CHANGE! A Student Guide to Social Action - Couverture souple

Myers-Lipton, Scott

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1032418028 ISBN 13 : 9781032418025

Editeur : Routledge, 2023

Synopsis

This valuable new edition includes updates to the Student Victories section, reordering and updating of chapters for better student learning, and updates to all of the portfolio assignments. Guiding students, faculty, and staff, this book enables students to get a first-hand experience of democracy and power.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Dr. Scott Myers-Lipton is Professor of Sociology at San José State University, and is the author of CHANGE! A Guide to Teaching Social Action (Routledge 2022), Ending Extreme Inequality: An Economic Bill of Rights Approach to Eliminate Poverty (Routledge 2015), Rebuild America: Solving the Economic Crisis through Civic Works (Paradigm 2009), and Social Solutions to Poverty: America's Struggle to Build a Just Society (Paradigm 2006), as well as numerous scholarly articles on racism, education, and civic engagement. Along with his students, he co-founded the successful effort to raise the minimum wage in San José from $8 to $10, the modernization of San José's business tax, and the Gulf Coast Civic Works Campaign, an initiative to develop 100,000 prevailing wage jobs for local and displaced workers after Hurricane Katrina. He has worked to help students develop solutions to poverty by taking them to live at homeless shelters, the Navajo and Lakota nations, the U.S. Gulf Coast, and Kingston, Jamaica. Scott Myers-Lipton is the recipient of the Manuel Vega Latino Empowerment Award, San José/Silicon Valley NAACP Social Justice Award, the Elbert Reed Award from the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Association of Santa Clara County, the Change Maker Award from the Silicon Valley Council of Nonprofits, the Teaching Effectiveness Award from the SJSU College of Social Sciences, and the SJSU Distinguished Service Award. In addition, he serves as an Advisory Board Member of the SJSU Human Rights Institute. He lives with his wife, Diane, in San José, and they are the proprietors of the Sequoia Retreat Center.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1032418028
• ISBN 13: 9781032418025
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 156
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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