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Citizenship Training in AmeriCorps Manual Index Preface
Introduction: The Guide Format and the Goals of AmeriCorps
Chapter One: The Framework: Democracy, Citizenship, Politics and Service
Chapter Two: Encouraging (Civic) Responsibility
Chapter Three: Strengthening Community (Capacity)
Chapter Four: Getting Things Done
Chapter Five: Expanding Opportunity
Resource A: Glossary
Resource B: Bibliography
Resource C: More Resources Contents Resource A: Glossary
Resource B: Bibliography
Resource C: More Resources Resource A: Glossary The language you use is important: It serves as a map and guide for effective public action. Below is a quick list of the ideas and skills central to this guide. Compare these definitions to what you came up with earlier in this book. Civic Concepts
The ideas that define the way you work. Citizenship: The act of contributing to public life and participating in solving public problems. Democracy: The idea that everyone has an active role to play governing our public world. Diversity: The differences of ideas, opinions, histories, and cultures that exist among any people. Using these differences to solve problems is essential to citizenship and service. Politics: "The work of the citizen." The art and practice of working with diverse people to solve public problems. Power: "To be able." The set of relationships you have to others that allows you to make changes and solve problems. Examples include knowledge, position, and numbers. Public: An organized group (outside of your immediate family and friends) acting together to solve shared problems. You act differently in public life than private life because you want to accomplish different things. Public Wisdom: The community's memory of how everyone's actions combine to make a difference over time. Using diversity to solve public problems creates public wisdom. Self-interest: What is important to you and motivates you to become involved in public life. Self-interest determines what you're willing to act on. Civic Arts
The skills we must learn and use in order to make a difference. Accountability: Following through with an action you have agreed to do. Being responsible for tracking the results of the action. Active Listening: The work that is required to understand others' self- interests. Requires recognizing your own self-interest—and not letting it get in the way of hearing a different perspective. Disciplined Anger: Harnessing your frustration in a way that helps solve problems. Allows you to work with those you disagree with or whom you may not like. Evaluation: Examining what worked, what could have worked better, and how you felt about a public meeting, action, or event. Creative Thinking: The resourcefulness and open-mindedness to invent different ways of solving public problems. In order to change what isn't working, you must be able to envision a better way. Interviewing: Asking probing questions to learn about others' self- interests and capacities. Negotiation: Finding solutions that everybody can live with, by expressing your self-interest, discovering others' self-interest, discussing the problem, and debating suggested solutions. Power Analysis: Figuring out who holds the power on a particular issue, why, and how you can use this knowledge to solve public problems. Public Judgment: A consensus opinion about a situation or issue, which is created after debate, discussion, and imagining alternatives. Opens the door to many different solutions to any one problem. Storytelling: Using your past and your experiences to explain to others why you believe what you believe and to describe what is important to you. Strategic Planning: Creating a workplan to help frame your team's actions. Suspending Pre-judgment: Not allowing your own self-interest to affect what you hear when others are describing their self-interests. Resource B: Bibliography This bibliography is arranged by core concepts and themes in this guide. It is a partial bibliography, designed to point in some directions that might be of interest. Citizenship/Civic Education Adams, Frank, Unearthing Seeds of Fire: The Idea of Highlander (Winston- Salem, N.C.: John F. Blair, 1975). Barber, Benjamin R. and Richard M. Battistoni, eds., Education for Democracy (Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall Hunt, 1993). Boyte, Harry, "Citizenship as Public Work and Public Freedom." In Don Eberly, ed., Building a Community of Citizens (New York: University Press of America, 1994). Boyte, Harry, "Reinventing Citizenship." In Kettering Review, Winter 1994. Boyte, Harry, et. al., "White Paper on the New Citizenship." In The Responsive Community, Spring 1994. Gross, Richard E. and Thomas L. Dynneson, Social Science Perspectives on Citizenship Education (New York: Teachers College, 1990). Gutman, Amy, Democratic Education (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987). Lappe, Frances Moore and Paul Martin Du Bois, The Quickening of America (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, Inc., 1994). Morse, Suzanne W., Renewing Civic Capacity: Preparing College Students for Service and Citizenship. ASHE-ERIC Higher Education Report No. 8. (Washington, D.C.: School of Education and Human Development, The George Washington University, 1989). Service Barber, Benjamin R., An Aristocracy of Everyone (New York: Ballantine Books, 1992). Gorham, Eric B., National Service, Citizenship, and Political Education (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992). Public Arendt, Hannah, The Human Condition (Chicago: University of Chicago, 1958). Bellah, Robert, et. al., Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985). Boyte Harry, "The Pragmatic Ends of Popular Politics." In Craig Calhoun, ed., Habermas and the Public Sphere (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1992). Elshtain, Jean Bethke, "Public Man, Private Woman" (Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press, 1981). Evans, Sara, "Women's History and Political Theory: Towards a Feminist Approach to Public Life." In Nancy Hewitt and Suzanne Lebsoci, eds., Visible Women: New Essays on American Activism (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993). Habermas, Jurgen, The Transformation of the Public Sphere (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1989). Ryan, Mary, Women in Public: Between Banners and Ballots, 1825-1880 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1990). Democracy/Politics Aristotle, Politics, Books I, II, and IV (various). Barber, Benjamin R., Strong Democracy: Participatory Politics for a New Age (Berkeley: University of California, 1984). Bellah, Robert, The Good Society (New York: Knopf, 1991). Boyte, Harry, "Practical Politics," in Barber and Battistoni, Education for Democracy supra. Crick, Bernard, In Defense of Politics (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1972). Dionne, E.J. Jr., Why Americans Hate Politics (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1991). Ehrenhalt, Alan, The United States of Ambition: Politicians, Power and the Pursuit of Office (New York: Times Book, 1991). Elshtain, Jean Bethke, Democracy on Trial (New York: Basic Books, 1995). Evans, Sara, Born for Liberty: A History of Women in America (New York: Free Press, 1989). Greider, William, Who Will Tell the People?: The Betrayal of American Democracy (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1992). Jefferson, Thomas, Notes on the State of Virginia (New York: Norton, 1972). Kerber, Linda, Women of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America (New York: Norton, 1986). Lappe, Frances Moore, Rediscovering America's Values (New York: Ballantine, 1989). Madison, James, No. 10 in Madison, et. al. The Federalist Papers (various). Mathews, David, Politics for People (Champaign: University of Illinois, 1994). Nash, Gary, Race, Class and Politics: Essays on American Colonial and Revolutionary Society (Urbana: University of Illinois, 1986). Pitkin, Hannah F. and Sara M. Shumer, "On Participation." In democracy 2, 1982. Putman, Robert D., Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993). Weber, Max, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (New York: Scribner, 1958). Weil, Simone, Oppression and Liberty (Amherst: University of Massachusetts, 1973). Wood, Gordon, The Radicalism of the American Revolution (New York: Vintage, 1991). Power Alinsky, Saul, Reveille for Radicals (New York: Vintage, 1946). Boyte, Harry, CommonWealth: A Return to Citizen Politics (New York: Free Press, 1989). Evans, Sara, and Harry Boyte, Introduction to the revised edition of Free Spaces: The Sources of Democratic Change in America (Chicago: University of Chicago, 1992). Scott, James, Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance (New Haven: Yale University, 1985). Self-Interest Boyte, Harry, "The Politics of Everyday Life," Ch. 4 in CommonWealth, supra. Hirschman, Albert, The Passions and the Interests (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1977). Kari, Nancy, and Peg Michels, "The Politics of Empowerment: The Lazarus Project." In American Journal of Occupational Therapy 45, 1991. Freedom Berlin, Isaiah, "Two Conceptions of Liberty," in Michael Sandel, ed., Liberalism and Its Critics (New York: New York University, 1984). Boyte, Harry, "Public Freedom." In Thomas Moody and Richard Schmitt, eds., Alienation and Social Criticism (New York: Humanities Press, 1993). Ellison, Ralph, Invisible Man (New York: McGraw, 1981). King Richard, "Citizenship and Self-Respect: The Experience of Politics in the Civil Rights Movement." In Journal of American Studies 22, 1988. Civil Rights/Citizenship Schools Branch, Taylor, Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-1963 (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988). Brisbane, Robert H., Black Activism: Racial Revolution in the United States, 1954-1970 (Valley Forge, PA: Judson Press, 1974). Evans, Sara, Personal Politics: The Roots of Women's Liberation in the Civil Rights Movement and the New Left (New York: Knopf, 1979). King, Jr., Martin Luther, Why We Can't Wait (New York: Harper and Row, 1963). Morris, Aldon, The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement: Black Communities Organizing for Change (New York: Free Press, 1984). Public Role of Professional/Professionalism Bledstein, Barton, The Culture of Professionalism: The Middle Class and the Development of Higher Education in America (New York: Norton, 1976). Bender, Thomas, Public Life and the Intellect (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1992). Berger, Peter and Richard Neuhaus, To Empower People: The Role of Mediating Structures in Public Policy (Washington: American Enterprise Institute, 1977). Boyte, Harry and Nancy Kari, "The Citizen Politics of Health: Breaking the Iron Cage." In Dissent, Spring 1994. Kretzmann, John P. and John L. McKnight, Building Communities From the Inside Out (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University, 1993). Lasch, Christopher, Haven in a Heartless World: The Family Besieged (Basic Books, 1977). Polsky, Andrew, The Rise of the Therapeutic State (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991). Reich, Robert, The Work of Nation: Preparing Ourselves for the Twenty-first Century (New York: Knopf, 1991). Schon, Donald, The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think in Action (New York: Basic Books, 1983). Schorr, Lisbeth, "What Works: Applying What We Already Know About Successful Social Policy." In The American Prospect 13, 1993. Populism/Community Organizing Alinsky, Saul, Rules for Radicals (Vintage, 1972). Berry, Jeffrey M., et. al., The Rebirth of Urban Democracy (Washington: The Brookings Institution, 1993). Bobo Kim, et al., Organizing for Social Change: A Manual for Activists in the 1990's (Cabin John, MD: Seven Locks Press, 1990). Boyte, Harry, "Populism Versus the Left." In democracy 2, 1981. Boyte, Harry and Frank Riessman, eds., The New Populism (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1986). Fisher, Steven, ed., Fighting Back in Appalachia: Traditions of Resistance and Change (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1993). Goodwyn, Lawrence, The Populist Moment (New York: Oxford, 1978). Hahn, Steven, The Roots of Southern Populism (New York: Oxford, 1983). Horowitt, Sanford D., Let Them Call Me Rebel: Saul Alinsky, His Life and Legacy (New York: Knopf, 1989). Kretzmann, John P. and John L. McKnight, Building Communities From the Inside Out (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University, 1993). Kling, Joseph and Prudence Posner, Dilemmas of Activism: Class, Community and the Politics of Local Mobilization (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990). Lasch, Christopher, The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics (New York: Norton, 1991). Resource C: More Resources The following is a list of resources you may find useful. The organizations have networks and publications that may help you with your work. This list is just a beginning—add who and what you find useful in your work in citizenship and service. Organizations Education: IDEALS Project
Nat'l Assoc. of Partners in Education
209 Madison Street, Suite 401
Alexandria, VA 22314
(703) 836-4880 Innovation Partners
1101 Johnson Street
Menlo Park, CA 94025
(415) 322-8366 National Youth Leadership Council
386 McNeal Hall
University of Minnesota
St. Paul, MN 55108
(612) 631-3672 Quality Education for Minorities
1818 N. Street, NW, Suite 350
Washington, D.C. 20036
(202) 659-1818 Highlander Research and Education Center
Route 3, Box 370
New Market, TN 37820
(615) 933-3443 Service Internships and Fellowships: Public Allies
1511 K Street, NW, Suite 330
Washington, D.C. 20005
(202) 638-3300 Southern Community Partners
214 Taylor Education Building
North Carolina Central University
Durham, NC 27707
(919) 683-1840 National and Community Service Groups: 4-H Center for Youth Development
340 Coffey Hall
University of Minnesota
St. Paul, MN 55057
(612) 625-9700 Young People for National Service
1511 K Street, N.W., Suite 949
Washington, D.C. 20005
(202) 234-2057 Points of Light Foundation
1737 H Street, NW,
Washington, D.C. 20006
(202) 223-9186 Youth Service America (YSA)
1101 15th Street NW, Suite 200
Washington, D.C. 20005
(202) 296-2992 This list of organizations was compiled with information from a more comprehensive guide in Who Cares, Spring 1994. By the People is based on the citizenship framework developed by Center for Democracy and Citizenship. It draws upon and incorporates text from the following the CDC publications: Making the Rules, third ed., Melissa Bass, 1994.
Reinventing Citizenship, Kathryn Stoff Hogg, ed., 1994.
The Civic Declaration, Harry Boyte, et. al., 1994.
Building Ownership: A Coach's Guide to Teaching Politics, Rebecca Breuer and Fraser Nelson, 1992.
The Book: The Political Educator's Guide to Citizen Politics, Kathryn Stoff Hogg, ed., 1992. For information on these and other publications, contact the CDC. This work also benefits from materials written and distributed by AmeriCorps and the Corporation for National Service. The University of Minnesota is an equal opportunity employer and educator. The Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs is hospitable to a diversity of opinions and aspirations. The Institute does not itself take positions on issues of public policy. The contents of this report are the responsibility of the author. Manual Index Preface
Introduction: The Guide Format and the Goals of AmeriCorps
Chapter One: The Framework: Democracy, Citizenship, Politics and Service
Chapter Two: Encouraging (Civic) Responsibility
Chapter Three: Strengthening Community (Capacity)
Chapter Four: Getting Things Done
Chapter Five: Expanding Opportunity
Resource A: Glossary
Resource B: Bibliography
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