Hopefulness for transformative grassroots change

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenny Pickerill
Keyword(s):  
Grassroots Change

Conclusion

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tricia Colleen Bruce
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Organizational Forms ◽  
American Catholicism ◽  
Institutional Control ◽  
Local Religion ◽  
Institutional Responses ◽  
The Future ◽  
Grassroots Change ◽  
The Catholic Church

The Conclusion summarizes how personal parishes—defined not by territory but by purpose—enable the Catholic Church to respond institutionally to grassroots change and diversity in American Catholicism. Having considered parishes, boundaries, decisions, difference, fragmentation, and community, the book concludes with a handful of lessons that personal parishes offer for understanding local religion and institutional responses to diversity. Namely, this chapter explores: (1) ascription and achievement in local religion; (2) generalism and specialism in organizing diversity; (3) the future of personal parishes; and (4) the place of purpose in a heterogeneous (Catholic) America. Viewing local religion from the top shows that multiple organizational forms can be deployed to meet divergent needs, to facilitate unity, and to maintain institutional control.

Women as Agents of Grassroots Change

2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 90-119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie Willman Bordat ◽  
Susan Schaefer Davis ◽  
Saida Kouzzi
Keyword(s):  
Grassroots Change

scholarly journals Coding and Professional Development -Part 2: A Case Study of Grassroots Change

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sam Popowich
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Grassroots Organizations ◽  
Grassroots Change

This article looks at concrete examples of grassroots organizations and initiatives that foster and support professional development in coding for library workers. Cet article présente des exemples concrets d’organismes et d’initiatives communautaires qui encouragent et appuient le développement professionnel en programmation des employés des bibliothèques.

Inciting Grassroots Change

2017 ◽  
pp. 914-928
Author(s):  
Shannon Chance
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Students ◽  
Institutional Support ◽  
Professional Organizations ◽  
Self Directed Learning ◽  
Education Policies ◽  
Higher Education Policies ◽  
Strategic Plans ◽  
Directed Learning ◽  
Grassroots Change ◽  
Positive Results

In higher education, policies and strategic plans often achieve fewer positive outcomes than their makers intend. Motivating teachers to innovate is remarkably difficult. Pleas issued by accreditation agencies and professional organizations, asking teachers to implement pedagogies that develop transferrable skills like collaboration and self-directed learning among engineering students, have gone largely unaddressed. To help leaders achieve change, this chapter analyzes one case that accrued positive results. It studies how change unfolded at a postsecondary institution in Ireland and discusses factors that enabled learning on the part of individuals, small groups, and their college. In this case, a grassroots effort by teachers was matched by institutional support that, although poorly understood by the teachers, built their capacity and set the stage for change.

Visual Memory, Personal Experience, and Public History

2019 ◽  
pp. 161-180
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Revolution ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Visual Memory ◽  
Public History ◽  
Master Narratives ◽  
Counter Narrative ◽  
History Of ◽  
Grassroots Change ◽  
Innovative Techniques ◽  
The Cultural Revolution

This article introduces an exemplary case of underground culture during the Cultural Revolution – the Wuming (No Name) painting group. The story of this case provides a counter-narrative against mainstream master narratives of the Cultural Revolution, contributing to an alternative history, a history of the creative actors and actions that were constitutive of grassroots change. The article further illustrates the challenges that memory and subjectivity pose for the writing of that history, and some innovative techniques the author has developed in response to them.

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