Critical Discussions of Urban Community Organizing
Newer posts in this series are available at my OpenLeft diary page, here.
Older posts at Education Policy Blog are listed below
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Introducing Congregational Organizing
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Organizing Basics
--Core Dilemmas of Community Organizing in Urban America(MSWord ersion)
--Endowments as One Solution [to the Organizing Funding Crisis]
For a comprehensive overview, see my:
Online Community Organizing Course.
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Education Organizing
-4 Million Dollars and 24 Nurses: Beyond Pedagogy to Collective Power
-Education is a Tough Nut to Crack
-Buying Off the Fighters
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Youth Organizing
-In Youth Action, Power Precedes Engagement, Learning, and Understanding
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Organizing and Difference
-The Limits of Churches as Representatives of Impoverished Communities
-Fracturing Across Lines of Race and Class
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Organizing and Democracy
-Deliberation vs. Participation
-Culturally Miseducated for Civic Action
-Is Progressive Democratic Education Undemocratic?
-Empowerment and the Failure of Progressive Education
-Contesting Progressivism: Discretion as Oppression
-The Costs of Democratic Participation
-Coopted by Foundations?
-Fixing the Community Organizing Funding Disaster
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Education Scholarship and Organizing
-Scholarly Participation in Organizing Campaigns: Research that Makes a Problem “Hit Home”
-Discussion of "Education Scholars Have Much to Learn: An Essay Review of Jeannie Oakes's and John Rogers's Learning Power"
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Note on Blogging and Scholarship
In my published scholarship, I seek to be as accurate and comprehensive as possible. I see blogging as a very different animal. My posts are really "think pieces," meant to provoke thinking and frame out possibilities, often written very quickly. When I cite research, I do it selectively, often from examples I happen to know about. The option for people to respond means that if I make obvious mistakes, there is an opportunity for the community to correct them (to the extent that anyone is reading my posts in the first place). Please note that I have frequently edited and will continue to develop blog posts without necessarily indicating I have done this. See also "Why I Blog."