This resource book is designed to give you information that might facilitate connections between community activism in Tucson and university research, teaching, and resources. I hope that you find the design of this workshop useful for you, and I hope these resources will be helpful.
Having said that, I would also like to reiterate at this point that how you utilize this opportunity is completely up to you. If you don't use the resources in this book, that's quite fine. If you are not able or do not wish to attend all the sessions of the workshop series, that's fine as well. What is most important from my perspective is that both community activists and university instructors, researchers, and activists have the opportunity to find out what each of us is doing in the community and in our scholarship and begin envisioning ways to collaborate or connect our work.
I will be providing additional materials throughout this process for you to add to these workbooks, and I would encourage any of you to provide materials that you would feel helpful to others. I will copy and distribute anything that is submitted to me.
Please look through this book and fill out the worksheets at your convenience. I have indicated when each sheet would be most useful for you to have completed, and I request that you return the "Feedback Questions" as soon as you can (by email or fax or in person) so that I can incorporate your feedback and responses into the final methodology that I am developing.
Thank you again for your participation, interest, and support in bringing together and mobilizing various forms of activism in our community!
Workshop Overview
Workshop Project Background
List of ParticipantsWorksheets:
ContactsResources:
Project Ideas
Issues in PartnershipsLocal Projects and contactsEvaluation Forms:
Assessment in Service Learning
Links on the Web
BibliographiesSession 1 QuestionsRecommended Readings:
From Session 1(Introduction to Our Work):
"Are Academics Irrelevant?" Randy Stoecker (Presented at the American Sociological Society Annual Meetings, 1997. Online at: http://comm-org.utoledo.edu/papers98/pr.htm)
"Ten Ways to Work Together: An Organizer's View." Dave Beckwith (Special Issue of Sociological Imagination: Sociology and Social Action Part II. Vol. 33 no. 2. Online at: http://comm-org.utoledo.edu/si/beckwith.htm)From Session 2 (Issues in Partnerships):
"Why Service Learning Is Bad." John Eby. March 1998. (http://www.messiah.edu/agape/pdf%20files/wrongsvc.pdf)
"On Trying to Get it Right: Reflections on Some Ethical Issues in Community-Academic Partnerships." Danika Brown. December 2000.