March 27th, 2014
This afternoon David Mathews Center for Civic Life Executive Director Chris McCauley and I did a pre-conference workshop at the Gulf-South Summit on Service Learning and Community Engagement at our Cornerstone Member Auburn University.
Our workshop, “Are We Walking on the Same Path?“, focused on engaged learning from the community partner perspective and equipped participants to design experiences which align community partner outcomes with student learning objectives.
I promised the group I would share some key resources with them, and what better way to do that then via this blog!
Literature
Mills, S. D. (December 07, 2012). The Four Furies: Primary Tensions between Service-Learners and Host Agencies. Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 19, 1, 33-43.
Stoecker, R., Tryon, E. A., & Hilgendorf, A. (2009). The Unheard Voices: Community Organizations and Service Learning. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
Moulton, M., & Moulton, P. (April 2013). How Are We Doing? Making Service- Learning Assessment Simple. Journal of Service-Learning in Higher Education, 2, 37-46.
Community Partner Training Materials
Community Partner Resource Guide To Service Learning, California State University, Channel Islands
Community Partner Guide to Service- Learning, The University of Tennessee
Nonprofit Sector Resources
The Nonprofit Sector in Brief: Public Charities, Giving, and Volunteering (2013) Urban Institute
Transactions – Transformations – Translations: Metrics That Matter for Building, Scaling, and Funding Social Movements (2011) University of Southern California Program for Environmental and Regional Equity
Diversity Education Resources
Privilege Walk Exercise, University of Arizona
note: there are many examples of privilege walk exercises available via a Google search
Community Action Poverty Simulation, Missouri Association for Community Action
MACA may be able to connect you with an organization in your area that owns a poverty simulation kit
Test Your Knowledge of the Hidden Rules of Class, Ruby Payne
Modern Money Monopoly, University of Missouri Kansas City
BaFa’ BaFa’, Simulation Training Systems
Animating Democracy, Americans for the Arts