Community inquiry is inquiry conducted of, for, and by communities as living social organisms.
Community emphasizes support for collaborative activity and for creating knowledge, which is connected to people’s values, history, and lived experiences. Inquiry points to support for open-ended, democratic, participatory engagement. Community inquiry is thus a learning process that brings theory and action together in an experimental and critical manner.
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- Foundations of Community Engagement
- Antecedents
- Citizen participation (discuss=>create)
- Civic engagement (discuss)
- Community engagement (reflect=>ask)
- Non-US community engagement (investigate)
- Inquiry-based learning
- Civic Renewal Movements
- Age-friendly communities
- Citizen journalism (investigate)
- Community design (create)
- Community organizing (create)
- Community schools (create)
- Community technology, digital divide (create)
- Engaged campus (create)
- Food security (create)
- Healthy communities (create)
- Healthy environment (investigate=>create)
- Youth courts and community justice (create)
- Youth development (create)
- Tools for Understanding and Engaging Communities
- Art for understanding and engaging communities (create)
- Asset mapping (investigate)
- Community archives (investigate=>reflect)
- Community of practice (discuss)
- Community-based research (investigate)
- Community needs assessment (reflect=>ask)
- Deliberation (discuss)
- Inclusion, anti-racism (create=>discuss)
- Leadership (create)
- Libraries
- New media (discuss, create)
- Service learning (create=>reflect)
- Visioning (ask)
- Writing (reflect)
Foundations of Community Engagement
- Jane Addams
- Addams, Jane (2002). Democracy and social ethics. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press. [originally published in Jane Addams’ lifetime, 1860-1935].
- Addams, Jane (1912, c.1910). Twenty years at Hull House. New York: MacMillan.
- Jane Addams Hull-House Museum (Chicago)
- Hull House Tour – Lisa Lee talks about four Truths
- John Dewey in Turkey: Lessons for today
- Louise Michel, the Paris Commune, and Learning
- Opening the door to single-payer health care [Tommy Douglas in Saskatchewan].
- Polacheck, Hilda Satt (1991). I came a stranger: The story of a Hull-House girl. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press.
- Progressive education
- Shields, Patricia M. (1999). The Community of inquiry: Insights for public administration from Jane Addams, John Dewey and Charles S. Peirce. Faculty Publications-Political Science. Paper 3.
- Barber, Benjamin. “Politics as Epistemology,” in Strong Democracy: Participatory Politics for a New Age. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984.
- Chapter 9: Pragmatic Action, from Action Research, pp 135-150.
- Willingham, T. L. (2008). Libraries as Civic Agents. Public Library Quarterly, 27(2), 97-110.
- Parker, J., & Duignan, P. (2005) Dialogue Methods: A Typology of Community Dialogue Processes.. Good overview on what a community dialogue actually is. It also explains the various dialogue processes.
- Walton, D. (2007). Revitalizing the Public Sphere: The Current System of Discourse and the Need for the Participative Design of Social Action. Systemic Practice & Action Research, 20 (5), 369-386. This article is about how the “public sphere” has become unbalanced with the interests of the media, politicians, and lobbyists, and how a return of the citizen voice in public decision making is needed.
- http://wiki.deliberative-democracy.net/index.php/Summary_Report Summarizes what had been learned since the 2003 convention of the Deliberative Democracy Consortium.
- National Center for Outreach. Community engagement through public broadcasting. “Helping stations strengthen civic life and deepen their local significance.”
- University of California Berkeley School of Law. 2048 project: Humanity’s written agreement to live together. “2048 is a project within the Institute for Global Challenges and the Law at the University of California, Berkeley, Law School. A process for individuals, organizations and governments to draft an international framework for human rights that can be enforced in the courts of all countries.
- University of Kansas Community Tool Box. Leading A community dialogue on building a healthy community. Retrieved 10/20, 2008, fromhttp://ctb.ku.edu/tools//sub_section_main_1052.htm. Advice on how to conduct a community dialogue.
- 40N 88W (Champaign County Arts, Culture and Entertainment Council). (2006). “Big.small.all.champaign county” FALL WORKSHOP. Retrieved 10/24, 2008, fromhttp://www.40north.org/news/?m=200609. “big.small.all.champaign county started with a series of community dialogue meetings last November. These brought together 681 participants from a wide cross section of the population and from all parts of the County. 2,222 ideas were collected providing a strong foundation for development of a vision, community goals and an action plan..”
- American Psychological Association definition
- The following videos illustrate what civic engagement means in various communities:
- Civic Engagement. “At Collin County Community College, we define civic engagement as individual and collective actions designed to identify and address issues of public concern. Civic Engagement can take many forms, from individual volunteerism to organizational involvement to electoral participation. It can include efforts to directly address an issue, work with others in a community to solve a problem, or interact with the institutions of representative democracy.”
- UTB Center for Civic Engagement. Introduction to Service Learning at UT Brownsville.
- Kellogg Found – Anne Mosle Civic & Philanthropic Engagement
- The 2006 Civic and Political Health of the Nation: A Detailed Look at How Youth Participate in Politics and Communities. Details many components of civic engagement and how young people interact with them. This includes civic activities, electoral activities, political voice activities, disparities in engagement, loss of confidence in government, political knowledge, the importance of following the news for civic engagement, views of politics and elections, and other important findings. Shows where youth of today were in 2002 as compared to 2006 regarding their civic engagement knowledge as well as insight as to how initiatives of today have evolved.
- Civic engagement case studies
- Freire, Paulo (1970). The adult literacy process as cultural action for freedom. Harvard Educational Review, 40, 205-225.
- Milam, Danielle Patrick (2001). Access for all: Public library contributions to civic connectivity. National Civic Review, 90(3), 213-219.
- Oak Park Coalition for Truth and Justice (2009). Works alongside various organizations to promote awareness of global and local events, to explore humanitarian alternatives to war, and protect civil liberties.
- Standards that collectively create civic engagement. This includes collecting (6), using (8), and communicating (10) public knowledge. The final standard focuses on the culture, norms, reflexes, and habits of civic engagement.
- Allen, Danielle S. (2004). Talking to strangers: Anxieties of citizenship since Brown v. Board of Education. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
- Ball, Jessica (2005). Restorative research partnerships in Indigenous communities. In A. Farrell (Ed.).
- Bruce, Bertram C. (2007). From Hull-House to Paseo Boricua: The theory and practice of community inquiry. Paper presented at the conference, Philosophy of Pragmatism: Salient Inquiries, in ‘Section 3: Moral Theory, Law, Society,’ held at Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, September 26-29, 2007.
- Co-op Humboldt Park. (2006, April). Report on the findings and recommendations of the community survey in Humboldt Park: Preventing obesity and improving our health. Chicago: PRCC and others.
- Cuban, Sondra, & Hayes, Elisabeth (2001). Perspectives of five Library and Information Studies students involved in service-learning at a community-based literacy program. Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 42(2), 86-95.
- Curry, A. (2005). Action research in action: Involving students and professionals. In World Library and Information Congress: 71st IFLA General Conference and Council. Libraries – A voyage of discovery.
- Department of Sustainability and Environment, State of Victoria (2008). Effective engagement. On defining community engagement.
- Durrance, Joan C., Souden, M., Walker, D. & Fisher, K. E. (2006). Community problem-solving framed as a distributed information use environment: Bridging research and practice. Information Research, 11(4).
- Durrance, Joan (1984). Armed for action: Library response to citizen information needs. Neal Schuman.
- Educational Leadership‘s
July 2009 issue and the May 2009 issue have some excellent articles on social responsibility.
- Fisher, K. E., Durrance, J. C., & Hinton, M. B. (2004). Information grounds and the use of need-based services by immigrants in Queens, NY: A context-based, outcome evaluation approach. Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology, 55.8, 754-766.
- Glaude Jr., Eddie S. (2007). In a shade of blue: Pragmatism and the politics of Black America. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
- Hillsborough Organization for Progress and Equality:
- hooks, bell. (2003). Teaching community: A pedagogy of hope. New York: Routledge.
- hooks, bell (2004). Belonging: A culture of place. Taylor and Francis. “What does it mean to call a place home? How do we create community? When can we say that we truly belong?”
- The Jamestown Project, an action-oriented think tank whose mission is to make democracy real.
- Linden, R. M. (2002). Working across boundaries: Making collaboration work in government and nonprofit organizations. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
- McCook, Kathleen de la Pena (2000, Sept. 1). Reconnecting library education and the mission of the community. Library Journal, 125(14), 164-165.
- Milam, Danielle Patrick. (2001). Access for all: Public library contributions to civic connectivity. National Civic Review, 90(3), 213-220.
- Pateman, John. (2005). Values-driven library services in Vancouver. Focus on International Library and Information Work, 36(2), 71-75.
- Pettigrew, K. E., Durrance, J. C., & Unruh, K. T. (2002). Facilitating community information-seeking using the Internet: Findings from three public library-community network systems. Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology, 53.11, 894-903.
- Greenwood, Davydd J., & Levin, Morten. Chapters 1-4 and 6-8 (pp. 1-75 and 89-130). Introduction to action research: Social research for social change. 2d ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
- Odutola, Kole Ade (2003). Participatory use of video: A case study of community involvement in story construction, Global Media Journal, 2(2), Article No. 11 (13 pp)
- Reason, P., & Bradbury, H. (2006). Handbook of action research. Concise paperback ed. London: Sage.
- Scollon, Ron (1987, July 6). The Axe Handle Academy: A conversation with Ron Scollon.
- Sirianni, Carmen, & Friedland, Lewis A. (2005). The civic renewal movement. Dayton, Ohio: Kettering Foundation.
- Sloane, David, et al. (2003).Improving the nutritional resource environment for healthy living through community-based participatory research. Journal of General Internal Medicine 18(7), 568–575.
- Stoecker, Randy. (2005). Research methods for community change: A project-based approach. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
- Srinivasan, Ramesh (2006). Where information society and community voice intersect. The Information Society, 22(5).
- Talisse, Robert T. (2002). Two concepts of inquiry. Philosophical Writings, 20, 69-81.
- Tardieu. B. (1999). Computer as community memory: How people in very poor neighborhoods made a computer their own. In D.A. Schön, B. Sanyal, & W.J. Michell, (Eds.), High technology and low-income communities: Prospects for the positive use of advanced information technology (pp. 287-313). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
- Bender, Gerda. Exploring Conceptual Models for Community Engagement at Higher Education Institutions in South Africa [Journal Articles. Reports – Research] Perspectives in Education. v26 n1 p81-95 Mar 2008. A critical conceptual analysis of the South African Higher Education context reflects the lack of a structural and functional framework for the conceptualization of community engagement (CE) in higher education.
- Bednarz, Sarah Witham. Chalkley, Brian. Fletcher, Stephen. Hay, Iain. Le Heron, Erena. Mohan, Audrey. Trafford, Julie. Community Engagement for Student Learning in Geography [Journal Articles. Reports – Evaluative] Journal of Geography in Higher Education. v32 n1 p87-100 Jan 2008. Examines the role and purpose of community engagement as a learning and teaching strategy within higher education geography; six case studies drawn from Australia, New Zealand, the UK, and the USA.
- The Global Learning Portal facilitates development and education initiatives by linking online educators, international development practitioners, ministries and civil society organizations.
- TakingITGlobal enables a collaborative learning community which provides youth with access to global opportunities, cross-cultural connections and meaningful participation in decision-making.
- Timmons, Vianne; Kim Critchley; Barbara Ruth Campbell; Alexander McAuley; Jennifer P Taylor; Fiona Walton (2007, Summer). Knowledge translation case study: A rural community collaborates with researchers to investigate health issues. Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions, 27(3), pp. 183-187. Knowledge translation implies the exchange and synthesis of knowledge between researchers and research users, employing a high level of communication and participation, not only to share the knowledge found through research, but also to implement subsequent strategies.
Civic Renewal Movements
- Age-Friendly Communities Initiative.
- ALA’s Guidelines for serving Older Adults
- Kleiman, A. (1995). The aging agenda. (Cover story). Library Journal, 120(7), 32.
- Williamson, K., & Asla, T. (2009). Information behavior of people in the fourth age: Implications for the conceptualization of information literacy. Library & Information Science Research (07408188), 31(2), 76-83.
- Senior Odyssey
- Stine-Morrow, Elizabeth A L; Parisi, Jeanine M ; Morrow, Daniel G ; Park, Denise C. (2008). The effects of an engaged lifestyle on cognitive vitality: A field experiment, in psychology and aging, 23(4), 778–786.
- Xie & Bugg, (2009). Public library computer training for older adults to access high-quality Internet health information. Library & Information Science Research, 31, 155–162.
- definition on Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen_journalism
- Benson, Chris, & Christian, Scott (Eds.)(2002). Writing to make a difference: Classroom projects for community change. Teachers CP. Projects in which young people write for community change.
- Boyd, danah. 2007. “Information Access in a Networked World.” Talk presented to Pearson Publishing, Palo Alto, California, November 2.
- Dewey, John. The Public and Its Problems. (New York: Holt, 1927). “No man and no mind was ever emancipated merely by being left alone.” In this chapter, Dewey notes that all the public discourse and education in the world is irrelevant to community improvement without a means of mass dissemination. He also calls to task the purveyors of “news” for concentrating on the sensational and prurient, and calls them to a higher purpose: “the perfecting of the means and ways of communication of meanings so that genuinely shared interest in the consequences of interdependent activities may inform desire and effort and thereby direct action.”
- The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Funding research in journalism and media studies, the Knight Foundation specifically seeks “to enable all residents to participate in their communities and to assume the full rights and responsibilities of citizens in a democracy.”
- Matheson, Donald. “Weblogs and the Epistemology of the News: Some Trends in Online Journalism.” New Media Society 2004; 6; 443. Journalism has been slow to develop distinctive forms in response to the new contexts provided by the internet. One rapidly developing form, unique to the world wide web, is the blog. This article reviews the claims made by proponents of the form and explores, through the case study of a blog produced by the British Guardian newspaper, epistemological differences to the dominant Anglo-American news form. It argues that the rearticulation in this institutional product of the relation between journalists and users, of the claim to authority made in the news text and of the news text as product, provides historians of both journalism and new media with a case study of the adaptation of journalism to new contexts.
- Rheingold, Howard (2008). Using participatory media and public voice to encourage civic engagement. In W. Lance Bennett (Ed.), Civic life online: Learning how digital media can engage youth. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. 97–118. doi: 10.1162/dmal.9780262524827.097 Teaching young people how to use digital media to convey their public voices could connect youthful interest in identity exploration and social interaction with direct experiences of civic engagement. Learning to use blogs (“web logs,” web pages that are regularly updated with links and opinion), wikis (web pages that non-programmers can edit easily), podcasts (digital radio productions distributed through the Internet), and digital video as media of self-expression, with an emphasis on “public voice,” should be considered a pillar—not just a component—of twenty-first-century civic curriculum.
- Michael Sculty, Professor at Roger Williams University discusses Civic Journalism as it’s been affected by the web, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPRJ0BcqIcQ
- Seiter, Ellen. “Practicing at Home: Computers, Pianos, and Cultural Capital.” Digital Youth, Innovation, and the Unexpected. Edited by Tara McPherson. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2008. 27–52. This essay reviews the connections and divergences between old and new media in terms of the acquisition of cultural capital. In investigating media literacy, it will consider the developmental abilities, the kinds of scaffolding, and the economic and technological thresholds for domestic usage that are required to reap the greatest benefits from new media.
- CPN: The Wichita Eagle . Fed up with coverage of the 1988 presidential campaign, Wichita Eagle editor Davis Merritt challenged his newsroom and the community to find a better way to report pre-election information. Forsaking soundbites and mud-slinging, the Eagle held community forums (dubbed “The People Project”) to determine the issues that mattered most to readers, then focused ongoing pre-election coverage of the 1990 gubernatorial race on those issues.
- The Journal Star Leadership Challenge: Building a New Generation of Leaders. Peoria, Illinois: A town so ordinary it’s used as shorthand for average middle America. But in the mid 1990s Peoria found itself in the midst of high crime and low civic participation–without Boy Scout leaders, neighborhood watch captains, or even prospective candidates for Congressional seats. The Peoria Journal-Star launched The Leadership Challenge to engage the community in identifying communal problems, and solutions.
- Pew Center for Civic Journalism
- Rosen, Jay (1999). What are journalists for? New Haven: Yale.
- Rosen, Jay (1996). Getting the connections right: Public journalism and the troubles in the press. New York: Twentieth Century.
- Rosen, Jay (1993). Community connectedness passwords for public journalism. New York: The Poynter Institute for Media Studies. Key issues that the journalism community must debate.
- Beatly, Timothy, and David J. Brower. 1994. “Representation in comprehensive planning: An analysis of the Austinplan process.” Journal of the American Planning Association 60, no. 2: 185. Academic Search Premier, EBSCOhost (accessed November 13, 2008). Analyzes the representativeness of the Austinplan process implemented in Austin, Texas involving citizen participation in city planning. Importance of representation; Policy differences between participants and the general public; Austin residents as naive populists.
- Day, Diane, 1997. “Citizen Participation in the Planning Process: An Essentially Contested Concept?” Journal of Planning Literature 51, no. 11: 421-434. Sage Journals Online (accessed November 12, 2008). This article contains a brief survey of the history of civic engagement in the United States and some of the theories about civic participation in public affairs. One of the goals of the article is to examine the citizen participation poses for the planning process
- O’Connell, Kim A. 2006. “Building diversity.” American City & County 121, no. 13: 44-47. Academic Search Premier, EBSCOhost(accessed November 13, 2008). The article focuses on the efforts of U.S. local government and private organizations to include affordable housing into their city revitalization projects. According to a report by Smart Growth Network and the National Neighborhood Coalition, redevelopments often unintentionally force lower-income residents to move away to find affordable housing. Thus, city leaders are factoring in affordable housing of which its benefits have been proven. Home ownership have been an ultimate goal of many municipal housing efforts.
- Greco, JoAnn. 2008. “Old Tool New Uses.” Planning 74, no. 6: 38-43. Academic Search Premier, EBSCOhost (accessed November 13, 2008). The article reports on the growth of cities establishing comprehensive plans for community development in the U.S. It states that the plan focuses on carrying out redevelopment in urban areas and the construction of infrastructure that will address the needs and demands of local residents. These include Planning Raleigh 2030 in North Carolina, housing development in New Orleans, and reform in commercial business in Washington, D.C. It reveals that comprehensive plans play essential role in identifying the issues facing communities and develop solutions that will help promote the growth of towns and cities across the country.
- Lipow, Hershell. 2005. “Living Cities: Using Focused Investment to Develop and Revitalize Communities.” Journal of Housing & Community Development 62, no. 3: 24-29. Academic Search Premier, EBSCOhost (accessed November 14, 2008). Discusses the emergence of the comprehensive community initiatives, a potential model that created and empowered sustainable communities in the U.S. Efficiency of the system in promoting urban revitalization; Role in uniting financial institutions, foundations and government with committed stakeholders on for urban investments; Citation of organizations with successful comprehensive community initiatives.
- Community Design Collaborative.
- Innes, Judith E., and David E. Booher. 2004. “Reframing Public Participation: Strategies for the 21st Century.” Planning Theory & Practice 5, no. 4: 419-436.Academic Search Premier, EBSCOhost (accessed November 13, 2008). Makes the case that legally required participation methods in the US not only do not meet most basic goals for public participation, but they are also counterproductive, causing anger and mistrust. Both theory and practice are dominated by ambivalence about the idea of participation itself. Both struggle with dilemmas that make the problems seem insoluble, such as the conflict between the individual and collective interest or between the ideal of democracy and the reality that many voices are never heard. Cases are used to draw on an emerging set of practices of collaborative public engagement from around the world to demonstrate how alternative methods can better meet public participation goals and how they make moot most of the dilemmas of more conventional practice.
- Toker, Zeynep. 2007. “Recent trends in community design: the eminence of participation.” Design Studies 28, no. 3: 309-323.Academic Search Premier, EBSCOhost (accessed November 13, 2008). This paper reports a recent study asking current community design practitioners to identify the most influential people and key issue leaders in the community design field and to define the concept itself. The results of the study show that in addition to the continuing concepts such as participation, there are new concepts such as new urbanism and sustainability which are now associated with community design. The most important conclusion, however, is that community design field is in fact in search of new perspectives.
- Manzo, Lynne C., and Douglas D. Perkins. 2006. “Finding Common Ground: The Importance of Place Attachment to Community Participation and Planning.”Journal of Planning Literature 20, no. 4: 335-350. Academic Search Premier, EBSCOhost (accessed November 13, 2008). Draws connections between the environmental and community psychology literature on place attachment and meaning with the theory, research, and practice of community participation and planning.
- Vidal, Avis C., and W. Dennis Keating. 2004. “Community Development: Current Issues and Emerging Challenges.” Journal of Urban Affairs 26, no. 2: 125-137.Academic Search Premier, EBSCOhost (accessed November 12, 2008). The emerging issues in the community development movement with an emphasis on the work of community development corporations in the U.S. Factors affecting the sector’s ability to continue their tasks; Contributions of leadership and seasoned practitioners in community development projects; Implications of the future of community development corporations.
- Alinsky, S. (1971) Rules for radicals. New York, NY: Vintage Books. (chapter 1). Saul Alinsky is one of the first and most famous community organizers. He worked as an organizer in Chicago’s Back of the Yards neighborhood.
- Alinsky, S. (1989). Revielle for radicals. New York, NY: Vintage Books. Written before Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals. It is a sort of ‘call’ to community organizing, defining who the Radicals are and what they do.
- Chaskin, R., et. al. (ed.). Building community capacity. New York, NY: Aldine de Gruyter. Chapter 4 offers various strategies for community organizing.
- The Citizen’s Handbook: A Guide to Building Community. Charles Dobson, Vancouver Citizen’s Committee. Gives a great overview of Community Organizing. It contains both tools and suggestions for organizing within a community.
- Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative. Great example of community organizing. This community organization was granted eminent domain in their neighborhood and used that to improve the neighborhood.
- Ecklein, J. (ed.) (1984). Community organizers, (2nd ed.). New York, NY: John Wiley &Sons. (Introduction) Gives a great overview of community organizing in the introduction. The rest of the book contains case studies.
- Noden, Kirk. (2002-03). Building Power in Forty Languages: A Story About Organizing Immigrants in Chicago’s Albany Park. Social Policy, 33(2), 47-52. About community organizing in Chicago; a good example of how to do community organizing in a neighborhood that is very diverse.
- Dewey, John (1902, October). The school as social center. The Elementary School Teacher, 3(2), 73-86.
- Ritzo, Chris; Nam, Chaebong; & Bruce, Bertram C. (in press). Building a strong web: Connecting information spaces across communities. Special issue of Library Trends on school media and Information science.
Community technology, digital divide
- Alkalimat, Abdul. Lecture series from course on the digital divide.Example: Wu, Maryalice; Nicholson-Owens, Dawn; & Noble, Safiya Umoja (2009. September 24). The search for broadband data.
- Choksi, B. (1997). Evaluating the use of information technology in the East St. Louis Action Research Project (ESLARP).
- City of Chicago (2007). The city that NetWorks.
- Hayden, Craig, & Ball-Rokeach, Sandra J. (2007). Maintaining the digital hub: locating the community technology center in a communication infrastructure. New Media & Society, 9(2), 235-57. Sage Publications.
- Hick, Steven (2006). Technology, social inclusion and poverty: An exploratory investigation of a community technology center. Journal of Technology in Human Services, 24(1), 53-67. Haworth Press.
- New Communities Program (2006).
- Rhodes, Lodis, et al. (2002, May 15). An ideal CTC: Strategies for community development from Austin community technology centers. Evaluating Community Technology Centers, LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin.
- Salovey, Peter; Williams-Piehota, Pamela; Mowad, Linda; Moret, Marta E.; Edlund, Denielle; & Andersen, Judith (2009, April 1). Bridging the digital divide by increasing computer. Journal of Health Communication, 14(3), 228-45.
- Warschauer, Mark. (2003). Technology and social inclusion: Rethinking the digital divide. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
- WEFT Champaign 90.1 FM. Retrieved 10/24, 2008, from http://weft.org/ local radio station and venue for community dialogues.
- Benson, Lee, Harkavy, Ira, & Puckett, John. (2007). Dewey’s dream: Universities and democracies in an age of education reform. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press.
- Carnegie Community Engagement Classification. The Carnegie Foundation recently added an entire Community Engagement classification to its Classifications of Institutions of Higher Education. Community Engagement is now assessed at the same level of certification as broad classifications such as “Undergraduate Instructional Program.”
- Campus Compact. One of the most expansive and successful organizations of Universities with a commitment to civic engagement. This site contains a wealth of resources including an entire section devoted to sample syllabi that incorporate service learning. You can find an example of a Collection Development course that incorporates service learning here.
- Driscoll, Amy. “Carnegie’s Community-Engagement Classification: Intentions and Insights” [Journal Articles. Reports – Descriptive] Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning. v40 n1 p38-41 Jan-Feb 2008. These two articles discuss the creation of the Carnegie’s engaged campus classification, it’s implications, purpose, and methods of attainment.
- Kaiser, Scott (2005, Summer). Community technology centers and bridging the digital divide. Knowledge, Technology & Policy, 18(2), 83-100.
- Kellogg Commission on the Future of Land Grant Institutions. “Returning to Our Roots: The Engaged Institution.” 1999. Great introduction into the breadth of programs and activities encompassed by the concept of the engaged campus.
- Universities: These are links to universities who have demonstrated a strong commitment to civic engagement, both in their curriculum and in their co-operation with various communities:
- Yontz, Elaine; McCook, Kathleen de la Pena. Service-Learning and LIS Education. Journal of Education for Library and Information Science v. 44 no. 1 (Winter 2003) p. 58-68. Provides numerous examples of the way service learning can be incorporated into LIS education.
- Zuiches, James J. (2008, Jan-Feb). Attaining Carnegie’s community-engagement classification. Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 40(1), 42-45.
- Detroit Black Community Food Security Network (DBCFSN).
- Feenstra, G. (2002). Creating space for sustainable food systems: Lessons from the field. Agriculture and Human Values, 19(2), 99–106.
- FoodShare Learning Centre and Library. A resource center with a broad range of food-security-related learning materials and links. “FoodShare promotes policies such as adequate social assistance rates, sustainable agriculture, universal funding of community-based programs and nutrition education that will make food a priority at all levels of society.”
- Lister, N-M. 2007. Placing food: Toronto’s edible landscape. In J. Knechtel (ed.) Food. Boston: MIT Press. pp.148–185.
- McCullum, C., et al. (2004). Mechanisms of Power Within a Community-Based Food Security Planning Process. Health Education & Behavior, 31, 206–222.
- Ogoye-Ndegwa, C., Abudho, D., & Aagaard-Hansen, J. (2002). New Learning in Old Organisations: Children’s Participation in a School-Based Nutrition Project in Western Kenya. Development in Practice, 12 (3/4), 449–460.
- Rabinowicz, J. (2002). Urban food security and the potential for urban agriculture. Working paper. Santropol Roulant.
- Rooftop Garden Project video.
- Ryerson University, Centre for Studies in Food Security. Various resources related to food security issues.
- Clements-Nolle, Kristen; & Bachrach (2003). Community based participatory research with a hidden population: The Transgender Community Health Project. In Minkler, M. & Wallerstein, N. (eds.), Community based participatory research for health, (pp. 332-342). San Francsico, CA: Jossey-Bass. Case study of a community of transgender people who were not satisfied with the instruments that were being used to measure the health of their community.
- Faust, Linda A.; Blanchard, Lynn W.; Breyfogle, Dale A.; Baroni, Jill K.; Reed, Rajika E.; &Young, Mark J. (2005, Winter). Discussion suppers as a means for community engagement. Journal of Rural Health, 21(1), 92-95. How a large tertiary care urban hospital used discussion suppers as a means for community engagement designed to lead tocommunity health improvement.
- Gubrium, Aline (2009) Digital storytelling: An emergent method for health promotion research and practice. Health Promotion Practice, 10(2), 186-191.
- Lee, Peter R.; Fuccillo, Ralph; & Wolff, Thomas J. (2000, Mar.-Jun.). Key components of a statewide healthy communities effort. Public Health Reports (1974-), 115(2/3), 134-138.
- Mcintyre, Alice (2003) Through the eyes of women: photovoice and participatory research as tools for reimagining place. Gender, Place and Culture, 10(1), 47-66.
- Narsavage, Georgia L.; Batchelor, Holly; Lindell, Deborah; & Chen, Yea-Jyh (2003, Nov.-Dec.). Developing personal and community learning in graduate nursing education through community engagement. Nursing Education Perspectives, 24(6), 300-05.
- Saskatchewan health care. Provnicial government account of why and how Saskatchewan established universal health care. See also my Opening the door to single-payer health care.
- Wang, Caroline C. (1999) Photovoice: A participatory action research strategy applied to women’s health. Journal of Women’s Health, 8(2).
- 350.org. A series of studies has shown that the planet faces both human and natural disaster if atmospheric concentrations of CO2 remain above 350 parts per million.
- Agyeman, Julian, & Angus, Briony (2003). The role of civic environmentalism in the pursuit of sustainable communities. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 46(3), 345-363.
- City of Batavia, Illinois Resolution 09-49-R.
- Dewitt, John (1994, Summer). Civic environmentalism. Issues in Science & Technology, 10(4), 30-34.
- EarthWatch Radio Programs.
- Envirolink Network, The. Online resource for environmental groups/movements.
- Environmental Justice Group Based out of Roxbury, MA. Alternatives for community and environment. Good source for a group working to provide local environmental resources for the community they live in.
- Gallagher, Deborah R., & Jackson, Sarah E. (Sept. 2008). Promoting community involvement at brownfields sites in socio-economically disadvantaged neighborhoods. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management. Good case study; on the role of a community in environmental standards/laws/planning.
- Go Green Initiative. Source/program outline for school environmental movements.Communities for a Better Environment. Environmental Health and Justice Site. Focuses mostly on California. Also discusses term, “Environmental Racism.”
- Layzer, Judith A. (2002). Citizen participation and government choice in local environmental
controversies. Policy Studies Journal, 30(2), 193-207. - Majora Carter’s Tale of Urban Renewal.
- Leonard, Annie. The story of stuff with Annie Leonard.
- Reynolds, Richard (2008). On guerrilla gardening. New York: Bloomsbury. Case study of global and local environmental group; brings up issues of working from outside the law using online networking.
- Roseland, Mark, 1998; “Toward Sustainable Communities: Resources for Citizens and
Their Governments”; (Gabriola Island, BC, New Society Publishers). - Small, Sarah (2008, August 22). Ameren releases toxic soil findings from Champaign. Daily Illini. Environmental issues in Champaign.
- Unnatural Causes (2008). Companion web site to a documentary on inequality and community health; provides tools for communities to take action, policy information and ideas for educating teens on health issues in their communities.
- Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center. A toxic legacy: Douglass Park residents in their own words.
- Wolff, T. (2003). The healthy communities movement: A time for transformation. National Civic Review, 92(2). History of the healthy communities movement.
- Young Environmentalist Awards/competition in Ireland. Young people engaging in environmental action.
Youth courts and community justice
- Illinois Youth Court Association.
- National Association of Youth Courts.
- National Youth Court Center. (2001). The role of restorative justice in teen courts: A preliminary look. Lexington, KY: Tracy M. Godwin.
- Nessel, Paula A. (1999). Teen courts and law-related education. ERIC Digest, 429031, 1-5.
- Williamson, Deborah & Knepper, Paul. (1995). Teen courts and violence prevention: Why teen courts are a successful tool in deterring youthful violence and crime. Update on Law-Related Education, 19.2, 33-35.
- After School Matters (2009).
- Agosto, D. E. (2001, Spring). Bridging the culture gap: ten steps toward a more multicultural youth library. Journal of Youth Services in Libraries, 14(3), pp. 38-41. Considers how awareness of the social value of multicultural materials could make youth librarians realize the need for the inclusion of such materials in public and school library collections. Linguistic diversity can bridge the cultural gap that minority students face when learning to read and write. Itemizes steps enabling changes in library culture to meet these needs, including the library’s physical environment, collection diversity, model bilingual and multicultural materials, fostering dialogue and community engagement.
- Bruce, B. C. (Ed.) (2003). Literacy in the information age: Inquiries into meaning making with new technologies. Newark, DE: International Reading Association.
- Burn, Debra (2007, September). VerbYL: Yeppoon’s Unique Youth Lounge / Youth Library. Australasian Public Libraries and Information Services, 20(3), pp. 99-102. VerbYL is a standalone shopfront youth space incorporating a library service and general youth services for young people aged 13-25, located in the main street of Yeppoon, Central Queensland. Critical success factors include the equal partnership between council’s youth services and library services; the development of a distinctive brand for the service; and the engagement of young people in the design and ongoing operation of the service.
- Carver, R.L. & Enfield, R. (2006). John Dewey’s Philosophy of Education is Alive and Well. Education & Culture 22(1), 55-67.
- Catalano, Richard F. et al (2004). Positive youth development in the United States: Research findings on evaluations of positive youth development programs. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 591(1), 98-124.
- Chicago Public Schools Office of Research, Evaluation and Accountability (2008). All schools report.
- Connell, J. P., Gambone, M. A., & Smith T. J. (2001). Youth development in community settings: Challenges to our field and our approach. In P. J. Benson, & K. J. Pittman (Eds.), Trends in youth development. Boston, MA: Kluwer Academic.
- Dewey, John (1938). Experience and education. New York: Macmillan.
- Diehn, Gwen (1999/2006). Making books that fly, fold, wrap, hide, pop up, twist & turn: Books for kids to make.
- Diehn, Gwen (2006). The decorated journal: Creating beautifully expressive journal pages.
- Enfield, R. P. (2001). Connection between 4-H and John Dewey’s Philosophy of Education. Focus University of California, Davis.
- Fletcher, Adam (2008, November). The architecture of ownership. Educational Leadership, 66(3).
- Flores-Gonzalez, N., Rodriguez, M., & Rodriguez-Muniz, M. (2006). From hip-hop to humanization: Batey Urbano as a space for Latino youth culture and community action. In S. Ginwright, P. Noguera, & J. Cammorota (eds.), Beyond resistance! Youth activism and community change (pp. 175-196). New York: Routledge.
- Freire, P. (2005). Pedagogy of the Oppressed. 30th anniversary edition, with introduction by Donaldo Macedo. New York: Continuum.
- Gewertz, C. (2008). Chicago students to play lead role in dropout project. Education Week, 28(13), 4-4.
- Halpern, R. (2006). After-School Matters in Chicago: Apprenticeship as a model for youth programming. Youth & Society, 38(2), 203-235.
- Haythornthwaite, C. & Kazmer, M. M. (Eds.) (2004). Learning, culture and community in online education: Research and practice. NY: Peter Lang.
- Illinois Council of Students (2009, September 12).
- Irish, Sharon (2009). Turning point ; Teens and violence.
- Jonassen, D. (1999). Computers as mindtools for schools: Engaging critical thinking. Prentice Hall. Mindtool Website.
- Joseph, Barry. Why Johnny can’t fly: Treating games as a form of youth media within a youth development framework.
- Kaptizke, C. & Bruce, B. C. (2006). Libr@ries: Changing information space and practice. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
- Joining Forces: Engaging with Community To Improve Rural Student Achievement. Community Engagement Guide. Educational reform poses problems for administrators in rural areas who have limited time and resources. This guide offers a process that can be used by rural administrators to engage the community in activities that will enhance children’s success in the classroom and in their adult lives.
- The Mash (2009, September 12).
- Moll, L. C., Amanti, C., Neff, D., & Gonzalez, N. (1992). Funds of knowledge for teaching: Using a qualitative approach to connect homes and classrooms. Theory into Practice, 31(2), 132-141.
- Moses, Robert (2001). Radical equations: Civil rights from Mississippi to the Algebra Project. Boston, Massachusetts: Beacon.
- National Service-Learning Clearinghouse (NSLC), Learn and Serve America–an organization that supports the service-learning community; explanation of service learning; studies on the impact of service learning.
- Ogletree, R., Bell, T., & Smith, N. (2002). Positive youth development initiatives in Chicago. New Directions for Youth Development, 94, 41-63.
- Prins, Esther. Individual Roles and Approaches to Public Engagement in a Community-University Partnership in a Rural California Town [Journal Articles. Reports – Research Journal of Research in Rural Education. v21 n7 p1-15 Jul 2006. Examines the roles that a professor, graduate student, consultant, and communityeducation specialist at a public university in California have played in a partnership with an elementary school and a community-based organization in a nearby rural town.
- Schutz, A. (2006, Winter). Home is a prison in the global city: The tragic failure of school-based community engagement strategies. Review of Educational Research, 76(4), 691-743.
- Street Level Youth Media (2009). Offers educational opportunities in emerging technologies and media arts for underserved youth; promotes learning through exploration and individual inquiry.
- Student achievement in math and science: Putting community members into the equation. The ARSI community engagement implementation manual. [Guides – Non-Classroom], The Appalachian Rural Systemic Initiative (ARSI) aims to stimulate sustainable systemic improvements that enhance student performance in mathematics, science, and technology in 66 Appalachian counties characterized by persistent poverty.
- Voices of Youth in Chicago Education (VOYCE) (2008).
- Wiggins, G. & Mctighe, J. (2005). Understanding by design (2nd ed.). Columbus, OH: Merrill/Prentice Hall.
- Woodson, Stephani Etheridge. Good work: Ethics and community cultural development with children and youth. Community Arts Perspectives, Community Arts Network.
- Youth Community Informatics. A Library and Information Science and Institute of Museum and Library Services initiative at the University of Illinois. YCI is a collective of graduate students, professors, and youth leaders, that seeks to actively engage youth in their communities to take on the issues that affect them the most. Across Illinois, YCI is creating partnerships in communities through school districts, community organizations and local leaders in an effort to produce solutions through the use of technology-rich activities to the issues they face.
- Youth urban planning in Richmond, CA.
Tools for Understanding and Engaging Communities
Art for understanding and engaging communities
- Addams, Jane (1895, July). The art-work done by Hull-House, Chicago. The Forum, 19, 614-617.
- Burnham, L., Durland, S., & Gard Ewell, M. (2004). The state of the field of community cultural development: Something new emerges. A report from the CAN gathering. Saxapahaw, NC: Art in the Public Interest.
- Cherbo, J., Stewart, R., & Wyszomirski. M. (Eds.) (2008). Understanding the arts and creative sector in the United States. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
- Cleveland, W. (2005). Making exact change: How U.S. arts-based programs have made a significant and sustained impact on their communities. A Report from the Community Arts Network. Saxapahaw, NC: Art in the Public Interest.
- Grams, D., & Farrell, B. (Eds.) Entering cultural communities: Diversity and change in the nonprofit arts. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
- Leonard, R., Kilkelly, A., & Burnham, L. (2006). Performing communities: Grassroots ensemble theaters deeply rooted in eight U.S. communities. Oakland, CA: New Village.
- National Association for the Education of Young Children (1997). Can you see what I see? Cultivating self-expression through art.
- An Asset-Based Approach to Community Building and Community Technology
- Beaulieu, L. J. (2002, Jun. Day ). Mapping the assets of your community: A key component for building local capacity.
- Benkler, Y. and Nissenbaum (2006): Commons-based Peer Production and Virtue. The Journal of Political Philosophy: Volume 14, Number 4, pp. 394-419.
- Budhathoki, Nama R. (Fall 07). GIS Course.
- Budhathoki, Nama R., Bruce, Bertram C., Nedovic-Budic, Z. (2008): Reconceptualizing the role of the user of spatial data infrastructure. Special Issue on Volunteered Geographic Information, GeoJournal. Vol (72), Number 3-4. pp. 149-160.
- Cisler, Steve (2007). Open geography: New tools and new initiatives.
- The Community Toolbox: Identifying Community Assets and Resources
- Elwood, Sarah (2007 July). Grassroots groups as stakeholders in spatial data infrastructures: challenges and opportunities for local data development and sharing. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 1 – 20. Investigates grassroots users’ geospatial information needs and activities in Chicago. Based on several years of ethnographic study, it reveals why supplier-driven information fails to meet information needs of grassroots community
- Fahy, F., & Cinneide, M. (2009). Re-constructing the urban landscape through community mapping: An attractive prospect for sustainability. Area, 41 (2), pp. 167-175.
- González, N., Moll, Luis, & Amanti, C. (2005). Funds of knowledge: Theorizing practices in households, communities, and classrooms. New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
- Goodchild, Michael F. (2007). Citizens as the voluntary sensors: Spatial data infrastrcuture in the world of Web 2.0 . International Journal of Spatial Data Infrastructures Research, 2, 24-32.
- Konieczny, Piotr (2007). Wikis and Wikipedia as a Teaching Tool. International Journal of Instructional Technology and Distance Learning. Vol 4, Number 1.
- McKnight, J. L., & Kretzmann, J. (1992). Mapping community capacity. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University: Center for Urban Affairs and Policy Research.
- Moll, L., Amanti, C., Neff, D., & Gonzalez, N. (2001). Funds of knowledge for teaching: Using a qualitative approach to connect homes and classrooms. Theory Into Practice, 31(2), 132-141.
- Moore, M. (1994). Community capacity assessment: A guide for developing an inventory of community-level assets and resources. Santa Fe, NM: New Mexico Children, Youth and Families Department.
- Reardon, Kenneth M. (1998). Enhancing the Capacity of Community-Based Organizations in East St. Louis. Journal of Planning Education and Research, 17, pp. 323-333.
- Ridgley and Dillon (1921). Home Geography: A First Year in Geography. McKNIGHT & McKNIGHT, Normal, Illinois.
- Robinson, Jacquelyn P. (2003, September). Asset mapping: A tool for building capacity in communities. Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences 95(3), 52-53.
- Sletto, Bjørn Ingmunn (2009). “We drew what we imagined” Participatory mapping, performance, and the arts of landscape making. Current Anthropology, 50(4), 443-476.
- Sustainable Jersey (2009, Mar. 6 ). Sustainable Jersey.
- Tulloch, David L. (2007, December). Many, many maps: Empowerment and online participatory mapping. Firstmonday.
- US Dept. of Health and Human Services
- Illuminate Regional Asset Mapping Roadmap
- Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA) (2006, January). Teaching by doing: PPGIS and classroom-based service learning. Author.
- Example maps:
- Example forms:
- Douglass Area Community Organization. Individual capacity inventory.
- Worksheet
- Anyon, Yolanda, John W. Gardner, and María A. Fernández. 2007. Realizing the Potential of Community-University Partnerships. Change, 39(6), 40-45. Academic Search Premier, EBSCOhost (accessed November 7, 2008). Discusses the potential of community and university partnership to bring growth and development both in the community and its residents.
- Ball, Mary Alice and Schilling, Katherine. Service Learning, Technology and LIS Education. Source: Journal of Education for Library and Information Science v. 47 no4 (Fall 2006) p. 277-90. Examines the possibilities inherent in utilizing LIS technology for the purposes of service-learning and community engagement.
- Bracken, Susan J. 2007. “The importance of language, context, and communication as components of successful partnership.” New Directions for Community Colleges 2007, no. 139: 41-47. Academic Search Premier, EBSCOhost (accessed November 7, 2008). Successful community-university partnerships are usually attributed, at least in part, to clear communication processes. This chapter reflects on language and context as elements in developing a strong partnership process.
- Butin, Dan W. “Focusing Our Aim: Strengthening Faculty Commitment to Community Engagement” [Journal Articles. Reports – Descriptive] Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning. v39 n6 p34-37 Nov-Dec 2007. Addresses the idea that faculty achievement must be one of the central incentives in an engaged academic environment in order for the movement to expand.
- Eales, Kathy (1998). Community archives: Introduction. S. A. Archives Journal, 40, 11. Background on the workshop on community archives convened by the Gay and Lesbian Archives of South Africa (GALA) and the South African History Archives in 1998 forming part of the project dubbed `Refiguring the Archives.’ Background on GALA; Workshop goals; Guest speakers; Themes of the presentations; Attendees; Difference of the community from the traditional archive.
- Densho Project. A website and archive chronicling the plight of Japanese-Americans in concentration camps during World War II.
- Manilatown Heritage Foundation. Website dedicated to Filipinos in America. The physical site is based in San Francisco.
- Champaign County Archives. Website for Champaign County, Illinois. It houses personal records created by the people of Champaign as well as official records by Champaign County government.
- American Association of State Colleges and Universities, Alliance for Regional Stewardship, National Center for Higher Education Management Systems. (2006) “Tools and Insights for Universities called to Regional Stewardship.” Presents engaged campus in the big-picture. This article is similar to the “Returning to Our Roots” article, but a bit more current.
- Flinn, Andrew (2007). “Community histories, community archives: Some opportunities and challenges.” Journal of the Society of Archivists 28(2), 151-176. Examines the community archive movement, exploring its roots, its variety and present developments; identifies the possible impact on the national archival heritage, particularly on the many gaps and absences in that contemporary heritage, of community archive materials and examine some of the opportunities and challenges that these initiatives present to the mainstream profession.
- Lekhutile, Scobie (1998). Community participation. S. A. Archives Journal, 40(16). Highlights the role that communities play in the changing society of South Africa discussed in the series of workshops forming part of the national project `Refiguring the Archives.’ Efforts of the Khama III Memorial Museum to serve the community; role of community archives in the society; ways of ensuring the accessibility to community archives; practical difficulties in establishing and sustaining community archives.
- Immigration History Research Center. An example of an institution working with various communities in establishing their archives. it is not necessarily community archiving but more institutional working with communities.
- Cambridge, D., Kaplan, S., & Suter, V. (2005). Community of practice design guide: A step-by-step guide for designing & cultivating communities of practice in higher education.
- Johnson, C. M. (2001). A survey of current research on online communities of practice. Internet and Higher Education, 4 45–60.
- McLure Wasko, M., & Faraj, S. (2000). “It is what one does”: why people participate and help others in electronic communities of practice. Journal of Strategic Information Systems, 9, 155-173.
- Ruuska, I., & Vartiainen, M. (2005). Characteristics of knowledge sharing communities in project organizations. International Journal of Project Management, 23, 374–379.
- Wenger, Etienne (2004). Communities of practice. In: Neil J. Smelser & Paul B. Baltes (Eds.), International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences (pp. 2339-40).
- Durrance, Joan C., & Fisher, Karen E. (2005). How libraries and librarians help: A guide to identifying user-centered outcomes. Chicago: American Library Association. Accessible introduction to outcome assessment; the tools and strategies described are well suited to other border learning situations besides libraries.
- Framework for evaluating impacts of informal science education projects: Report from a National Science Foundation workshop
- IBEC (Information Behavior in Everyday Contexts) project at the University of Washington. Helping maximize the impact of information in communities.
- Institute for Community Research and Youth Action Research Institute
- Koutsogiannis, Dimitris (2007). A political multi-layered approach to researching children’s digital literacy practices. Language and Education, 21(3). Raises some interesting issues about adolescents, digital literacy, and globalization, particularly about looking at non-English-speaking situations, and those in which participants come from diverse backgrounds.
- Loyola University Center for Urban Research and Learning
- Community needs assessment: Taking the pulse of your community. Focuses on the economics behind community needs assessment.
- Balaswamy, Shantha, & Dabelko, Holly (2002). Using a stakeholder participatory model in a community-wide service needs assessment of elderly residents: A case study. Journal of Community Practice, 10(1), 55-70.
- Cooper, Sandra M., et al. Community analysis methods and evaluative options: The CAMEO Handbook. See the Bibliography and other sections of the Pathway website for a wealth of information on community analysis and needs assessment . Presents community analysis from the perspective of libraries.
- Dewney, P. &Harris, R. M. (1992). Community information needs: The case of wife assault. Library and Information Science Research, 14(1), 5-29.
- Hoffmann, K., et.al., “Library Research Skills: A Needs Assessment for Graduate Student Workshops.” Issues in Science & Technology Librarianship no. 53(Winter/Spring 2008) Retrieved 23 September, 2008 from “ Library Lit & Info Full Text,” Full text, click on “E-Journallink”.
- How to do a Community Needs Assessment of a Neighborhood School . Social Work Library at University of Michigan had an article on how to do a community needs assessment for a Neighborhood school. This resource is another example of Community Engagement and Community Needs Assessment and their importance to Neighborhood School Districts. This gives an example of using two kind of need assessment tools: Decennial Census and American Community Survey.
- Jerabek, J A;McMain, L M; Van Roekel, J L.(2002) “Using needs assessment to determine library services for distance learning programs.” Journal of Interlibrary Loan,Document Delivery and Information Supply, 12 (4), pp41-61. Distance learning allows our worldwide global community to grow.
- Paling, S. W., et.al., “A Model for Assessing Digital Image Use and Needs: Report of a Study into Digital Image Use in North American Dental Education.” Library Resources &Technical Services v. 52 no. 3 (July 2008) p. 173-83. Gives an example of how a needs assessment can be used to help with digital imaging for dentists. A very interesting example that shows a different career setting but still related to information education.
- Pathways to progress 2008: Building on the Foundation for a Healthier Marin: 2008 Community Needs Assessment and Plan. A non profit hospital resource site with a community needs assessment document.
- Royse, D. (2001).“Chapter 3 Needs Assessment.” Pp 51-81. Program evaluation (3rd ed.) Belmont, CA:Brooks/Cole-Wadsworth Thompson Learning. Explains how important Needs Assessment is when doing research and explains the steps and process in undergoing a Needs Assessment project.
- Taft, Michael(1988). “Automation and human resource management”. Library Journal, 113(12), pp44-46. Retrieved 17 September, 2008 from Library and Information Science Abstracts (LISA). Needs assessment used toward human resource management, specifically an though online resource computer. This project was conducted at the Tacoma Public Library in helping decide on new applicants to hire at the library.
- Tao, Yu-Hui; Yeh,C. Rosa; Sun, Sheng-I (2006). “Improving training needs assessment processes via the Internet: system design and qualitative study.” Internet Research: Electronic Networking Applications and Policy, 16(4), pp.427-449. Discusses how the internet is used in setting up a needs assessment project. An interesting point is the use of a “Qualitative study.”
- Tropman, John E(1995). “Community Needs Assessment.” Encyclopedia of Social Work, 19th Edition Volume 1,1995. Washington D.C.:NASW Press. Information on how community needs assessment relates to social work beginning with a historical background to the Political and Technical Methods of Assessment.
- Youth Uprising Community Needs Assessment Report. Community data; the instruments were developed by youth for youth.
- Alita, John (2001, December). Creating an Internet policy by civic engagement. American Libraries, pp. 49-50.
- Author (2007, October). Local government managers and public libraries: Partners for a better community. ICMA Management Perspective, pp. 1-4.
- Brown, Juanita; Isaacs, David; the World Cafe; & The World Cafe Community. The World Cafe. San Francisco: Barrett-Koehler, 2005. A fuller description of the World Cafe exercise than is available in The Change Handbook, with an intriguing variety of case studies of organizations that conducted World Cafe (businesses, not-for-profits, universities.
- Europe in one room.
- Holman, Peggy; Devane, Tom; & Cady, Steven. The Change Handbook: The Definitive Resource on Today’s Best Methods for Engaging Whole Systems (2nd edition). San Francisco: Barrett-Koehler, 2006. Over 60 input-eliciting exercises, including World Cafe, Conversation Cafe, Study Circles, Six Sigma and many others. There are planning exercises as well as exercises designed to lead to implementation in business settings.
- Iowa Partners In Learning (video).
- Kranich, Nancy (2000, November). Libraries as civic spaces. American Libraries, 7.
- Lankes, Dave. Social activism in libraries. Library Journal summary
- McCoy, M. L. & Scully, P.L. (2002). Deliberative dialogue to expand civic Engagement: What kind of talk does democracy need? National Civic Review, 91(2), 117-135. How to enhance civic engagement using community dialogues. Emphasized is the importance of engaging communities in deliberative dialogue.
- Moran, Tom (2004, Spring). Deliberation in libraries. Texas Library Journal, 32-34.
- National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation.
- National Issues Forum.
- Pollard, Beth (2008, March). Libraries: Partners in sustaining communities. Public Management, pp. 18-22.
- Willingham, Taylor (2008). Libraries as civic agents. Public Library Quarterly, 27(2), 97-110.
- World Cafe.
- Berry, John D. (2004, June 15). BackTalk: White privilege in library land. Library Journal.
- Davis, Kiri. A girl like me. Color is more than skin deep for young African-American women struggling to define themselves. For more information and to take action.
- Fraser, S. (2008). Getting out in the “Real World”: Young men, queer and theories of gay community. Journal of Homosexuality, 55(2), 245. doi: 10.1080/00918360802129519
- Jacksonville Community Council Inc. (2009). Community engagement: Understanding the GLBT community (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender) experience with discrimination. the Jacksonville Human Rights Commission.
- Lesbian & Gay Foundation, The (2009, June 23). The 100 best LGBT blogs. The Lesbian & Gay Foundation.
- McIntosh, Peggy (1990, Winter). White privilege: Unpacking the invisible knapsack”. Independent School.
- Meyer, M. D. E. (2004). “We’re too afraid of these imaginary tensions”: Student organizing in lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender campus communities. Communication Studies, 55(4), 499. doi: 10.1080/10510970409388635.
- solutions4inclusion. aims to raise awareness and encourage creativity in the use of technology to enhance social inclusion and embed digital inclusion performance monitoring processes The site has over 1000 social inclusion projects that can be searched in three clicks.
- LGBT leadership crisis
- Zemsky, B., & Mann, D. (2008). Building organizations in a movement moment. Social Policy, 38(3), 9-59.
- Sousa, P. (2009). The ‘netroots’ revolution. Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide, 16(2), 25-26.
- Russell, Rupert. (2009). America’s gay leadership crisis. Huffington Post.
- Osburn, Dixon. (2009). Rethinking the movement for LGBT equality. The Bilerico Project.
- Smallwood, Carol (Ed.) (2010). Librarians as community partners: An outreach handbook. American Library Association. ALA Editions. [ISBN-13: 978-0-8389-1006-1]. Includes 66 focused snapshots of outreach in action, this resource reflects the creative solutions of librarians searching for new and innovative ways to build programs that meet patron needs while expanding the library’s scope into part of the community.
- Howley, K. (2005). Community media: People, places, and communication technologies. Cambridge, NY: Cambridge University Press.
- Lewis, P. & Jones, S. (Eds.) (2006). From the margins to the cutting edge: Community media and empowerment. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton.
- Linn, K. (2008). Building commons and community. Oakland, CA: New Village Press.
- The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Reports on digital media and learning (2009).
- Living and learning with new media: Summary of findings from the digital youth project provides a clear overview of the project findings.
- Hanging out, messing around, and geeking out (2009, November).
- Rennie, E. (2006). Community media: A global introduction. Toronto, ON: Rowman & Littlefield.
- Smith, Aaron; Schlozman, Kay Lehman; Verba, Sidney; & Brady, Henry (2009, September 1). The internet and civic engagement. Pew Internet & American Life Project.
- American Psychological Association definition
- Bishop, Ann P., Bruce, Bertram C., & Jeong, Sunny (2009, March). Beyond service learning: Toward community schools and reflective community learners. In Loriene Roy, Kelly Jensen, & Alex Hershey Meyers (eds.), Service learning: Linking library education and practice (pp. 16-31). Chicago, IL: ALA Editions.
- Boyte, Harry Chatten (2003). A different kind of politics: John Dewey and the meaning of citizenship in the 21st century. The Good Society, 12(2), 1-15.
- National Service-Learning Partnership
- W.K. Kellogg Foundation
- Service-learning opportunities. “Better TV’s education expert has some tips to help your children solve problems within their schools and their communities.”
- Timeline. Highlights some of the most important dates in the progression of service-learning since 1993.
- Impact of Service-Learning on Youth, Schools and Communities: Research on K-12 School-Based Service-Learning, 1990–1999. Written in 1999, it details research on the impacts of service-learning on K-12 youth, public schools and communities.
- http://www.nylc.org/pages-toolboxes. Contains works by people of various disciplines. The articles, downloads, and project examples are divided into categories including disaster preparedness and recovery, diversity, dropout prevention, getting started, HIV/AIDS, intergrating service-learning into the curriculum, making the case, standards for effective service learning practice, and youth leadership.
- Educator’s Guide to Service-Learning Program Evaluation.
- Alexander, C. (1977). A pattern language: Towns, buildings, construction. New York: Oxford University Press. A fascinating resource when planning community spaces as well as individual dwellings.
- Ames, S.C. (Ed.). (1993). A guide to community visioning: Hands-on information for local communities (pp. 13-22). Portland: Oregon Visions Project. A basic guidebook to community visioning. Chapter Three, “Visioning in Your Community”, is a good stepping off point for this topic.
- Ayers, J. (1996). Essential elements of strategic visioning. In N. Walzer (Ed.), Community strategic visioning programs (pp. 21-36). Westport, CT: Praeger.
- Big Small All. Chapter 3 – Moving forward: Objectives and action strategies: Collaborative. Part of Champaign County’s recent visioning project report, detailing goals related to creating collaborative communities.
- Bishop, A.P., et al (2001). Afya: Social and digital technologies that reach across the digital divide. First Monday, 6(4). The Afya project, a participatory action research project, “designed to engage African American women in assessing and increasing their access to quality health information and services.” A good example of how much better technology works when it is designed by the people it is meant to help.
- CDC Web site. Outline of what healthy community means from the perspective of public health officials. This is good to look at because it shows all the different aspects of community health.
- Charrettes. “A charrette is a meeting to resolve a problem or issue. Within a specified time limit, participants work together intensely to reach a resolution.” Similar to visioning, but less vision-y.
- Dunn County (WI) visioning. 10 min. presentation made before community members in Wisconsin about a forthcoming visioning process.
- Community Voices on Champaign Schools. “WILL is interviewing people who come to community planning forums created by the Unit 4 school district in Champaign, Illinois. Voices of Great Schools Together captures on video some of the hopes, challenges and perspectives of community members, parents and students regarding Champaign public schools.”
- Future Search. Focused, three-day conferences that foster planning and visioning-type activities.
- Great Schools, Together. “Conceived of by the Unit 4 School Board and supported by the Administration, this initiative brought community members together to share their vision for our schools, now and in the future.”
- Healthy People 2010 (2000). This is a report on the federal government’s goals to improve community health by 2010. The top-down approach compared to the goals of individual communities.
- Lasker, R., & Weiss, E. (2003). Broadening participation in community problem solving: A multidisciplinary model to support collaborative practice and research. Journal of Urban Health, Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine, 80(1), 14–47. A model for improving community participation in problem-solving. This article seeks to overcome perceived shortfalls of community-based research.
- Latham, J. R. (1995). Visioning: the concept, trilogy, and process. Quality Progress, 28(4), 65-68.
- NCDD’s visioning and planning. The National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation’s clearinghouse for visioning resources.
- Carl Neu, consultant. Like Steven Ames, Carl Neu is a consultant to local governments and organizations on the topics of improved governance and strategizing/visioning.
- Policy Link and the California Endowment (2007). Why place matters. Connects health, place, race, and socioeconomic status; case studies and recommendations for how to solve community health problems.
- Schindler-Rainman, E. and Lippitt, R. (1992). Building collaborative communities. in M.R. Weisbrod (ed.), Discovering common ground (pp. 35-44). San Fransisco: Berrett-Koehler. Discusses how to foster a collaborative spirit at visioning/planning conferences.
- 826 Chicago. A nonprofit writing and tutoring center located in the Wicker Park, Chicago; offers free on-location and in-school tutoring, after-school workshops, help for people learning English as an additional language, and assistance
with student publications. - 826 National.
- Alvermann, Donna E. (2002). Effective literacy instruction for adolescents. Journal of Literacy Research, 34(2), 189-208.
- Barron, Brigid J. S.; Schwartz, Daniel L.; Vye, Nancy J.; Moore, Allison; Petrosino, Anthony; Zech, Linda; Bransford, John D.; & The Cognition and Technology Group at Vanderbilt (1998). Doing with understanding: Lessons from research on problem- and project-based learning. The Journal of the Learning Sciences, 7(3 & 4): 271-311.
- Bayne, Martha. A heartwarming work of staggering generosity (2005, December). Chicago Reader, 10.
- Benson, C., & Christian, S. (with Goswami, D., & Gooch, W.H.). (Eds.). (2002). Writing to make a difference: Classroom projects for community change. New York: Teachers College Press.
- Berdan, Kristina, et al. (Eds.) (2006). Writing for a change: Boosting literacy and learning through social action, Jossey-Bass.
- Delpit, L. (1995). Other people’s children: Cultural conflict in the classroom. New York: The New Press.
- Easton, John Q.; Luppescu, Stuart,; & Rosenkranz, Todd (2007, June). 2006 ISAT Reading and Math scores in Chicago and the rest of the state. Rep. Consortium on Chicago School Research.
- Chicago Public Schools Office of Research, Evaluation, and Accountability (2009). Illinois Standards Achievement Test over time report.
- Ross, Catherine Sheldrick; McKechnie, Lynne; & Rothbauer, Paulette M. (2006). Reading matters: What the research reveals about reading, libraries, and community. Westport, Conn: Libraries Unlimited.
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- Writing
- Community engagement bibliography
- Community-based research bibliography
- Healthy environment bibliography
- Community organizing bibliography
- Citizen participation bibliography
- Asset mapping bibliography
- Community archives bibliography
- Citizen Journalism bibliography
- Visioning bibliography
- Community design bibliography
- Community needs assessment bibliography
- Civic engagement bibliography
- Service learning bibliography
- Youth development bibliography
- Non-US Community Engagement
- Community schools bibliography
- Community technology centers
- Engaged campus bibliography
- Citizen participation bibliography
- Antecedents bibliography
- Healthy communities bibliography
- What is community inquiry?