Innovative Approaches for Teaching Community Organization Skills in the Classroom

by Hardina; Donna

• ISBN13: 9780789010018
• ISBN10: 0789010011
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2000-06-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Bring your students the latest developments in community organization! Innovative Approaches for Teaching Community Organization Skills in the Classroom will help social work educators efficiently teach students methods of practice that they need to know in order to offer the best services to clients with a variety of different needs in a variety of settings. Here you'll find assignments and exercises that combine new technology with progressive ideas about integrating theory and practice. This valuable book consistently addresses topics that will stimulate discussion on the value assumptions inherent in community practice, appropriate ways to transmit these values in the classroom, and the best way to help students develop their own frameworks for ethical decisionmaking. Innovative Approaches for Teaching Community Organization Skills in the Classroom will be a valuable addition to your collection. This accessible and comprehensive book identifies and provides detailed information for teaching these skills in the classroom: ethical decisionmaking community assessment interpersonal skills development making your practice effective in a multi-cultural environment organizing your practice with computer technology This book describes teaching methods that will educate your students on the development of self-awareness, multicultural competency, and ethical content for practice, preparing them for the diverse situations that may arise in their professional careers.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(4)
Models and Tactics Taught in Community Organization Courses: Findings from a Survey of Practice Instructors	5	(14)
Donna Hardina
``Of Means and Ends'' Revisited: Teaching Ethical Community Organizing in an Unethical Society	19	(20)
Michael Reisch
Jane Isaacs Lowe
Educating Students for Multicultural Community Practice	39	(18)
Lorraine Gutierrez
Ann Rosegrant Alvarez
Product and Process Dialectic: Developing and Indigenous Approach to Community Development Training	57	(14)
Eleanor Wint
Vishantie Sewpaul
Grassroots Leadership Training: A Case Study of an Effort to Integrate Theory and Method	71	(24)
Eric Zachary
Organizing Cyberspace: Strategies for Teaching About Community Practice and Technology	95	(16)
John McNutt
Index	111