Summer 2011 Community Works Journal

Posted by on June 13, 2011

The new Summer 2011 digital edition of Community Works Journal is now available online. The latest edition features a wide range of articles and essays exploring educational connections to place, service, and sustainable communities. We thank our many contributing educators who continue to generously share their work and experience. Readers will find the new edition available at http://www.communityworksjournal.org/.

SUMMER EDITION 2011 • Community Works Journal
A sampling of articles and essays from the new online edition include:

EVENTS—PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Summer Opportunities and More
Community Works Institute (CWI) is pleased to announce a series of unique professional development events for 2011. Among the events being offered are CWI’s Summer EAST and WEST Institutes on Service-Learning and our partner Shelburne Farm’s Education for Sustainability Institute. All events are appropriate for K-16 and community educators. Join with educators from around the world for a powerful week of exploration, learning , and practical application.

FEATURED ARTICLE
Taking a Real Road into the Community
BY ANNEMARIE FRANCZYK, Ed.D.
It can be an uncomfortable leap for them to consider the bigger issues in the world around them. But if they become professional journalists, it’s that world around them in which they will be working. There’s no time like school time to get budding journalists to think beyond their realm and provide a valuable service to others.

FEATURED ARTICLE
A Nursing Program Comes Together with Community Supported Agriculture
By NANCY LaPLANTE PhD, RN
It comes as little surprise then that I was pleased many years ago to discover a community farm on the grounds of my university. From the time I discovered this hidden gem, I wanted to get involved in some way; little did I know then that my involvement would come in the form of an undergraduate research course.

FEATURED ESSAY
The Precarious Teen Years and the Honor of Becoming a Blessing
By MARITA PRANDONI
Being invited into my daughter’s middle school was less invasive than actively getting into her mix. But the mornings I was there, she would keenly avoid being seen with me, and would rush past the math classroom on her way to her next class. Without imposing on her, I got to see firsthand how teachers of teens invest hope and compassion in their students, with complete understanding of their tumultuous state.

FEATURED ARTICLE
Kids Making Change On Salt Spring Island
By JANINE FERNANDES-HAYDEN, MA, BSc
Welcome to Salt Spring Island, Canada, one of the Gulf Islands in the Strait of Georgia between mainland British Columbia and Vancouver Island. As an educator, I knew that, in developing this campaign, success was dependent on a design that would not be viewed as burdensome, or as a time-consuming add-on to the curriculum. It needed to complement the on-going work of administrators and teachers. Alignment was key.
ESSAY—Of PLACE AND EDUCATION
Everyone Ought to Have a Ditch
By DAVID SOBEL
I spend a lot of time these days talking with teachers, foundation directors, environmental educators, and evaluators about how to most effectively shape environmental stewardship behavior. The $64,000 question is—what’s the most effective way to educate children who will grow up to behave in environmentally responsible ways? What kinds of learning, or what kinds of experience will most likely shape young adults who want to protect the environment.

FEATURED ARTICLE
The Roots of Activism
By CHELSEA ROOD-EMMICK, MSW, LSW
We had a student who in his interview told us, to prove he was experienced with travel, that he had been to Iowa for two weeks. Two months later, that student who had been elaborating on how difficult it had been to be in Iowa was in a shanty town in Mexico beating a poisonous snake to death with a hoe. As an instructor, this was about pulling back the veil for our students, many of whom had never traveled or thought about the international community.