Society and the multiple communities of higher education by Milly Daweti

“…This paper investigates the possibilities and complexities of community building from national and institutional perspectives. …”
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Contending food sovereignty with cultivating kinship through community gardens by Max Sano

“…Valle’s Gardening on the Margins underscores the importance of engaging in anthropological research through community building in a way that resonates with my entry into food systems research. …”
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Decolonizing Evaluation of Indigenous Land-Based Programs: A Settler Perspective on What We Can Learn from the LANDBACK Movement by Deborah DeLancey

“… There is increasing recognition of the importance of land-based programming in promoting Indigenous cultural resurgence and community-building. This article explores the challenges associated with evaluation of on the land programs, and considers ontological and epistemological challenges associated with applying a postpositivist western evaluation approach. …”
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The Camera as a Social Catalyst by Haragonics Sára

“…The method addresses the representation and self-representation of participants along social fault lines through filmmaking, it is based on the principle of dialogue and aims at community building and participation. The method is hopefully applicable in other countries, as the democratising potential of participatory filmmaking for at least partially redressing existing inequalities can be utilized in other locations as well.1…”
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Society and the multiple communities of higher education by Milly Daweti

“…This paper investigates the possibilities and complexities of community building from national and institutional perspectives. …”
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The surge in New University Presses and Academic-Led Publishing by Janneke Adema, Graham Stone

“…Based on this analysis, the article argues for the development of a publishing toolkit, for further research into the creation of a typology of presses and publishing initiatives, and for support with community building to help these initiatives grow and develop further, whilst promoting a more diverse publishing ecology. …”
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Literacy and oracy across the U.S.-Mexico border: a look at the Plazas Comunitarias programme by Sanchez Tyson, LST

“…Additionally, I suggest that beyond facilitating overall reading development, the Plazas programme fulfils a key literacy function by fostering community building and provides access routes to community-based civil society organisations and key social institutions for immigrant groups.…”

ONLINE LEARNING: NEW MODELS FOR LEADERSHIP AND ORGANIZATION IN HIGHER EDUCATION by George Otte

“…The dichotomy of distance learning vs. campus-based education has broken down, and forward-looking senior administrators have embraced new approaches to education that contain the elements of successful online education while cultivating the community-building and branding of site-based education, particularly to promote enriched faculty and program development. …”
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The Social Dimension of Asynchronous Learning Networks by Rupert Wegerif

“…Finally recommendations are made for the support of community building in the design of courses. …”
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Decolonising learning development through reflective and relational practice by Julia Bohlmann

“…The piece stresses the importance of reflection about our role as practitioners within a colonial Higher Education system and of relating to our students as individuals by learning their names and breaking barriers to participation with rapport and community building activities. …”
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Responding to the Call to Curate: Digital Curation in Practice at Penn State University Libraries by Patricia Hswe, Michael J. Furlough, Michael J. Giarlo, Mairéad Martin

“…Second, we report on the hiring of a Digital Collections Curator and a Digital Library Architect and how they are advancing the program by putting digital curation into practice, which includes the work of community building. Finally, we address the organizational context of curation in practice, in particular with respect to the challenges of starting and sustaining a stewardship services program for all of Penn State.…”
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Digitale Wissenschaftskommunikation im und mit dem Wikiversum. Erfahrungen aus der SLUB Dresden by Jens Bemme, Martin Munke

“…Yet we can benefit from these potentials on both sides: in scholarly communication, for increased visibility of digital collections, crowdsourcing-based indexing projects, collaborative editions, open bibliographic metadata and for community building.The paper shows how the tools and methods of the Wikimedia portals are used for the scholarly communication of a state and university library, both for citizen science and for professional research projects. …”
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SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH:THE QUEST FOR A S&T NATIONAL POLICY. by Márcio da Silveira Luz, Isabel Cristina dos Santos

“…This work presents the process of the Brazilian scientific-technological community building, having as backstage the political context and the technology based industries generation efforts. …”
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The Mass-Line, 1917 to 1989: Chinese Experience by Robert H. Emerton

“…Grassroots mobilization and community-building has been held up as a solution that keeps revolution “revolutionary” by reforming social relations and personal conduct. …”
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Responding to the Call to Curate: Digital Curation in Practice at Penn State University Libraries by Patricia Hswe, Michael J. Furlough, Michael J. Giarlo, Mairéad Martin

“…Second, we report on the hiring of a Digital Collections Curator and a Digital Library Architect and how they are advancing the program by putting digital curation into practice, which includes the work of community building. Finally, we address the organizational context of curation in practice, in particular with respect to the challenges of starting and sustaining a stewardship services program for all of Penn State.…”
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Collaborative living: social cohesion trajectories for a new community welfare by Giordana Ferri, Angela Silvia Pavesi, Marta Gechelin, Rossana Zaccaria

“…Providing homes means designing efficient buildings but also making available platforms capable of activating local community building resources. Co-operative type social management in Italy today is embodied by social housing action determining a de facto new welfare model and the experience of the Laboratorio sul Gestore Sociale Cooperativo has opened up new scalability potential for this model.…”
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Chapeau à vous : French-minority Language Teachers’ Pandemic Pedagogies by Gail Cormier, Andrea Burke-Saulnier

“…Three main themes explored were the integration of technology into language teaching, language teacher collaboration and linguistic community building with students. …”
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Examining the Affordances of an Online Learning Platform: A Usefulness Theoretical Perspective by Sijia Xue, Chuang Wang, Mirebanguli Muhaimaiti

“…A range of educational affordances emerged from the results, including Representation, Resource sharing, Community-building, Promoting interaction, and Administration. …”
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Picture-Perfect Fish Stories: Homemaking through American Tall Tale Photographic Postcards by Esther Scholtes

“…Furthermore, postcards are significant vehicles in storytelling and community building. In the early twentieth century, a peculiar type of photographic postcard became popular in the Midwest and Great Plains regions depicting farmers with outrageously oversized crops and livestock. …”
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Using Social Media to Engage Communities with Research: Creating a Community Through Best Practices by Tyus Williams, Kathryn A. Stofer, Kirsten Hecht, Lisa Lundgren

“…The objective of this new 5-page publication of the Department of Agricultural Education and Communication is to guide people through the preliminary stages of online community building to engage with a community about science. …”
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