Community Action and Social Change: Theory and Practice

Presentation Reflection: Structural Violence and Power Imbalances

Document the Session: This week we discussed Structural Violence and Power Imbalances. The texts we focused on were Paul Farmer’s “On Suffering and Structural Violence” and James Baldwin’s “In Search of a Majority”. I…

Community Dialogue Reflection

Document the session: The topic I presented was on Cultural Humility and Accompaniment. The themes of Cultural Humility and Accompaniment were based on the readings on Cheryl Hyde’s Challenging Ourselves: Critical Self-Reflection on Power and Privilege. Paul Farmer’s On…

Post Session Report 4/4

My presentation was based on the readings of Paul Farmer’s “On Accompaniment”, Jill Stauffer’s interview on “Ethical Loneliness” and Cheryl Hyde’s “Challenging Ourselves: Critical Self-Reflection on Power and Privilege”. I focused on the interpersonal experience that service learning…

Presentation Reflection: Importance of Change

Document the session -This week we covered the topic of education for social change, reflecting on Conversations on Education and Social Change by Myles Horton and Paulo Freire in addition to Perspective-Taking as a Tool for building Democratic…

Post-Session Report

Document The concepts of identity, positionality, and vulnerability, using Beverly Tatum’s “The Complexity of Identity” and Abraham Verghese’s “Close Encounter of the Human Kind” as the framework, were the focus of my community dialogue session. In attendance were the students in Dominican…

The topic for discussion was: “Community Wisdom and Power Dynamics.” This was attended by most of our Service Learning class (may have been missing a couple) on April 6, 2017.

In order to frame this session, I began with a review of the readings based around the model of Asset Based Community Development (ABCD) as a strategy…

Ex. Credit CR: WOKE presenters and Education for Social Change

Critical Reflection #6: Community Wisdom and Power Dynamics

In “From clients to citizens” by Alison Mathie and Gord Cunningham, they explain the importance of a balance of power between community organizations and it’s citizens. ABCD is a different approach to supporting people in their…

Critical Reflection #3: On Accompaniment as Policy, The Ethics of Loneliness, Challenging Ourselves: Critical Self-Reflection on Power and Privilege

In Cheryl A. Hyde’s “Challenging Ourselves: Critical Self-Reflection on Power…