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Resources Scroll down for a list of current resources related to civic engagement efforts in higher education. General Resources iChapters "Plant a Tree" Program NEW!
Moving Volunteers from Service to Civic Engagement - Online Course NEW!
Beyond project leadership, volunteers can be encouraged to move up the ladder from service to civics. In this session, you will learn to recognize your program as an avenue to get volunteers engaged in issues education and greater civic roles within their communities. Define civic engagement, explore the dimensions of civic participation, and plan how to apply civic skills. This online course was created cooperatively by the Corporation for National and Community Service, Hands On Network, and ETR Associates. Visit this link to learn more.
YSA Launches ServiceVote 2008 Youth Service America has launched this website for young people to find out what the 2008 Presidential Candidates are saying about service-learning and to have their voice heard at http://www.servicevote.org
Global Youth Connect Summer International Human Rights Training Program Youth ages 18-30 are invited to participate in upcoming human rights delegations to Bosnia, Guatemala, Rwanda, or Venezuela. Delegations allow youth to cross cultural boundaries and learn about the daily reality of human rights as experienced in a complex and globalized world. To learn more, visit http://globalyouthconnect.org/participate.html The International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement (IARSLCE) Seeks Graduate Students Members! IARSLCE, launched in 2005, has grown considerably in its first year and now has over 600 members.
Listserv for Community Partners! Are you a community member, community partner or community-academic liaison interested in connecting with your peers to build greater capacity, support each other in your work, and strengthen the collective network of community partners engaging in community-higher education partnerships? If so, consider joining the Community Partner Listserv and/or Community Partner Workgroups, established as a direct result of the Wingspread Community Partner Summit (CPS) convened in 2006. This electronic discussion group focuses on issues specific to the community partner perspective when engaged in community-higher education partnerships. The listserv aims to support conversations emerging among community partners engaged in community-higher education partnerships who are seeking to achieve sustainable and systemic change through their work. Visit the Community Partner Summit webpage at http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/cps.html#Join
Work-Based Learning: Bridging Knowledge and Action in the Workplace NEW! New and Revised by Joseph A. Raelin To be released in March 2008 Work-based learning is Joe Raelin's unique way of incorporating a number of action strategies such as action learning, action science, and communities of practice into a comprehensive framework to help people learn collectively with others. In this thoroughly updated and revised edition, he demonstrates how to engage our reflective powers to challenge those taken-for-granted assumptions that unwittingly hold us back from questioning standard ways of operating. A well-known popular author, Joe is an avid student of the many traditions that support work-based learning, so he presents an inclusive model that has wide appeal across disciplines and occupations. He provides readers with the most recent updates in the field, such as his coverage of virtual team learning, portfolios, multisource feedback, critical and global action learning, and changes in educational policy. Whether you're an organizational or college educator, this book will help you make learning accessible to everyoneand even contagious within your organization!
Order through the CCPH website and receive a 15% discount: http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/books.html
Achieving the Promise of Authentic Community-Higher Academic Partnerships: This new report higlights community partner perspectives on community-higher education partnerships. The report is one of many outcomes of the Community Partner Summit that brought together experienced community partners from across the U.S. at the Wingspread Conference Center in Racine, Wisconsin in April 2006. In addition to offering key ingredients and a framework for authentic community-higher education partnerships, the report details a vision for these partnerships articulated by the Summit's community partner participants, along with strategies and recommendations on how to achieve this vision. The report also describes the work that has been done by these community partners and CCPH since the Summit in the areas of peer mentoring, policy development and advocacy.
The report is available as a PDF document on the Community Partner Summit webpage at http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/cps-summit.html#Products (while you're on the site, check out the other Summit publications and resources)
Learn more about the work that's continued since the Summit, including opportunities to get involved, at http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/cps.html.
Educating for Democracy In this book, coauthors show that education for political development can increase students' political understanding, skill, motivation, and involvement whilecontributing to many aspects of general academic learning.Go to http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0787985546.html for excerpts and the Table of Contents.Get a 15% discount on the book when ordered through the Community-Campus Partnerships for Health website at http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/books.html. Doing the Public Good Latina/o Scholars Engage Civic Participation Edited by Kenneth P. Gonzalez , Raymond V. Padilla How can scholars reconnect themselves—and their students—to higher education’s historic but much diluted mission to work for the public good? Through the lenses of personal reflection and auto-ethnography—and drawing on such rich philosophical foundations as the Spanish tradition of higher learning, the holistic Aztec concept of education, the Hispanic notion of bien educado, and the activist principles of the Chicano movement–these writers explore the intersections of private and public good, and how the tension between them has played out in their own lives and the commitments they have made to their intellectual community, and to their cultural and family communities. Through often lyrical memoirs, reflections, and poetry, these authors recount their personal journeys and struggles—often informed by a spiritual connectedness and always driven by a concern for social justice—and show how they have found individual paths to promoting the public good in their classrooms, and in the world beyond. http://www.styluspub.com/Books/BookDetail.aspx?productID=165028 Overcoming the Barriers to Higher Education Stephen Gorard, with Nick Adnett , Helen May , Kim Slack , Emma Smith , Liz Thomas There are serious inequalities in participation in post-compulsory education and training related to socio-economic status, gender, ethnicity and other characteristics. Such inequalities are reproduced and exacerbated in higher education. This book is based on a review of research evidence that asks whether these social and familial patterns can be interrupted via educational and other interventions. The answer lies in taking a radically new lifelong approach, considering changes over time and examining earlier life factors that influence participation–such as family, peer group and initial education, all of which help to build the learning trajectory of individuals that leads them to consider higher education. The impressive results make this book essential reading for practitioners and policy-makers concerned with widening participation, and for academics. http://www.styluspub.com/Books/BookDetail.aspx?productID=163541
Creating, Running and Sustaining Campus-Community Service-Learning Partnerships: Created by the Campus Compacts of Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont, this online handbook shares the voices and wisdom of individuals from colleges and universities and from community organizations in northern New England who have been involved in service-learning partnerships for several years or more. These partnership practitioners describe how they build, operate and sustain effective campus-community partnerships. Authored by Richard Schramm of the University of Vermont, this collection of campus-community partnership best practices is an outcome of important partnership work undertaken by campuses and community partners in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont as part of a Learn and Serve Higher Education grant from the Corporation for National and Community Service. Although the voices represented and the practices presented represent only a small percentage of the deep and meaningful relationships that we know exist, we hope that you will find these practices helpful. We invite you to read and use this collection. We hope it will generate further conversations and ideas related to creating, running and sustaining campus-community service-learning partnerships. This publication was supported by a Learn and Serve America Higher Education grant from the Corporation for National and Community Service.
To access this handbook, please visit: http://www.vtcampuscompact.org/downloadable_documents/VCC%20Partnership.pdf "Service-Learning Course Design for Community Colleges" Service-Learning Course Design for Community Colleges is packed with practical information such as sample course descriptions, detailed models, syllabi, and ready-to use tools. Inside you’ll also find frank discussions on the benefits of service-learning, the hurdles you may encounter, and step-by-step advice for introducing or expanding service-learning in any discipline. Books will ship in early November. 109 pages. http://www.compact.org/publications/detail/service-learning_course_design_for_community_colleges
Linking Colleges to Communities: Engaging the University for Community Development Electronic copies are available at http://www.community-wealth.org/articles/index.html Also the Democracy Collaborative's website includes a section on university-community partnerships (www.community-wealth.org/strategies/panel/universities/index.html) and another that focuses more broadly on anchor institutions (www.community-wealth.org/strategies/panel/anchors/index.html). They update their website on a quarterly basis and their work on universities, community partnerships, and the economic role of anchor institutions is ongoing. If you have suggestions for additional links and information they might want to add to the site, please email them to the report's principal author Steve Dubb at sgdubb@yahoo.com.
Engaged Scholarship: A Guide for Organizational and Social Research This book, by Andrew H. Van de Ven, Vernon H. Heath Professor of Organizational Innovation and Change, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota, both provides a manifesto for engaged scholarship in the social sciences, and clear framework for research design and methodology. It will be an invaluable reference point and guide for academics, researchers and graduate students across the social sciences concerned with rigorous and relevant research in the contemporary world. Contents 1. Engaged Scholarship in a Professional School 2. Philosophy of Science Underlying Engaged Scholarship 3. Formulating the Research Problem 4. Building a Theory 5. Process and Variance Models 6. Designing Variance Studies 7. Designing Process Studies 8. Communicating and Using Research Knowledge 9. Practicing Engaged Scholarship Details at: http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780199226290
Other Recommended Books from Stylus Publishing
http://www.styluspub.com/books/Books.aspx?type=topic&ID=334 Gender Identity, Equity, and Violence: Multidisciplinary Perspectives Through Service Learning Edited by Geraldine B. Stahly May 2007 In Safe Hands: A Global Concept of Service Learning in Higher Education Edited by Jean Clarkson January 2008 A New Weave of Power, People, and Politics: The Action Guide for Advocacy and Citizen Participation Lisa VeneKlasen, Valerie Miller April 2007 Race, Poverty, and Social Justice: Multidisciplinary Perspectives through Service Learning Edited by José Z. Calderón June 2007 Promoting Health and Wellness in Underserved Communities: Multidisciplinary Perspectives through Service Learning Edited by Anabel Pelham, Elizabeth Sills June 2008 Research, Advocacy, and Political Engagement: Multidisciplinary Perspectives through Service Learning Edited by Sally Tannenbaum June 2007 |
