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Alongside Community: Learning in Service book cover

1st Edition

Alongside Community Learning in Service

Edited By Debra Harkins Copyright 2018
212 Pages 31 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

212 Pages 31 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

212 Pages 31 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Alongside Community is a step-by-step guide that prepares social science students to be democratic citizens by examining the theory, method, and sociopolitical dynamics that impact helping those different from oneself. The first part of this book explores the more theoretical issues of helping others, including issues of social identity, values, and power. The second part of this guidebook... Read more

Introduction

PART I LEARNING TO SERVE

1. Complexities of helping and serving

2. Roles of values, power and social identity in serving

PART II BUILDING YOUR HELPING SKILLS AND SOCIO POLITICAL AWARENESS

3. Researching for Social Change

4. Intervening to Promote Empowerment

5. Reflecting on helping

6. Building interpersonal skills

7. Becoming culturally sensitive

8. Supporting gender and sexual orientation identity　

9. Navigating educational systems

10. Practicing environmental Justice

PART III. ASSESSING YOUR CIVIC ENGAGEMENT

11. Did you make a difference?

12. Now what?

Acknowledgements

References

Index

Biography

Debra A. Harkins, PhD, is an associate professor in Psychology at Suffolk University. Debra teaches Community Psychology, Psychology of Self and Identity, and Voices in Conflict.

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