structures. As educational improvement initiatives are put into effect

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Silver, Canady Tisa. "The Relationship between Financial Aid Advising and Community College Student Engagement." Thesis, Morgan State University, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10642094.

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<p> The rising cost of higher education has positioned federal financial aid as an inescapable part of the college experience for a growing number of incoming students (Baum, 2006). In the 2014–2015 academic year, the U.S. Department of Education allocated more than $150 billion of federal financial aid for eligible college students (Federal Student Aid, 2014). Although billions of dollars in federal student aid have been made available, finances or lack thereof, remain an oft-cited barrier to student success (Long & Riley, 2007; Myers, 2008). Community college student support servic

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Greenaway, Ruth Rowena. "School-community engagement : a critical approach to involving young people in an urban planning project." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2011. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/52644/1/Ruth_Greenaway_Thesis.pdf.

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This study examines the participation of a group of high school students in designing a Heritage Journey as part of an urban redevelopment project in their community. School-community engagement offers young people an opportunity to engage in community life and influence decisions that affect them. Forging links between community and school is becoming more important for teachers as they attempt to create new authentic learning opportunities for young people within a changing world. Increasingly, researchers and urban planners are including children and young people as active decision maker

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Reed, Luke Terrence, and res cand@acu edu au. "The Effect of Participation in School-Facilitated Community Service Programmes on Students’ Self-Esteem, Sense of Community Engagement and Attitudes to Christianity." Australian Catholic University. School of Education, 2006. http://dlibrary.acu.edu.au/digitaltheses/public/adt-acuvp142.17052007.

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Increasingly, student orientated service outreach programmes (community service) are being incorporated into the broad curriculum of Australian High Schools. The assumption made is that such programmes have tangible benefits for students, the community and the schools themselves. Schools that operate out of a Christian paradigm have the added incentive of seeking to assist students give personal expression to religious commitment through the service of others. This study tests the assumption that participation in community service or service outreach activities has positive benefits for the st

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Reed, Luke Terrence. "The effect of participation in school-facilitated community service programmes on students' self-esteem, sense of community engagement and attitudes to Christianity." Thesis, Australian Catholic University, 2006. https://acuresearchbank.acu.edu.au/download/ab1214425059728ea11a8130db6e1f25a406d3fa4a5f2c816b0629c125cf68a2/1093400/65060_downloaded_stream_285.pdf.

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Increasingly, student orientated service outreach programmes (community service) are being incorporated into the broad curriculum of Australian High Schools. The assumption made is that such programmes have tangible benefits for students, the community and the schools themselves. Schools that operate out of a Christian paradigm have the added incentive of seeking to assist students give personal expression to religious commitment through the service of others. This study tests the assumption that participation in community service or service outreach activities has positive benefits for the st

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Bevington, Suzanne. "Home-school relationships : the communication and engagement practices of schools and the role of the community educational psychologist." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/13023.

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Paper One: Developing positive relationships between schools and families has become an increasing priority within education in order to best support children and young people’s learning and development. Despite an increasing focus on seeking the parental ‘voice’, the views and experiences of school staff, parents and children appear to have limited prominence within the literature. This paper presents a piece of illuminative Community Psychology research that explored home-school relationships from the perspectives of school staff, parents and children from four Primary schools in a local com

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Mc, Mullen Vickie. "Community engagement through Collective Efficacy: Building partnerships in an urban community to encourage collective action to increase student achievement in a neighborhood school." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1337718709.

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Jund, Nicole C. "Strategic Design: Developing Community Relations in a Texas School District." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2016. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc849729/.

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School leaders often contemplate implementing measures that will increase community and parent involvement in schools. There is a shortage of research that concisely takes school leadership through a process that details how to integrate parent and community input in a school transformation initiative and careful analysis of student outcomes. Within this study, I provide an in-depth look at one school district’s efforts to engage its community through strategic planning and mission and vision redesign. This process includes community involvement at every phase. For the purpose of this study, c

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Smith, Warren T. "Predictors of Academic Achievement among Students at Hillsborough Community College: Can School Engagement Close the Racial Gap of Achievement?" Scholar Commons, 2010. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/1778.

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In the United States today, significant gaps exist among the races along a variety of measures of academic success, including standardized test scores, grade point averages, and drop-out and graduation rates. In recent decades, social scientists and educators alike have sought to uncover the reasons for these gaps, and many have focused on the role of cultural and institutional factors within the school setting. In recent years, researchers have examined such factors as a students' school identification (Osborne 1997; Voelkl 1997), students' opportunities to learn and the classroom climate (Oa

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Groves, Malcolm. "An investigation into the inter-connectedness of trust, community engagement, school leadership and educational outcomes in English secondary schools." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2014. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/66079/.

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This thesis investigates potential connections between the development of social capital and education outcomes in English secondary schools, and particularly the influence of leadership on these. The investigation is underpinned by four themes emerging from a review of literature as gaps in current knowledge: • how social capital is activated and developed, and the role of school leadership; • whether the development of social capital can be separated from socio-economic status; • understanding the role of young people in relation to social capital in a school • examining the balancing and re

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Gandy, Robert Lawrence. "Community service-learning the effects on adolescents' civic engagement, academic achievement, and personal development /." Online pdf file accessible through the World Wide Web, 2009. http://archives.evergreen.edu/masterstheses/Accession89-10MIT/Gandy_RMITthesis2009.pdf.

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Fester, Heather Renae. "Rhetoric and The Scholarship of Engagement: Pragmatic, Professional, and Ethical Convergences." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1237857845.

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Azordegan, Jennifer M. "School-family relationships in diverse Australia: A sociological case study of the connections between a school community and parents from an Afghan refugee background." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2019. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/136522/1/Jennifer_Azordegan_Thesis.pdf.

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This theory-led case study investigated how a Queensland primary school is engaging parents from an Afghan refugee background. Employing sociologist Pierre Bourdieu's comprehensive approach to researching social fields, this research draws from interviews with school staff and parents to explore how parent engagement was approached and perceived by the participants, and how it was influenced by external forces. This study sheds light on the complexities of forging effective school-family relationships in increasingly diverse societies. Amongst the study's contributions are a 4-pillared ethical

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Bennett, Jeffrey V. "Community-based learning and social support in the Midwestern District high school internship program relative influences on seniors' occupational and citizenship engagement orientations /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1164659045.

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Keck, Tracey. "The impact of human resource capital on ethnic minority middle school students' engagement in a mathematics community of practice and their mathematics identities." Greensboro, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2007. http://libres.uncg.edu/edocs/etd/1479Keck/umi-uncg-1479.pdf.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2007.<br>Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Feb. 29, 2008). Directed by Ceola Ross Baber; submitted to the School of Education. Includes bibliographical references (p. 108-124).

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Grobler, Lidalize. "Parent and caregiver experiences of a higher education rural school partnership providing educational psychology services." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/60943.

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The purpose of this study was to explore and describe parents' and caregivers' retrospective experiences of a higher education-rural school partnership providing educational psychology services. The study aimed to inform knowledge on community engagement with schools and forms part of the broad FLY (Flourishing Learning Youth) community engagement initiative that has been ongoing since 2006. The current study utilised interpretivism as metatheory and qualitative research as methodological paradigm. An instrumental case study design was utilised, with a specific higher education-rural school pa

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Olinge, Evelina. "Attityd till högre utbildning och studieengagemang bland gymnasieelever på landsbygd : Attitude to higher education and study engagement among high school students in a rural community." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för sociala och psykologiska studier, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-33405.

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Martin, Michael Steven. "Vermont's Sacred Cow: A Case Study of Local Control of Schools." ScholarWorks @ UVM, 2017. http://scholarworks.uvm.edu/graddis/737.

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ABSTRACT When it comes to school governance, the concept of "local control" endures as a powerful social construct in some regions of the United States. In New England states, where traditional town meetings and small school districts still exist as important local institutions, the idea of local control is still an important element of policy considerations, despite increasing state and federal regulation of education in recent years. With its small school districts and myriad governance structures, Vermont represents an extreme case example of the intersection between participatory democracy

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Geller, Rachel. "Schools Uniting Neighborhoods: Sustainability and Racial Equity in a Community Schools Initiative." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2018. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1210.

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Schools Uniting Neighborhoods (SUN), a collaborative initiative in Multnomah County, Oregon, combines the increasingly popular community school model with an innovative organizational structure to further two key goals: sustainability as an initiative and furthering racial equity. This thesis situates SUN within the context of American public education reform and existing literature on the positive outcomes, organizational structures, and leadership components of community schools. Building on past reviews of SUN and its outcomes, I use results from qualitative interviews with key stakeholders

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Fortey, Emma. "Exploring the perspectives of community workers engaging with schools in relation to work with gender and sexuality diverse young people." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2021. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/207782/1/Emma_Fortey_Thesis.pdf.

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The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore community workers’ perspectives of their interactions with secondary schools in Queensland as part of the work they do with gender and sexuality diverse young people. Semi-structured interviews were used to examine what community workers reported as the enablers and constraints in their day-to-day work practices and experiences. The interview data was analysed using reflexive thematic analysis. Recommendations outline some strategies to improve community worker and school collaborations and the transformative possibilities for more inclusive

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Filon, Michele R. "To Tweet or not to Tweet." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1457364934.

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Hobart, Leigh. "The current context of Queensland primary teacher engagement with professional learning through professional associations." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2009. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/46122/1/Leigh_Hobart_Thesis.pdf.

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Engaging Queensland primary teachers in professional associations can be a challenge, particularly for subject-specific associations. Professional associations are recognised providers of professional learning. By not being involved in professional associations primary teachers are missing potential quality professional learning opportunities that can impact the results of their students. The purpose of the research is twofold: Firstly, to provide a thorough understanding of the current context in order to assist professional associations who wish to change from their current level of primary

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Lewis, Samuel. "Cultivating Youth Earth Connections Summer Internship Program (YEC): A Hands-on Environmental Justice Focused Farming Program at the High School Level." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2011. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/pomona_theses/115.

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YEC’s main goal was to open dialogue with high school students from under resourced communities about environmental injustices and to create and explore positive alternatives. The summer program, which was funded by the 2010 Davis Projects for Peace and the Pomona College Summer Undergraduate Research Project Award, included a group of 11 high school students from Pomona, Montclair, La Puente, and Chino Hills, CA. The students were paid to participate in the program for 6 weeks in the summer of 2010, five days a week, for 30 hours each week. The program was designed to consistently connect mov

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Oldham, Jean Allen. "Dating Violence on Small Rural College Campuses: Are Administrator and Student Perceptions Similar?" UKnowledge, 2014. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/khp_etds/16.

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In recent years dating violence has become more and more prevalent on college campuses. Reports of the range of dating violence vary widely, with studies reporting from 20% to 85% of college women experiencing dating violence. However, almost all research has been conducted among urban and/or large colleges and universities, with virtually no attention to what is happening on small and/or rural college and university campuses. When a possible 20% of college women have experienced dating violence on college campuses, there becomes a crucial need for administration at a college to have an accura

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Marion, Veronica D. "Improving Parental Involvement in an Inner-City Elementary School." ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/4652.

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A pattern of low parental involvement exists at in an inner-city school in the northeast region of the United States, where 90% of the students are students of color and fewer than 10% of parents attend school-based activities. Low parental involvement at the local school may lead to decreased student achievement and limited access to needed resources and information. A qualitative case study design was used to explore the problem. Epstein's typology, which includes the traditional definition of parental involvement and acknowledges the parents' role in the home, provided the conceptual framew

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Falls, Megan Lynn. "A small learning community intervention targeting sense of belonging impacts on student engagement and staff perception and the influence of autonomy /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1563274661&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Machimana, Eugene Gabriel. "Retrospective experiences of a rural school partnership : informing global citizenship as a higher education agenda." Thesis, University of Pretoria, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/60954.

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The purpose of this study was to inform global citizenship practice as a higher education (HE) agenda by comparing retrospective experiences of a range of community engagement (CE) partners, including the often silent voices of non-researcher partners. HE-CE aims to contribute to social justice as it constructs and transfers new knowledge from the perspectives of a wide range of CE-partners. This qualitative secondary analysis study was framed theoretically by the transformative-emancipatory paradigm and meta-theoretically by phenomenology. Existing case data, generated on retrospective experi

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Norris, Jessica R. "FOOD LANDSCAPES: A CASE STUDY OF A COOKING AND ART- FOCUSED PROGRAM FOR TEENS LIVING IN A FOOD DESERT." VCU Scholars Compass, 2014. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/3575.

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This study constructs themes and propositions about the experiences of youth participants in the fall 2013 Food Landscapes program at the Neighborhood Resource Center in Richmond, Virginia. During the program, youth participated in cooking-based volunteerism with adults with disabilities and created short videos about their experiences. In this study, I analyzed pre- and post-program participant interviews, twice-weekly program observations, and facilitator reflections to understand how Food Landscapes affected youths’ conception of community engagement and communication strategies. This case

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Jarrett, Glen. "Revisioning playground design for the developing world school campus: a nature playground proposal for La Chuscada, Nicaragua." Kansas State University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/19039.

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Master of Landscape Architecture<br>Landscape Architecture/Regional and Community Planning<br>Huston Gibson<br>Play is essential to the development of children, as it serves as the main platform for a child to begin to explore his or her world and understand their physical and social environment. It is not a frivolous activity, but a method of learning. Despite this recognition, many playground designs are still steered, wrongly so, by unwarranted societal fears of safety. Such playgrounds lack developmental benefits due to their composition of isolated, prefab plastic components on an asphalt

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Glass, Lindsey Heather. "A Case Study of an International Baccalaureate School within an Urban School District-University Partnership." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1464870792.

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Jackson, Ronnie. "A Study of the Relationship between Key Influencers as Motivators to Attendance, Behavior, Engagement, and Academic Achievement among Middle School Students in Metropolitan Atlanta Georgia." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 2014. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/cauetds/4.

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This study examines middle school students’ perceptions of the relationship between key influencers on student attendance, student behavior, student engagement, and academic achievement. Three hundred (300) survey participants were used in this mixed methods design, which consisted of an analysis of the independent variables affecting overall student motivation operationalized as Student Attendance, Student Behavior, Student Engagement, and Academic Achievement of eighth grade students. The survey participants were composed of two urban middle schools in a large public school system and a priv

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Rowley, Kristie J. "Setting boundaries monitoring the effects of closer-to-home school rezoning on student participation & engagement in school /." Diss., 2005. http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/ETD-db/available/etd-12022005-144026/.

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Reed, Luke Terence. "The effect of participation in school-facilitated community service programmes on students' self-esteem, sense of community engagement and attitudes to Christianity." 2006. http://dlibrary.acu.edu.au/digitaltheses/public/adt-acuvp142.17052007/index.html.

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Thesis (M.Ed. (Research)) -- Australian Catholic University, 2006.<br>Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Education (Research). Bibliography: p. 115-120. Also available in an electronic format via the internet.

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"A History of the Coolidge High School Band: Building a Rural Program through Community Engagement and Stakeholder Support, 1935–1980." Doctoral diss., 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.55577.

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abstract: This study examined the forty-five year history of a rural band program in Coolidge, Arizona from 1935–1980. Research questions included investigation into the band’s place in the diverse populations with whom they interacted, the stakeholders, and support from the community. Circumstances of the creation of the town, the high school and band, the stakeholders involved in those processes, the ensembles (including learning and teaching), and outside influences such as national level music policies, ecological, and socio-political events were a necessary part of the study. High school

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"A Place For Public Philosophy: Reviving A Practice." Tulane University, 2015.

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This dissertation is a presentation and defense of the idea that public philosophy is a valuable activity, and that public philosophy should be generally supported because it provides benefits to the people who engage in it, and it raises esteem for philosophy generally. Historically philosophy was, in some measure, geared more toward the general public than it is today. Examining the history of philosophy in the most general terms reveals a trend for philosophy, over time, to become less accessible to the public and more of a specialized and professional practice. Philosophy is an activity th

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ZENG, YI TING, and 曾翊婷. "A STUDY OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND THE SCHOOL EFFECTIVENESS AT PUBLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS IN NEW TAIPEI CITY." Thesis, 2017. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/80348518401700492714.

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碩士<br>輔仁大學<br>教育領導與發展研究所碩士在職專班<br>105<br>The purpose of this study is to understand the current status and relationship of community engagement and school effectiveness of public elementary schools in New Taipei City. The survey research method was used to collect the data of the principals, the directors, and the headleaders of public elementary schools in New Taipei City. By stratified radom sampling, total of 600 questionnaires were sent, and 503 questionnnaires were valid, yielding valid return rates of 83.83%. The data were analyzed by descriptive statistics analysis, independent sample t

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"The impact of human resource capital on ethnic minority middle school students' engagement in a mathematics community of practice and their mathematics identities." THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO, 2008. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3295230.

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McArthur, Polly McClanahan. "Case Study: Community Perspectives of a Service Learning Partnership Involving One School of Nursing in the Southeastern United States." 2010. http://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_graddiss/826.

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The purpose of this single case study was to describe community perspectives of a service learning (SL) partnership with a single university conferring a baccalaureate nursing degree. The longevity of the partnership extended the study purpose to explain why the partnership continued and worked well. A review of nursing literature revealed descriptive accounts of programs designed to meet needs of underserved populations and student learners. However, the review also revealed a knowledge gap in nursing education science regarding the community perspectives of successful SL partnerships. This s

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Whitmore, Kristen. "Envisioning Pathways toward Transformative Food Systems Change: Understanding the Role of Multi-Stakeholder Engagement at the Culinary and Nutrition Center in Springfield, MA." 2019. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/masters_theses_2/862.

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The alternative food movement claims varied goals such as building environmental sustainability, strengthening local economies, and promoting health equity, yet critics argue that the movement’s transformative potential is threatened by a lack of shared vision. Literature suggests that community-based multi-stakeholder coalitions are a useful tool for building consensus around food systems futures. But what kinds of futures? Home Grown Springfield is a school food initiative aimed at reducing hunger in Springfield, MA by serving healthy, homemade, and locally-sourced meals via the Culinary and

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Noyola, Sonia Adriana. "From class to club : an exploration of high school civic-minded student organizations from 1996-2011 in Corpus Christi, Texas." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/26896.

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Our educational system has long claimed that preparing students to be active citizens is one of its main goals. With high-stakes testing pressures, schools with high minority enrollment have been found to cut back social studies programs and/or implement a drill and practice fragmented teaching style. (Center on Education Policy, 2007; McNeil and Valenzuela, 2000). This research project seeks to understand how civic engagement opportunities were provided for, the impact of these opportunities on students and community members in Corpus Christi, Texas, during the last 15 years, and the ways

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Totikidis, Vicky. "Understanding community wellness from a multicultural perspective." Thesis, 2003. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/24524/.

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This research was part of the first phase of a broader action research project known as the Community Wellness Project. The project was initiated by Isaac Prilleltensky and Heather Gridley from Victoria University and involved a partnership between Victoria University and Good Shepherd Youth and Family Service, St Albans (Melbourne, Australia). The present study aimed to explore Prilleltensky’s community wellness model and cycle of praxis in qualitative research with diverse community members from the St Albans region of Melbourne. The emphasis of the study was on the ideals, needs and strengt

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Lauermann, Marek. "Vymezení konceptu komunitní školy v českém školském systému." Doctoral thesis, 2019. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-394266.

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This dissertation is designed as a theoretical research study, whose aim is to explore the possibilities of mapping and development of the community aspect of schools. This field of study is still relatively unexplored. The goal of this dissertation is to outline theoretically the concept of a Community school, and to stress the change of paradigm of current education and focus on how the role of school changes in current society. The dissertation also focuses on theoretical aspects of school perception and current scientific knowledge in given area. The research focuses on the analysis and ch

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Demediuk, Peter. "The form and function of local government community engagement initiatives : Swedish case studies." Thesis, 2010. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/30097/.

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The aim of local governments to increase community engagement is an emergent global phenomenon. Ideally, community engagement initiatives connect the community with their government so that citizens can have a say in the things that really matter to them. Mounting internal or external pressure for more citizen participation moves the focus from 'local government' to 'local governance',. And presents professional practices with the challenge of determining the ends for participation, and responding with the appropriate means - given the local economic, social, political and technological conte

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Smith, Sue Erica. "To be wise and kind: a Buddhist community engagement with Victorian state primary schools." Thesis, 2010. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/15538/.

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This is a case study of the development of the Buddhist Education in Victorian Schools program in state primary schools. It is located alongside the theoretical and policy frameworks of Australian state schooling and a growing but disparate international movement that is applying meditative techniques and principles with roots in the Buddha- Dharma in secular and pluralist education. The meta-ethics of wisdom and compassion, it is argued, are the foundation for spiritual education, personal development and positively engaged citizenship in the Dharma. These are also and congruent with the int

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Sloane, Alysha. "Theatre of the commons: a theatrical inquiry into the democratic engagement of former refugee families in public high school communities." 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/5149.

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This thesis describes a study that examined the creation of a theatrical commons that aimed to broaden and deepen democratic engagement among diverse citizens in one public school community. The researcher considered how Forum and Image Theatre (Boal,1979, 1995, 1998, 2002; Diamond,2007) help people to name and invent different possibilities to address complex school community challenges at an individual and community level. It involved former refugee youth, guardians, parents and the general public as they critiqued the potential of a theatrical commons to represent their voices which are at

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