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Acting civically : From urban neighborhoods to higher education / edited by Susan A. Ostrander & Kent E. Portney.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Medford, Mass. : Tufts University Press ; 2007Description: xii, 208 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781584656616 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 23 300.973 ACT 013591
Contents:
Machine derived contents note: Contents Preface and Acknowledgments vii Contributors ix Susan A. Ostrander and Kent E. Portney 1. Introduction: Key Issues in Civic Engagement Research Today 1 Part One Civic Engagement in Local Contexts and in Political versus Nonpolitical Voluntary Associations Kent E. Portney and Jeffrey M. Berry 2. Neighborhoods, Neighborhood Associations, and Social Capital 21 Lydia Lowe and Doug Brugge 3. Grassroots Organizing in Boston Chinatown: A Comparison with CDC-style Organizing 44 Julian Agyeman and Heather Ross 4. Building Power in Minority Neighborhoods: Boston University's Bio-safety Level Four Laboratory 72 Sarah Sobieraj and Deborah White 5. Could Civic Engagement Reproduce Political Inequality? 92 Part Two Civic Engagement in Societal Institutions: Health Care and Education Charlene A. Galarneau 6. Consumer-Sponsored Health Care Plans: Early Twentieth-Century Public Participation in United States Health Care` 113 Linda V. Beardsley 7. Teacher Education as Civic Engagement: Building Bridges and Community through Professional Development Schools 130 Jean Y. Wu 8. Race Matters in Civic Engagement Work 158 Susan A. Ostrander 9. Three Major Foundations and the Decline in Funding for Higher Education Civic Engagement, 1995 to 2005 183 Index 201.
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c2007 Tufts University Press.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine derived contents note: Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments vii
Contributors ix
Susan A. Ostrander and Kent E. Portney
1. Introduction: Key Issues in Civic Engagement Research Today 1
Part One
Civic Engagement in Local Contexts and in
Political versus Nonpolitical Voluntary
Associations
Kent E. Portney and Jeffrey M. Berry
2. Neighborhoods, Neighborhood Associations, and
Social Capital 21
Lydia Lowe and Doug Brugge
3. Grassroots Organizing in Boston Chinatown:
A Comparison with CDC-style Organizing 44
Julian Agyeman and Heather Ross
4. Building Power in Minority Neighborhoods:
Boston University's Bio-safety Level Four Laboratory 72
Sarah Sobieraj and Deborah White
5. Could Civic Engagement Reproduce Political Inequality? 92
Part Two
Civic Engagement in Societal Institutions:
Health Care and Education
Charlene A. Galarneau
6. Consumer-Sponsored Health Care Plans:
Early Twentieth-Century Public Participation in
United States Health Care` 113
Linda V. Beardsley
7. Teacher Education as Civic Engagement:
Building Bridges and Community through
Professional Development Schools 130
Jean Y. Wu
8. Race Matters in Civic Engagement Work 158
Susan A. Ostrander
9. Three Major Foundations and the Decline in Funding for
Higher Education Civic Engagement, 1995 to 2005 183
Index 201.

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