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Author : Catherine Flavin
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Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Busy Citizen's Discussion Guide written by Catherine Flavin and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul Rogat Loeb
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312204353
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Soul of a Citizen written by Paul Rogat Loeb and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1999-03-15 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Questions for Reading Groups
Author : Katherine Cramer Walsh
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226869083
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)
Download or read book Talking about Race written by Katherine Cramer Walsh and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is a perennial question: how should Americans deal with racial and ethnic diversity? More than 400 communities across the country have attempted to answer it by organizing discussions among diverse volunteers in an attempt to improve race relations. In Talking about Race, Katherine Cramer Walsh takes an eye-opening look at this strategy to reveal the reasons behind the method and the effects it has in the cities and towns that undertake it. With extensive observations of community dialogues, interviews with the discussants, and sophisticated analysis of national data, Walsh shows that while meeting organizers usually aim to establish common ground, participants tend to leave their discussions with a heightened awareness of differences in perspective and experience. Drawing readers into these intense conversations between ordinary Americans working to deal with diversity and figure out the meaning of citizenship in our society, she challenges many preconceptions about intergroup relations and organized public talk. Finally disputing the conventional wisdom that unity is the only way forward, Walsh prescribes a practical politics of difference that compels us to reassess the place of face-to-face discussion in civic life and the critical role of conflict in deliberative democracy.
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Total Pages : 358 pages
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Download or read book Resources in Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1999-10 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James C. Hanks
Publisher : American Bar Association
ISBN 13 : 9781590314654
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (146 download)
Download or read book School Violence written by James C. Hanks and published by American Bar Association. This book was released on 2004 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a comprehensive review of major legal issues relating to school violence, this resource provides important and useful guidance for dealing with these very timely issues. Topics include student violence and harassment, weapons in schools, searching students in schools, zero tolerance policies, due process for students, threats and threatening communications at school, school liability, and much more.
Author : Rosemary O'Leary
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1848552904
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (485 download)
Download or read book Pushing the Boundaries written by Rosemary O'Leary and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2008-11-13 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains papers presented at a conference, entitled 'Cutting Edge Theories and Recent Developments in Conflict Resolution'. This work explores some of the major themes of conflict analysis, including how dominant discourses can soothe and exacerbate conflict, and the importance of a structural understanding of ethnocentrism and racism.
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Total Pages : 228 pages
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Download or read book Youth Violence Prevention written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Youth Violence Prevention in Public Housing. The Clinton-Gore Administration has taken steps to reduce youth violence in public housing. Working together, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention developed the youth violence prevention program resource handbook that identifies current practices and model programs for youth violence prevention programming in community settings. HUD also provides training and technical assistance to local communities through the Youth Violence Prevention in Public Housing Program"--Website for Clinton White House years.
Author : Steven G. Brint
Publisher : Russell Sage Foundation
ISBN 13 : 1610445910
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (14 download)
Download or read book Evangelicals and Democracy in America written by Steven G. Brint and published by Russell Sage Foundation. This book was released on 2009-08-13 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the end of the nineteenth century, the vast majority of U.S. churches were evangelical in outlook and practice. America's turn toward modernism and embrace of science in the early twentieth century threatened evangelicalism's cultural prominence. But as confidence in modern secularism wavered in the 1960s and 1970s, evangelicalism had another great awakening. The two volumes of Evangelicals and Democracy in America trace the development and current role of evangelicalism in American social and political life. Volume I focuses on who evangelicals are today, how they relate to other groups, and what role they play in U.S. social institutions. Part I of Religion and Society examines evangelicals' identity and activism. Contributor Robert Wuthnow explores the identity built around the centrality of Jesus, church and community service, and the born-again experience. Philip Gorski explores the features of American evangelicalism and society that explain the recurring mobilization of conservative Protestants in American history. Part II looks at how evangelicals relate to other key groups in American society. Individual chapters delve into evangelicals' relationship to other conservative religious groups, women and gays, African Americans, and mainline Protestants. These chapters show sources of both solidarity and dissension within the "traditionalist alliance" and the hidden strengths of mainline Protestants' moral discourse. Part III examines religious conservatives' influence on American social institutions outside of politics. W. Bradford Wilcox, David Sikkink, Gabriel Rossman, and Rogers Smith investigate evangelicals' influence on families, schools, popular culture, and the courts, respectively. What emerges is a picture of American society as a consumer marketplace with a secular legal structure and an arena of pluralistic competition interpreting what constitutes the public good. These chapters show that religious conservatives have been shaped by these realities more than they have been able to shape them. Evangelicals and Democracy in America, Volume I is one of the most comprehensive examinations ever of this important current in American life and serves as a corrective to erroneous popular representations. These meticulously balanced studies not only clarify the religious and social origins of evangelical mobilization, but also detail both the scope and limits of evangelicals' influence in our society. This volume is the perfect complement to its companion in this landmark series, Evangelicals and Democracy in America, Volume II: Religion and Politics.
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Total Pages : 244 pages
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Download or read book The Journal of Intergroup Relations written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 338 pages
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Download or read book Journal of Intergroup Relations written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul Lichterman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400842956
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Elusive Togetherness written by Paul Lichterman and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-06 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many scholars and citizens alike have counted on civic groups to create broad ties that bind society. Some hope that faith-based civic groups will spread their reach as government retreats. Yet few studies ask how, if at all, civic groups reach out to their wider community. Can religious groups--long central in civic America--create broad, empowering social ties in an unequal, diverse society? Over three years, Paul Lichterman studied nine liberal and conservative Protestant-based volunteering and advocacy projects in a mid-sized American city. He listened as these groups tried to create bridges with other community groups, social service agencies, and low-income people, just as the 1996 welfare reforms were taking effect. Counter to long-standing arguments, Lichterman discovered that powerful customs of interaction inside the groups often stunted external ties and even shaped religion's impact on the groups. Comparing groups, he found that successful bridges outward depend on group customs which invite reflective, critical discussion about a group's place amid surrounding groups and institutions. Combining insights from Alexis de Tocqueville, John Dewey, and Jane Addams with contemporary sociology, Elusive Togetherness addresses enduring questions about civic and religious life that elude the popular "social capital" concept. To create broad civic relationships, groups need more than the right religious values, political beliefs, or resources. They must learn new ways of being groups.
Author : João Helion Costa Vargas
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Total Pages : 1522 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Blacks in the City of Angels' Dust written by João Helion Costa Vargas and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 1522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kathy Gardner Chadwick
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 163220004X
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (322 download)
Download or read book Improving Schools through Community Engagement written by Kathy Gardner Chadwick and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-10-21 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engage your community and help students achieve their full potential! Americans see public schools as a critical community resource and rank education as a priority second only to the economy. How can educators harness this public interest in education to bring parents, families, and communities to action for our schools? Improving Schools Through Community Engagement addresses these questions and more in this invaluable source of methods and strategies for educators to initiate action. Involvement of family and community members has a significant impact on student achievement. This handy resource provides a framework that education leaders can use in designing and implementing initiatives to more effectively engage the public by: • Framing a clear focus for community engagement • Identifying and including representatives from each diverse constituency group • Developing an understanding of the varied perspectives of these groups • Presenting strategies to encourage constituent involvement and action A more engaged community results in improved teaching and learning. The energy of parents, teachers, and communities working together starts small and spreads over time. If everyone gets involved, the possibilities for action are limitless!
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Total Pages : 540 pages
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Download or read book Grassroots Economic Organizing Newsletter written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Levine
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1461732301
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (617 download)
Download or read book The New Progressive Era written by Peter Levine and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 1999-12-22 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A century ago, Americans launched a period of civic renewal and political reform. Today, amid deep dissatisfaction with our major institutions, there are signs that a new movement may revive the spirit of the original Progressive Era. Peter Levine draws inspiration from the great Progressive leader Robert M. La Follete, Sr., and his circle, which included John Dewey, Jane Addams, and Louis Brandeis. He discusses the shortcomings of this group as well as their successes, but he argues that their ideal of a fair and deliberative democracy is right for our time. Combining their philosophy and experience with the best contemporary proposals, Levine advocates campaign finance reform, an entirely different approach to regulation, new styles of journalism and civic education, and fundamental changes in the tax system. Combining philosophical arguments, historical background, empirical data, and concrete proposals, The New Progressive Era offers todayOs most comprehensive plan for civic renewal and political reform.
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Total Pages : 108 pages
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Download or read book Quality Now! written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The ERIC Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides information on programs, research, publications, and services of ERIC, as well as critical and current education information.
