Leading Change Network Teaching Initiative

Posted by Leading Change Network Teaching Initiative on February 16, 2015

The Leading Change Network Teaching Initiative (LCNTI)

Interested in Launching A Course At Your College entitled: Organizing: People, Power & Change? The time, energy, and intensity of teaching this course demands a great deal of personal and professional reflection. If you are exploring teaching this course because you care about the topic at hand (democratic leadership, social change, community organizing) and you are highly motivated to deepen your own knowledge and experience of developing the leadership of your students as they learn tools of social change, then this course is for you.

The Leading Change Network Teaching Initiative (LCNTI) supports college and university educators with developing courses in the practice of leadership, organizing, and action. Courses in organizing practice can enable students – and teachers – to develop an urgently needed capacity for civic leadership – and contribute to creating cultures of active citizenship in the college as a whole. The LNCTI creates opportunities for training, peer coaching, ongoing learning, mentoring, and sharing resources.

The LCN Pedagogy: Organizing: People, Power & Change

Marshall Ganz and collaborators have developed a pedagogy for introducing the practice of civic leadership, organizing and action to a rising generation. This approach is based on offering students an opportunity to organize others to work together to achieve shared purpose rooted in five specific practices: relationship building, story telling, strategizing, acting, and structuring leadership. Students commit to values based organizing projects that require mobilizing others to determine, strategize, and achieve an outcome by the end of the semester. Students’ learning is supported with lecture/discussion, readings, reflection papers, and skill workshops. Courses have been housed in a variety of disciplines, including sociology, anthropology, political science, social work, public administration, and theology.

For more information go to http://leadingchangenetwork.org/teaching/