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Transformative Civic Engagement Through Community Organizing - Couverture souple

Avila, Maria

 
9781620361047: Transformative Civic Engagement Through Community Organizing
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1620361043 ISBN 13 : 9781620361047
Editeur : Routledge, 2017

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l'auteur

Maria Avila is a faculty member in the Master of Social Work program at the California State University, Dominguez Hills. She is a member of Imagining America National Advisory Board. Avila's research focuses on participatory action research with faculty and with community partners, aimed at creating democratic, civic engagement inside and outside of higher education institutions. She was Director of the Center for Community Based Learning at Occidental College from 2001-2011, having earlier worked as a community organizer and a social worker in Mexico and in the US for over 20 years. Prior to working in higher education, Avila was a community organizer with the Industrial Areas Foundation, the international network founded by the late Saul Alinksy in the 1940s. She has performed volunteer and consulting work with a number of organizations, including Partnerships to Uplift Communities, the Northeast LA Education Strategy, the City of Los Angeles, Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life, and the Council for Social Work Education's Council on Global Issues.Avila has given numerous talks and workshops in the topics of civic engagement and community organizing at national and international conferences and venues, and has published several book chapters and journal articles.

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Éditeur
Routledge
Date d'édition
2017
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1620361043
ISBN 13 
9781620361047
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
126
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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