» książki » Social Science - Volunteer Work
topmenu
 |
Creating Person-Centred Organisations: Strategies and Tools for Managing Change in Health, Social Care and the Voluntary Sector
ISBN: 9781849052603 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Person-centred thinking and planning are approaches that enable people using social care and health services to plan their future, and use a personal budget to commission personalised services. Creating Person-Centred Organisations is a guide for organisations who want to deliver personalised services. Key issues covered include attending to the vision, strategy and business planning of the organisation, as well as organisational processes, culture and managing change. Drawing on the pioneering work of the social care charity United Response, the authors provide a wealth of practical tools...
Person-centred thinking and planning are approaches that enable people using social care and health services to plan their future, and use a personal ...
|
cena:
209,16 |
 |
Nurturing Sanctuary: Community Capacity Building in African American Churches
ISBN: 9781433125973 / Angielski / Miękka / 199 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How are predominantly African American churches meeting the needs of young people? What resources of, and tensions in, faith leadership are shaping answers to this and other related questions? Nurturing Sanctuary analyzes ways in which the two most vital institutions of the Black experience - families and churches - are working with schools and health providers to respond to contemporary challenges and improve the twenty-first century life chances of African Americans and others. Data were generated from a four-year collaboration of eighteen churches, public health professionals,...
How are predominantly African American churches meeting the needs of young people? What resources of, and tensions in, faith leadership are shaping an...
|
cena:
220,67 |
 |
Higher Education and Civic Engagement: Comparative Perspectives
ISBN: 9780230340374 / Angielski / Twarda / 287 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Higher Education and Civic Engagement provides an original and challenging contribution to contemporary debates on the civic purpose of higher education. It explores teaching and learning, research, and service in a range of international contexts. This book is essential reading for higher education leaders, faculty, administrators, and members of community considering the civic role of higher education in society.
Higher Education and Civic Engagement provides an original and challenging contribution to contemporary debates on the civic purpose of higher educati...
|
cena:
223,45 |
 |
Higher Education and Civic Engagement: Comparative Perspectives
ISBN: 9781349342945 / Angielski / Miękka / 287 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Provides an original and challenging contribution to contemporary debates on the civic purpose of higher education, exploring its manifestations through practices of teaching and research. Offers critical perspectives on the role of higher education institutions in terms of realizing civic missions, especially in current global market conditions.
Provides an original and challenging contribution to contemporary debates on the civic purpose of higher education, exploring its manifestations throu...
|
cena:
223,45 |
 |
Advancing Knowledge in Service-Learning: Research to Transform the Field (PB)
ISBN: 9781593115685 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The chapters in this book all demonstrate just how far service-learningresearch has come. Researchers, practitioners, and students alike havebenefited from its dissemination and use the research to improve practice.The research does not simply inform educators how to create a better pedagogy. Rather, it informs a service-learning practice that can transformboth individuals and institutions.
The chapters in this book all demonstrate just how far service-learningresearch has come. Researchers, practitioners, and students alike havebenefited...
|
cena:
235,31 |
 |
Challenges in Volunteer Management (PB)
ISBN: 9781593119249 / Angielski / Miękka / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A volume in Research in Public Management Series Editors: Lawrence R. Jones and Nancy C. Roberts, Naval Postgraduate School Volunteer management has many challenges, not the least of which is how we study it and view it. Academics examine it from a variety of disciplines and practitioners experience it in a variety of contexts. However both approaches have limitations. In academia we go to public administration schools to learn about public and nonprofit management, to business schools to apply the principles of private enterprise to nonprofit management, to sociology departments to study the...
A volume in Research in Public Management Series Editors: Lawrence R. Jones and Nancy C. Roberts, Naval Postgraduate School Volunteer management has m...
|
cena:
235,31 |
 |
The Course Reflection Project: Faculty Reflections on Teaching Service-Learning
ISBN: 9781681230108 / Angielski / Miękka / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Service-learning is entering a post-initiatory phase. At tertiary institutions of all types and sizes, service-learning programs are common and service-learning requirements for graduation are growing in popularity. Taken together -- alongside continued faculty interest in effective teaching -- these factors have raised the visibility and popularity of service-learning. Now the greater need in service-learning is not to prove the need for, or efficacy of, service-learning, but to turn the focus squarely back on practice. Following established best practice is not enough; instructors also need...
Service-learning is entering a post-initiatory phase. At tertiary institutions of all types and sizes, service-learning programs are common and servic...
|
cena:
235,31 |
 |
Seva, Saviour and State: Caste Politics, Tribal Welfare and Capitalist Development: Caste Politics, Tribal Welfare and Capitalist Development
ISBN: 9780367177034 / Angielski / Miękka / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
cena:
243,36 |
 |
Transformative Education Through International Service-Learning: Realising an Ethical Ecology of Learning
ISBN: 9780815360551 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
cena:
258,26 |
 |
Service-Learning to Advance Social Justice in a Time of Radical Inequality
ISBN: 9781681233734 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A volume in Advances in Service-Learning Research Series Editor: Virginia M. Jagla, National Louis University When considering inequality, one goal for educators is to enhance critical engagement to allow learners an opportunity to participate in an inquiry process that advances democracy. Service-learning pedagogy offers an opportunity to advance engaged-learning opportunities within higher education. This is particularly important given the power dynamics that are endemic within conversations about education, including the conversations around the Common Core, charter schools, and the...
A volume in Advances in Service-Learning Research Series Editor: Virginia M. Jagla, National Louis University When considering inequality, one goal fo...
|
cena:
261,45 |
 |
The Penal Voluntary Sector
ISBN: 9781138500051 / Angielski / Miękka / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
cena:
263,24 |
 |
Liberating Service Learning and the Rest of Higher Education Civic Engagement
ISBN: 9781439913512 / Angielski / Twarda / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Randy Stoecker has been practicing forms of community-engaged scholarship, including service learning, for thirty years now, and he readily admits, Practice does not make perfect. In his highly personal critique, "Liberating Service Learning and the Rest of Higher Education Civic Engagement, "the author worries about the contradictions, unrealized potential, and unrecognized urgency of the causes as well as the risks and rewards of this work. Here, Stoecker questions the prioritization and theoretical/philosophical underpinnings of the core concepts of service learning: 1. learning, 2....
Randy Stoecker has been practicing forms of community-engaged scholarship, including service learning, for thirty years now, and he readily admits, Pr...
|
cena:
317,92 |
 |
Missing Class
ISBN: 9780801452567 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Many activists worry about the same few problems in their groups: low turnout, inactive members, conflicting views on racism, overtalking, and offensive violations of group norms. But in searching for solutions to these predictable and intractable troubles, progressive social movement groups overlook class culture differences. In Missing Class, Betsy Leondar-Wright uses a class-focused lens to show that members with different class life experiences tend to approach these problems differently. This perspective enables readers to envision new solutions that draw on the strengths of... Many activists worry about the same few problems in their groups: low turnout, inactive members, conflicting views on racism, overtalking, and offe... |
cena:
342,76 |
 |
We Make Change: Community Organizers Talk about What They Do--And Why
ISBN: 9780826515544 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Community organizers work at their jobs because they are passionate, because they believe that change is possible, and because they enjoy working with people. Although it's not an occupation that leads to great wealth, community organizers can make a living at it. They get salaries, pensions and health insurance. They raise families. They do well by doing good. This book explores the world of community organizing through the voices of real people working in the field, in small towns and city neighborhoods--women and men of different races and economic backgrounds, ranging in age from those in...
Community organizers work at their jobs because they are passionate, because they believe that change is possible, and because they enjoy working with...
|
cena:
376,49 |
 |
The Ideology of Civic Engagement: Americorps, Politics, and Pedagogy
ISBN: 9781438481333 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
cena:
379,10 |
 |
Rebuilding Community After Katrina: Transformative Education in the New Orleans Planning Initiative
ISBN: 9781439910993 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Rebuilding Community after Katrina "chronicles the innovative and ambitious partnership between Cornell University s City and Regional Planning department and ACORN Housing, an affiliate of what was the nation s largest low-income community organization. These unlikely allies came together to begin to rebuild devastated neighborhoods in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. " " The editors and contributors to this volume allow participants voices to show how this partnership integrated careful, technical analysis with aggressive community outreach and organizing. With essays by... "Rebuilding Community after Katrina "chronicles the innovative and ambitious partnership between Cornell University s City and Regional Planning de... |
cena:
382,50 |
 |
Research for What? Making Engaged Scholarship Matter (Hc)
ISBN: 9781617351662 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A volume in Advances in Service-Learning Research Series Editor Shelley H. Billig, RMC Research Corporation, Denver Research on service-learning and community engagement has exploded over the past decade. It is a field now characterized by increasing methodological and theoretical sophistication, vast quantitative and qualitative studies, interdisciplinary research, myriad subjects, and the internationalization of scholarship. The papers in this volume were selected from nearly 100 presentations made at the 2009 annual conference of the International Association for Research on Service...
A volume in Advances in Service-Learning Research Series Editor Shelley H. Billig, RMC Research Corporation, Denver Research on service-learning and c...
|
cena:
392,18 |
 |
Your Career in the Media & Creative Industries
ISBN: 9781529796520 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
cena:
397,40 |
 |
Collective Action for Social Change: An Introduction to Community Organizing
ISBN: 9780230111257 / Angielski / Miękka / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Community organizers build solidarity and collective power in fractured communities. They help ordinary people turn their private pain into public action, releasing hidden capacities for leadership and strategy. In Collective Action for Social Change, Aaron Schutz and Marie G. Sandy draw on their extensive experience participating in community organizing activities and teaching courses on the subject to empower novices to think like an organizers.
Community organizers build solidarity and collective power in fractured communities. They help ordinary people turn their private pain into public act...
|
cena:
406,31 |
 |
Rhetorics of Welfare: Uncertainty, Choice and Voluntary Associations
ISBN: 9781349422067 / Angielski / Miękka / 237 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book explores comparatively the role of non-profit organizations in conditions of social and economic change. The focus of the study is an investigation of the proposition that non-profit organizations provide sites and processes for enhancing active citizenship, invigorating the public sphere and extending political participation. The study explores the economic constraints on voluntary associations and argues that they can function as 'schools of democracy'. This book is the first national study of the third-sector in Australia, but its conclusions have a general relevance to...
The book explores comparatively the role of non-profit organizations in conditions of social and economic change. The focus of the study is an investi...
|
cena:
406,31 |
Czytaj nas na:
Zobacz: Księgarnia Czeska | Wydawnictwo Książkowe Klimaty | Mapa strony | Lista autorów
KrainaKsiazek.PL - Księgarnia Internetowa
KrainaKsiazek.PL - Księgarnia Internetowa
