scholarly journals DESEM, Dokuz Eylül University lifelong learning center: Community-based, multilayer training support on lifelong

2016 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 01007
Author(s):  
Ahu Pakdemirli ◽  
Yasemin Baskın ◽  
Serdar Nart ◽  
Lale Gert ◽  
Deniz Kuru ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
Learning Center ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Training Support

Better Together

2018 ◽  
pp. 1229-1249
Author(s):  
Michelle R. Desilets ◽  
Jennifer DeJonghe ◽  
Michelle Filkins
Keyword(s):  
Community Engagement ◽  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
Saint Paul ◽  
Public Library ◽  
Learning Center ◽  
State University ◽  
Collaborative Relationships ◽  
Current State ◽  
Shared Space ◽  
History Of

The Library and Learning Center at Metropolitan State University is a shared space between the Metropolitan State University Library and a branch of the Saint Paul Public Library system. This chapter reviews the literature on joint use libraries and provides a history of the planning and development of the Library and Learning Center. In detailing the history of both organizations and the current state of collaboration ten years after the building opened, this chapter will describe how the experience at Metropolitan State aligns with that of similar joint use libraries. Furthermore, by highlighting collaborative services and programming, the chapter will be instructive for libraries that wish to form collaborative relationships outside of a joint use model. It will also describe the strengths of the joint use model in meeting the shared goals of community engagement and lifelong learning, while remaining cognizant of the challenges that are inherent in any joint use library initiative.

Spaces and places for popular education and participatory action research

2020 ◽  
pp. 41-56
Author(s):  
Marjorie Mayo
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Popular Education ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Community Based Education ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Informal Settings

Governments have supported popular education initiatives in the past. And so have community organisations and social movements. But the spaces for popular education have been shrinking in recent times, as part of the impact of neo-liberal globalisation. Public services have been increasingly subjected to pressures from market forces, pressures that have impacted on community-based education and lifelong learning. Despite these wider pressures, educators have continued to find spaces and places for popular education and participatory action research, however, working across sectors in a variety of contexts. The chapter includes examples of innovatory approaches in both formal settings and informal settings (such as libraries and community centres) including examples from both Northern and Southern American contexts.

Remaking Civic Formation: towards a learning citizen?

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terri Seddon
Keyword(s):  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
Citizenship Education ◽  
Educational Innovation ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Liberal Reform ◽  
Community Based Learning ◽  
Key Features ◽  
Contemporary Context ◽  
The Way

This paper uses three examples of educational innovation emerging in the contemporary context of market-liberal reform as a focus for exploring the patterns and possibilities of civic formation. The first part of the paper contextualises contemporary civic formation within the long historic struggle between capitalism and democracy, highlighting the way citizen learning is being reconfigured as markets and state are mediated by community interests. The last section attempts to draw out the key features of this community-based citizen learning and its implications for citizen learning and action. This discussion provides a basis for clarifying the kind of civic and citizenship education that is needed to take community-based learning beyond localism towards formal civic engagement that can sustain and protect democracy. The idea of a learning citizen is suggested as a way of conceptualising and acknowledging the contradictions within this citizenship agenda that holds the imperatives of lifelong learning in tension with the imperatives of educating citizen.

Evaluation of Community-Based Support Services for Families of Persons with Developmental Disabilities

1989 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 312-323 ◽  
Author(s):  
George H. S. Singer ◽  
Larry K. Irvin ◽  
Blair Irvine ◽  
Nancy Hawkins ◽  
Elizabeth Cooley
Keyword(s):  
Family Support ◽  
Support Groups ◽  
Support Services ◽  
Small Sample Size ◽  
Skills Training ◽  
Severe Disabilities ◽  
Respite Care ◽  
Small Sample ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Training Support

This article presents an evaluation of a multi-element parent and family support intervention for parents of school-aged persons with severe disabilities. Using an experimental design, we compared two randomly assigned groups of parents: one group received a modest level of support consisting of respite care and case management, and the second group received an intensive intervention that consisted of stress management and parenting skills training, support groups, and additional community-based respite care. Separate MANCOVA analyses were conducted for mothers and fathers. Mothers showed significant improvement on measures of depression and anxiety. Further analysis of the data revealed that a significantly greater number of intensive support group members also achieved clinically significant improvement on measures of anxiety and depression. Fathers participated in smaller numbers than mothers. A power analysis revealed large treatment effects for fathers as well as mothers although, due to the small sample size, the results for fathers were significant at p = 0.07. Analyses of 1-year follow-up data revealed that treatment gains maintained for mothers. We discuss the results and limitations of this study in light of current efforts to create family support services nationwide.

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