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Transformative Civic Engagement Through Community Organizing (Hardcover)
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Transformative Civic Engagement Through Community Organizing (Hardcover)
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Maria Avila presents a personal account of how, from her experience
as a teenager working in a factory in Ciudad Juarez, she got
involved in community organizing and how she has since applied its
distinctive practices to civic engagement in higher education. Her
premise is that community organizing can help create a culture that
values and rewards civically engaged scholarship and thus advance
higher education's public, democratic mission. Adapting what she
learned during her years as an organizer with the Industrial Areas
Foundation, she describes a practice that aims for full reciprocity
between partners and is achieved through the careful nurturing of
relationships, a mutual understanding of personal narratives,
leadership building, power analysis, and critical reflection. She
demonstrates how she implemented the process in various
institutions and in various contexts and shares lessons learned.
Community organizing recognizes the need to understand the world as
it is in order to create spaces where stakeholders can dialogue and
deliberate about strategies for creating the world as we would like
it to be. Maria Avila offers a vision and process that can lead to
creating institutional change in higher education, in communities
surrounding colleges and universities, and in society at large.
This book is a narrative of her personal and professional journey
and of how she has gone about co-creating spaces where democracy
can be enacted and individual, institutional, and community
transformation can occur. In inviting us to experience the process
of organizing, and in keeping with its values and spirit, she
includes the voices of the participants in the initiatives in which
she collaborated aEURO" stakeholders ranging from community
partners to faculty, students, and administrators in higher
education.
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