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Writing and Community Action

Author : Thomas Deans
Publisher : Pearson
ISBN 13 : 9780321094803
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (948 download)

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Download or read book Writing and Community Action written by Thomas Deans and published by Pearson. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing and Community Action: A Service-Learning Rhetoric and Reader encourages inquiry into community and social action issues, supports community-based research, and shepherds students through a range of service-learning writing projects. Several chapters offer pragmatic advice for crafting personal, reflective, and analytical essays, while service-learning chapters present experience-tested strategies for doing collaborative writing projects at nonprofit agencies, conducting research on pressing social problems, writing proposals that respond to campus and community concerns, and composing oral histories. The assignments help students to see themselves as writers whose work really matters. Provocative readings spark critical reflection on community service and a range of social concerns (including economic justice, literacy, education, homelessness, race, and identity). Focusing on invention, audience analysis, and the social purposes of writing, Writing and Community Action encourages students to adopt a rhetorical frame of mind. Hopeful in tone, this book makes clear the ways that writing can serve as action in both academic and community contexts.

Making Change

Author : Jeanne L Hites Anderson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000073947
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making Change written by Jeanne L Hites Anderson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06-03 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every community has issues or opportunities that need to be addressed. The expert knowledge of community members could be the key to creating lasting change. By making community members into facilitators, Making Change: Facilitating Community Action suggests they can guide community members through the process of making change and to help them determine their goals and methods. The aim of this book is to enable facilitators to identify concerns and address, enable and foster change at the local level through effective facilitation. This book follows a six-stage model for creating change. Beginning with issue awareness, it continues through getting to know the team they are working with, seeking information on the issue and community, through facilitating the planning and community development through evaluation. This book focuses on the human side of the change process while also teaching the practical skills necessary for individuals to reach their goal. Making Change is for people interested in making change to improve their community, including students, community activists, local government and educational leaders.

Communities in Action

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309452961
Total Pages : 583 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Communities in Action written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2017-04-27 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the United States, some populations suffer from far greater disparities in health than others. Those disparities are caused not only by fundamental differences in health status across segments of the population, but also because of inequities in factors that impact health status, so-called determinants of health. Only part of an individual's health status depends on his or her behavior and choice; community-wide problems like poverty, unemployment, poor education, inadequate housing, poor public transportation, interpersonal violence, and decaying neighborhoods also contribute to health inequities, as well as the historic and ongoing interplay of structures, policies, and norms that shape lives. When these factors are not optimal in a community, it does not mean they are intractable: such inequities can be mitigated by social policies that can shape health in powerful ways. Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity seeks to delineate the causes of and the solutions to health inequities in the United States. This report focuses on what communities can do to promote health equity, what actions are needed by the many and varied stakeholders that are part of communities or support them, as well as the root causes and structural barriers that need to be overcome.

Progressive Community Action

Author : Bharat Mehra
Publisher : Library Juice Press
ISBN 13 : 9781936117659
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book Progressive Community Action written by Bharat Mehra and published by Library Juice Press. This book was released on 2015-12 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social justice in library and information science (LIS) seeks to achieve action-oriented, socially relevant impacts through information work. This edited volume includes papers that explore intersections between critical theory and social justice in LIS while focusing on social relevance and community involvement to promote progressive community-wide changes. Contributors include LIS researchers, practitioners, educators, social justice advocates, and community leaders who identify theories, methods, approaches, strategies, and case studies that apply these intersections in mobilizing community action to deliver tangible community building and development outcomes. The frame of study is inclusive of (though not limited to) academic, public, school, and special libraries, museums, archives, and other information-related settings. An international context of analysis is included along with a focus on social impact and community involvement in LIS practice and research, education, policy development, service design, and program implementation.

Democracy, Dialogue, and Community Action

Author : Spoma Jovanovic
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 161075509X
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Democracy, Dialogue, and Community Action written by Spoma Jovanovic and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On November 3, 1979, five protest marchers in Greensboro, North Carolina, were shot and killed by the Ku Klux Klan and the American Nazi Party. There were no police present, but television crews captured the shootings on video. Despite two criminal trials, none of the killers ever served time for their crimes, exposing what many believed to be the inadequacy of judicial, political, and economic systems in the United States. Twenty-five years later, in 2004, Greensboro residents, inspired by post-apartheid South Africa, initiated a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) to take public testimony and examine the causes, sequence of events, and consequences of the massacre. The TRC was to be a process and a tool by which citizens could feel confident about the truth of the city's history in order to reconcile divergent understandings of past and current city values, and it became the foundation for the first Truth and Reconciliation Commission in the United States. Spoma Jovanovic, who worked alongside other community members to document the grassroots effort to convene the first TRC in the United States, provides a resource and case study of how citizens in one community used their TRC as a way to understand the past and conceive the future. This book preserves the historical significance of a people's effort to seek truth and work for reconciliation, shows a variety of discourse models for other communities to use in seeking to redress past harms, and demonstrates the power of community action to promote participatory democracy.

Israeli Community Action

Author : Paula Kabalo
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253050766
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Israeli Community Action written by Paula Kabalo and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the 1948 Israeli War of Independence broke out, population centers were rocked by sniper fire, bombings, and roadside ambushes. As the fighting moved out of the cities into desert areas, private citizens and community organizations left behind organized to revitalize and restore life in their devastated communities. In Israeli Community Action, Paula Kabalo presents a vivid portrait of these civilians who strove to help each other cope with the realities of war. Kabalo explores how civilian militias were recruited, how neighborhoods were protected, how older populations were enlisted into the war effort, and how women were organized to provide medical aid or establish refugee centers. She demonstrates that each phase of the war brought along new challenges to the population of the young state of Israel, but she also illuminates how the engagement of Israelis in community efforts brought them together and shored them up to face the future in their new country.

Community Action Leaders

Author : Beverly S. Bunch
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781138679795
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (797 download)

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Download or read book Community Action Leaders written by Beverly S. Bunch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assessing the Needs of the Community -- Use of the Community Needs Assessment -- Empowering Low-Income People -- Public Outreach and Education -- Conclusion -- Discussion Questions -- Notes -- References -- 5 Collaborating to Build Value -- Collaboration as a Guiding Principle -- Types of Collaborations -- Leadership and the Collaboration Imperative -- Responding to Leadership Challenges -- Conclusion -- Discussion Questions -- Notes -- References -- 6 Motivating and Aligning Human Resources -- Foundational Elements of an Effective Human Resource System

People with Disabilities

Author : Christopher Keys
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780789013118
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book People with Disabilities written by Christopher Keys and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This practical volume offers models for participatory action, coalition building, university-community collaboration, and program development. It lays out a step-by-step plan for a capacity-building approach to community empowerment. People with Disabilities: Empowerment and Community Action presents tested strategies for empowering a wide variety of people with disabilities, including Latinos, the aged, the developmentally disabled, low-income schoolchildren, and patients with chronic diseases.

Democracy in Action

Author : Kristina Smock
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231126735
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Democracy in Action written by Kristina Smock and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In cities across the US, grass-roots organizations are working to revitalize popular participation in disenfranchised communities by bringing ordinary people into public life. This book examines the techniques used to achieve these goals.

Community Action

Author : Community Action Program (U.S.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Community Action written by Community Action Program (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Community action and planning

Author : Gallent, Nick
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1447315162
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book Community action and planning written by Gallent, Nick and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2014-10-22 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With trust in top-down government faltering, community-based groups around the world are displaying an ever-greater appetite to take control of their own lives and neighbourhoods. Government, for its part, is keen to embrace the projects and the planning undertaken at this level, attempting to regularise it and use it as a means of reconnecting to citizens and localising democracy. This unique book analyses the contexts, drivers and outcomes of community action and planning in a selection of case studies in the global north: from emergent neighbourhood planning in England to the community-based housing movement in New York, and from active citizenship in the Dutch new towns to associative action in Marseille. It will be a valuable resource for academic researchers and for postgraduate students on social policy, planning and community development courses.

Community Action Research

Author : Roger N. Reeb
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136441514
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (364 download)

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Download or read book Community Action Research written by Roger N. Reeb and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover how to better help those in your community in need of services Community Action Research comprehensively explores models for community action research, incorporating quantitative and qualitative research to highlight the advantages to community members as well as the volunteers/paraprofessionals who implement the services. Respected experts present the latest research on the fulfillment of the needs of community members as well as the benefits to the volunteers and paraprofessionals, including psychological empowerment, psychological sense of community, and other facets of personal development. Community Action Research is helpfully organized into two sections. The first section presents a sample of empirical studies that examines whether community action research demonstrated benefits for community members. The second section provides empirical studies that show the positive impact of community action research on the personal development of volunteers and paraprofessionals who provided the research-related services. This detailed text is carefully referenced and uses several tables to enhance understanding of research data. Community Action Research discusses: the Adolescent Diversion Project as an alternative to juvenile court home-based behavior modification programs for autistic children the People Awakening Project and the role paraprofessionals played in Alaska Native sobriety a crime prevention project launched by a residential neighborhood association the Actual Community Empowerment Reading Program which utilized community members as literacy tutors the Community Service Self-Efficacy Scale’s reliability and validity the Hawaiian Studies Program’s weekly participation in community service-learning exercises and more! Community Action Research is insightful reading for psychologists, sociologists, social workers, criminal justice researchers and professionals, community counselors, practitioners and researchers in community prevention and intervention, clinical supervisors, service learning specialists, educators, students, and mental health and human services program administrators, planners, or evaluators.

Women and Community Action

Author : Lena Dominelli
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1861347081
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (613 download)

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Download or read book Women and Community Action written by Lena Dominelli and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2006-05-17 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Including case studies to illustrate the topics discussed, this title highlights women's role in a community's growth and development, taking into account the considerable changes in society since the first edition.

Women and Community Action 3e

Author : Dominelli, Lena
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1447341546
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book Women and Community Action 3e written by Dominelli, Lena and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2019-05-22 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historically, women and men have been assigned to different spaces in their communities. Although several decades of feminist social action have made significant progress to the social, economic and political condition of many women, change has been uneven and there remains considerable advancements to be made globally. This valuable third edition considers women’s changing position in the world today, updating some of the perennial challenges that women face and examining new and emerging issues including digital exclusion, sustainable community development and environmental justice. Published in association with the British Association of Social Workers, this book is an invaluable resource for students and practitioners of social work, community work, sociology and social policy.

Community action and growth management

Author : Briscoe, Maphis, Murray, and Lamont
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Community action and growth management written by Briscoe, Maphis, Murray, and Lamont and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Community Action for School Reform

Author : Howell S. Baum
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791486672
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book Community Action for School Reform written by Howell S. Baum and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents an innovative community approach to educational improvement. Community Action for School Reform tells the story of a partnership between Baltimore community activists and a university as they created an organization to improve neighborhood schools. The book examines the challenges they faced, such as persuading community members that they had the necessary knowledge to do something about the schools, starting and sustaining an organization, conducting and using research, engaging the school system, and funding their work. Howell S. Baum is Professor in the Urban Studies and Planning Program at the University of Maryland at College Park. He is the author of several books, including most recently, The Organization of Hope: Communities Planning Themselves, also published by SUNY Press.

Planning for Community Action

Author : Community Action Program (U.S.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)

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Download or read book Planning for Community Action written by Community Action Program (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: