Transformative Civic Engagement Through Community Organizing

Community Organizing Recognizes The Need To Understand The World As It Is In Order To Create Spaces Where Stakeholders Can Dialogue And Deliberate About Strategies For Creating The World As We Would Like It To Be. Maria Avila Offers A Vision And Process That Can Lead To Creating Institutional Change In Higher Education, In Communities Surrounding Colleges And Universities, And In Society At Large. Book Jacket. 1 Introduction And Overview 1 -- 2 Four Community Organizing Practices Creating Culture Change 18 -- 3 How Community Organizing Evolved At Occidental College 34 -- 4 The Market, Civically Engaged Scholarship, And Reciprocity 57 -- 5 Concluding Points And Final Reflections 85. Maria Avila ; Foreword By Scott Peters ; Afterword By Michael Gecan. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.