Innovative Approaches for Teaching Community Organization Skills in the Classroom

Donna Hardina

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2014
• eBook ISBN: 9781317826033
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

Bring your students the latest developments in community organization!Innovative Approaches for Teaching Community Organization Skills in the Classroom will help social work educators efficiently teach students methods of practice that they need to know in order to offer the best services to clients with a variety of different needs in a variety of settings. Here you'll find assignments and exercises that combine new technology with progressive ideas about integrating theory and practice. This valuable book consistently addresses topics that will stimulate discussion on the value assumptions inherent in community practice, appropriate ways to transmit these values in the classroom, and the best way to help students develop their own frameworks for ethical decisionmaking.Innovative Approaches for Teaching Community Organization Skills in the Classroom will be a valuable addition to your collection. This accessible and comprehensive book identifies and provides detailed information for teaching these skills in the classroom:

• ethical decisionmaking
• community assessment
• interpersonal skills development
• making your practice effective in a multi-cultural environment
• organizing your practice with computer technologyThis book describes teaching methods that will educate your students on the development of self-awareness, multicultural competency, and ethical content for practice, preparing them for the diverse situations that may arise in their professional careers.

Index

ACOSA member survey, 5-18

background and rationale of, 5-6

conclusions, 17-18

discussion, 14-16

methodology, 8

models of community practice and, 6-8

results, 9-14

Action projects, in cultural practice, 49-51

Administrative tasks, automatization of, 100

Advocacy Web pages, 99-100,103, 105-106

African Renaissance, 60

Alinsky, Saul, 20

Apartheid, 58

Authoritarian versus group-centered leadership training, 72-76

Boston College, 95-109

California State University (Fresno), 5-18

Campaign-related tactics, 7,14-15

Campaign strategy, 7,14-15

Capacity building, 6

Case examples

Ethics Work-up approach, 29-30, 34-38

in leadership training, 76-77

Chatrooms, 105

City University of New York Parent Leadership Program, 71-94. See also Leadership training

Class composition. See Demographics

Cognitive-field learning, 28

Collaborative decision-making, 6

Collaborative strategies, 7,12-13,15-16

Collaborative tactics, 7

Common good, 22-23

Communities

of color, 6

functional, 6

Community computer networks, 101

Community databases, 98-99

Community development, 6,7

indigenous approach to, 57-70

Community interventions, technology and, 97-100

Community organization. See also Community practice

ethical issues in, 19-38

grassroots leadership training in, 71-94

Community practice. See also individual subtopics

ethical issues in, 19-38

information technology and computer skills, 95-109. See also Technology

models and tactics for teaching, 5-18

models of practice for, 6-8

multicultural, 39-56

practice instructor survey, 5-18. See also ACOSA member survey

Computer literacy, 102

Confidentiality, versus truth-telling, 25

Conflict of duties, 19-38. See also Ethical ...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Introduction
• Models and Tactics Taught in Community Organization Courses: Findings from a Survey of Practice Instructors
• "Of Means and Ends" Revisited: Teaching Ethical Community Organizing in an Unethical Society
• Educating Students for Multicultural Community Practice
• Product and Process Dialectic: Developing an Indigenous Approach to Community Development Training
• Grassroots Leadership Training: A Case Study of an Effort to Integrate Theory and Method
• Organizing Cyberspace: Strategies for Teaching About Community Practice and Technology
• Index