Learning Citizenship: Campus-Based Initiatives for Developing Student Change Agents

Autor/inn/en	Roberts, Dennis C.; Huffman, Erin A.
Titel	Learning Citizenship: Campus-Based Initiatives for Developing Student Change Agents
Quelle	In: About Campus, 10 (2005) 4, S.17-22 (6 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1086-4822
DOI	10.1002/abc.138
Schlagwörter	Change Agents; Sororities; Educational Change; Fraternities; Organizations (Groups); Student Organizations; College Students; Higher Education; Hazing; Drug Abuse; Sexual Abuse; Citizen Participation; Ohio + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Frauengruppe; Bildungsreform; Student organisations; Schülerorganisation; Studentenorganisation; Studentenvereinigung; Studentenvertretung; Collegestudent; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Student unions; Student organizations; Initiation rite; Initiation; Initiationsritus; Sexueller Missbrauch; 'Citizen participation; Citizens'' participation'; Bürgerbeteiligung
Abstract	The phrase "social movement" typically conjures up images of pickets, massive crowds, and noisy demonstrations. An emerging approach to campus-based change, used in Fraternal Futures and other projects, is tapping into the small, the local, and the personally relevant. The Fraternal Futures deliberation initiative--a collaborative project of Miami University and the Kettering Foundation--is a campus-based process for stakeholders in fraternities and sororities to explore complex organizational problems and to consider alternative solutions to those problems. It acknowledges that many college students' core interests lie in the groups and organizations in which they find friendship, encouragement, and a sense of identity. Although it focuses on organizations at the local level, Fraternal Futures is also intended to demonstrate the importance of civic engagement in a broader sense. Experiences to date suggest that the Fraternal Futures deliberation initiative holds more promise as a catalyst for change than traditional techniques such as the use of motivational speakers, selective training of positional leaders, or enforcement of administratively dictated policies. The Fraternal Futures deliberation initiative, and others like it, offers a promising new model for educating students on civic engagement and change. (Contains 5 notes.) (ERIC).
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Update	2017/4/10