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Learning to ‘be’ an activist: Exploring the relationship between activism and informal education in a youth activism group case study

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Young people in the United States (and beyond) access spaces for activism in varied ways, including the out‐of‐school time sector, where youth activism (YA) groups draw on informal learning pedagogies to engage young people in collective action.
Laura Weiner
wiley   +1 more source

Growing North Minneapolis: Connecting Youth and Community through Garden-based Experiential Learning

HortTechnology, 2019
Growing North Minneapolis (GNM) is an urban agriculture and youth development summer program sited in the North Minneapolis, MN, neighborhood. The program is a university–community partnership between faculty at the University of Minnesota (UMN) and ...
Mary Rogers , Illana Livstrom , Brandon Roiger , Amy Smith   +3 more
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Bridging home, school and community to address educational inequality: Supporting educational trajectories through community bridge work

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores the role of community stakeholders in supporting the educational trajectories of students experiencing socio‐economic disadvantage in the Irish context. Building on international and national policy debates, the study examines how community‐based organisations, statutory services and outreach initiatives work alongside ...
Aoife Joy Keogh, Deirdre McGillicuddy
wiley   +1 more source

Contexts of Educational Aspirations and School Grades of Rural Students

RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2022
Youth development researchers have focused on persistent challenges facing youth in diverse urban settings; thus, we know less about youth in rural communities.
Alejandra Miranda , Michael C. Rodriguez
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Contrasting roles of school and public libraries in lower primary pupils' reading

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Libraries represent an important institutional component of children's reading socialisation, yet their role is often treated as uniform despite substantial differences between school and public libraries. This study examines how visits to school and public libraries relate to pupils' reading attitudes, practices and self‐assessed reading ...
Kateřina Balcarová, Jiří Balcar
wiley   +1 more source

Science and Technology Networks: A Helping Hand to Boost Implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030?

International Journal of Disaster Risk Science, 2017
The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030 underlines the importance of Science and Technology (S&T) and S&T networks for effective disaster risk reduction (DRR). The knowledge of existing S&T networks and their exact role in DRR, however,
Robert Šakić Trogrlić, Lydia Cumiskey, Annisa Triyanti, Melanie J. Duncan, Nuha Eltinay, Rick J. Hogeboom, Mansi Jasuja, Chinaporn Meechaiya, Christina J. Pickering, Virginia Murray   +9 more
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‘Sometimes, I would look at my books and cry because I felt like I was left behind’: Understanding the learning of Indigenous girls during the COVID‐19 pandemic in the districts of Chongwe and Solwezi in Zambia

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Grounded in principles of epistemic justice, this article examines the educational impacts of Zambia's COVID‐19 school closures on Indigenous girls in two districts and highlights community‐led pathways for resilience. National responses prioritised broadcast and digital delivery but presupposed access to electricity, digital devices and ...
Marcellus Forh Mbah, Leigh Jarvis, Ane Turner Johnson, Chidi Ezegwu, Priscillah Nsama, Austine Nakanga   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Engaging Theological Education with Young People for Urban Flourishing

African Theological Journal for Church and Society
This article situates theological education within the strategic vision of contributing to an emerging, thriving African city. It examines the challenges and opportunities that face urban youth, particularly in Nairobi, and then offers creative ...
Otieno Oguok
doaj  

Beyond standardisation, subjects and syllabi: How primary schools organise for arts richness in an era of curriculum reform

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract As England embarks on its first comprehensive curriculum review in fifteen years, this paper offers critical insights from schools that sustained arts‐rich provision despite a policy landscape hostile to creative subjects. Drawing on data from the Researching Arts‐rich Primary Schools (RAPS) project—a mixed‐methods study of 76 arts‐rich ...
Pat Thomson, Christine Hall
wiley   +1 more source

Listening and Making Beats With the Birds: An Outdoor Music‐Based Toolkit for Youth Engagement and Conservation Technologies

The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, EarlyView.
Abstract Biodiversity loss and unequal access to nature limit both ecological knowledge and opportunities for experiential learning. Here I present a portable, power outlet–independent educational toolkit that integrates AI‐assisted bird detection (Haikubox, BirdNET‐Pi, Merlin Bird ID) with off‐the‐shelf sound‐recording and music‐creation hardware ...
Diego Ellis‐Soto
wiley   +1 more source