Overcoming Faculty Fears About Civic Work: Reclaiming Higher Education's Civic Purpose

2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 (173) ◽  
pp. 69-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cynthia Kaufman
Keyword(s):  
Civic Work

Preparing College Students to Facilitate Action Civics Among K-12 Students

2021 ◽  
pp. 175-185
Author(s):  
Jason Fitzgerald ◽  
Alison K. Cohen ◽  
Barbara Ferman
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Training Programs ◽  
Social Knowledge ◽  
The Political ◽  
Multiple Perspectives ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
12Th Grade ◽  
Civic Work ◽  
Democratic Life ◽  
K 12

Recently, scholars have begun exploring the benefits and challenges of using college students to help develop Kindergarten-12th Grade (K-12) students' civic engagement capacities, specifically through action civics programs. However, much of the literature focuses on the political and social knowledge obtained by the K-12 students. By contrast, the authors explore the dispositions that college students need to effectively facilitate such learning with K-12 students, culled from grounded coding of four cases. They argue that action civics facilitator training programs should focus on action civics dispositions because dispositions underpin the knowledge and skills facilitators need to access to support complex civic work with K-12 students. Specifically, training programs should include dispositional work, valuing student-led projects, multiple perspectives, the development of relationships in contexts, and social justice. In this way, the values that drive Dewey's concept of democratic life can continue to underpin students' future civic work.

Keeping with: The Civic Work of Heritage Claims

2019 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 190-204
Author(s):  
Jonathan L. Bradshaw
Keyword(s):  
Civic Work

Tourism and recreation in the county of Kremenets as presented in “Życie Krzemienieckie” [Life of Kremenets] journal (1932-1939)

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 15-20
Author(s):  
Eligiusz Małolepszy ◽  
Teresa Drozdek-Małolepsza
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Comparative Method ◽  
Military Training ◽  
Rural Youth ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
Travel Agency ◽  
Recreational Activity ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
Tourism Activity ◽  
Civic Work

The aim of this paper is to present tourism and recreation in the county of Kremenets on the pages of “Życie Krzemienieckie” [Life of Kremenets] journal.”Życie Krzemienieckie” was issued in Kremenets in the years 1932-1939 and was published monthly. In some periods, “Życie Krzemienieckie” came out as a biweekly. It was a journal which was to provide information on social, cultural and economic life, as well as tourist and recreational activity, mostly of the Kremenets county community. As far as preparations for drawing up the study are concerned, the following procedures were used: analysis of historical sources, synthesis, induction, deduction and the comparative method. <br>The years 1932-1939 saw the development of tourism and recreation in the county of Kremenets. It was noticeable in the progression of infrastructure for tourism and recreation, e.g. in Kremenets, the Community and Tourism House was built. Some facilities were established for active tourism in the county of Kremenets. In addition to infrastructure, an important element in tourism activity was personnel training. Activity in the fi eld of tourism and recreation was pursued by social organisations including the following; Polish Sightseeing Association (branch in Kremenets), the County Committee for Physical Education and Military Training in Kremenets, the County Committee of Rural Youth in Kremenets, the Volhynian District Skiing Association, Union of Social Organisations and Association of Women’s Civic Work. In the fi eld of tourism, an important role was played by Kremenets Secondary School. In Kremenets, a department of the “Orbis” Travel Agency operated. In the county of Kremenets, mainly sightseeing, school as well asactive tourism was practised, and excursion traffi c in its broad sense was notable.

Strengths of postgraduate research in continuing professional development for professional educationalists

2011 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 138-141 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison Taysum
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Continuing Professional Development ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Research Curriculum ◽  
Moral Debate ◽  
Postgraduate Research ◽  
Civic Work ◽  
A Site ◽  
The University ◽  
Thinking Tools

The foundation upon which knowledge was provided in universities was a search for truth with four core beliefs. The first was to be critical of the self, the second to be respectful of others, the third to be tolerant of opposing views and the fourth to be committed to the generation of new knowledge. These principles may be found in curriculums of postgraduate research where leaders gain access to the thinking tools required for democratically engaging in civic work, working for social justice and raising standards in their educational communities. This may be achieved by critiquing different conceptualisations of truth while maintaining respect, tolerance and a commitment to the generation of new knowledge. Therefore leaders doing postgraduate research at a university engage with many conceptualisations of truth or discourses that are brought together in their postgraduate research curriculum. This positions the university as a connector of discourses and as such it is a site of public and moral debate that stands against the erosion of the public space where no political, cultural, cognitive or hegemonic discourse is protagonistic. This study examines these claims and reveals how postgraduate research has equipped two leaders to improve practice within their educational communities.

scholarly journals The Practice of Civic Tech: Tensions in the Adoption and Use of New Technologies in Community Based Organizations

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 57-68
Author(s):  
Eric Gordon ◽  
Rogelio Alejandro Lopez
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Daily Practice ◽  
The United States ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Small Organizations ◽  
Community Based Organizations ◽  
Civic Work

This article reports on a qualitative study of community based organizations’ (CBOs) adoption of information communication technologies (ICT). As ICTs in the civic sector, otherwise known as civic tech, get adopted with greater regularity in large and small organizations, there is need to understand how these technologies shape and challenge the nature of civic work. Based on a nine-month ethnographic study of one organization in Boston and additional interviews with fourteen other organizations throughout the United States, the study addresses a guiding research question: how do CBOs reconcile the changing (increasingly mediated) nature of civic work as ICTs, and their effective adoption and use for civic purposes, increasingly represent forward-thinking, progress, and innovation in the civic sector?—of civic tech as a measure of “keeping up with the times.” From a sense of top-down pressures to innovate in a fast-moving civic sector, to changing bottom-up media practices among community constituents, our findings identify four tensions in the daily practice of civic tech, including: 1) function vs. representation, 2) amplification vs. transformation, 3) grassroots vs. grasstops, and 4) youth vs. adults. These four tensions, derived from a grounded theory approach, provide a conceptual picture of a civic tech landscape that is much more complicated than a suite of tools to help organizations become more efficient. The article concludes with recommendations for practitioners and researchers.

Civic Work, Civic Lessons, by Ehrlich, T., & Fu, E.

2014 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 497-498
Author(s):  
Edward Potts
Keyword(s):  
Civic Work

scholarly journals Credit Cooperatives and the Socio-economic Development of the Community

2005 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-80
Author(s):  
Karen Luz Teves ◽  
◽  
Antonia Cecilia Sandoval ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Active Participation ◽  
Large Influence ◽  
Socio Economic Development ◽  
Credit Cooperatives ◽  
Civic Work

Credit cooperatives have greatly contributed to the socio-economic development of the community as shown by the different income-generating projects implemented by members. They also had large influence on the socio-economic face-lifting of the community through the active participation of members in civic work and in the implementation of livelihood projects catering to the needs of the whole community.

Embodying Sovereignty

2019 ◽  
pp. 51-80
Author(s):  
Katie Jarvis
Keyword(s):  
Municipal Government ◽  
National Assembly ◽  
Local Problems ◽  
Civic Work ◽  
Louis Xvi ◽  
Wet Nurse

From 1789 through 1793, the Dames reinvented their place in the nation through their activism, which they framed as civic work, and through their maternal initiatives, which they framed as gendered labor. The Dames reacted to local problems en masse and varied their response by situation. They bolstered their image as communal guardians by marching on Versailles during the October Days, by insisting that the municipal government assist citizens during food crises, and by sending a delegation to Italy to fetch the Comte d’Artois. As republican mothers, they reminded the National Assembly of its paternal responsibilities, spanked counterrevolutionary nuns who misled children, and sought to free imprisoned parents who defaulted on wet nurse payments. However, as Louis XVI proved an unwilling constitutional monarch, and bourgeoning clubs and assemblies grew into institutional venues for politics, the Dames’ sporadic interventions became less powerful.

A Cult of Beauty: The Public Life and Civic Work of Laura Lyon White

2005 ◽  
Vol 83 (2) ◽  
pp. 40-61
Author(s):  
Cameron Binkley
Keyword(s):  
Public Life ◽  
The Public ◽  
Civic Work
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