Unity through Community Service Activities
Strategies to Bridge Ethnic and Cultural Divides
Published on 12. February 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
218 pages
978-0-7864-4108-2 (ISBN)
Description
Community service work is an ideal way not only to help define how young people deal with each other but actually to facilitate these interactions and help them achieve meaning in their lives. This book addresses community service ways to overcome divisions, foster multicultural group development, and reduce ethnocentrism and ethnic conflict.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Jefferson, NC
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Interest Age: From 18 years
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
tables, appendices, bibliography, index
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
365 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7864-4108-2 (9780786441082)
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Persons
August John Hoffman is a professor of psychology at California State University Northridge and El Camino College-Compton Center. His research interests include community service work and student mentoring as effective methods to reduce ethnic conflict and improve self-efficacy among community college students. Born in Havana, the late Norma Espinosa Parker was a developer of the CCC Cultural and Fine Arts Academy, whose more than 300 students from different backgrounds, cultures, and races were enrolled in a summer and after school music program. Eduardo Sanchez is a psychology student at California State University Northridge. He collaborates with Hoffman on various research projects involving community relations. His research interests include interracial interaction through community service work. Julie Wallach is a graduate of California State University Northridge. She has co-authored more than a dozen articles with Hoffman.
Content
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Community Service Work in Compton College: Bringing People Together via Gardening Work
2. Group Work as a Necessary Factor of Human Evolution: Work Cooperatively Together or Perish
3. The Establishment of Roles within the Group
4. The Dynamic Relationship between Collaborative Learning and Community Service Work: Working Together for a Common Purpose
5. The Relationship between Community Service Learning and Interdependency: Our "External" Differences
Help Us to Realize Our "Internal" Similarities
6. Community Service Work: Improving Communication and Reducing Student Ethnocentrism
7. Teaching Principles of Group Development vs. Individual Gain
8. Reducing Prejudice and Discrimination via Interdependency
9. Keeping It Real: The Influence of Technology on the Quality of Interpersonal and Group Relationships
10. The Paradox of Maintaining Ethnic and Cultural Identity and Assimilating in the Dominant Group
11. Reducing Hate Crimes via Community Service Work in Multiethnic Student Populations
12. The Critical Periods for Incorporating Community Service Work Principles
Appendix A Understanding Immigration Reform and Ethnocentrism from the Cuban Perspective (by Dr. Norma Espinosa Parker)
Appendix B Directly from the People: How Community Service Work Has Changed the Lives of Individuals within the Community
Bibliography
Index
Introduction
1. Community Service Work in Compton College: Bringing People Together via Gardening Work
2. Group Work as a Necessary Factor of Human Evolution: Work Cooperatively Together or Perish
3. The Establishment of Roles within the Group
4. The Dynamic Relationship between Collaborative Learning and Community Service Work: Working Together for a Common Purpose
5. The Relationship between Community Service Learning and Interdependency: Our "External" Differences
Help Us to Realize Our "Internal" Similarities
6. Community Service Work: Improving Communication and Reducing Student Ethnocentrism
7. Teaching Principles of Group Development vs. Individual Gain
8. Reducing Prejudice and Discrimination via Interdependency
9. Keeping It Real: The Influence of Technology on the Quality of Interpersonal and Group Relationships
10. The Paradox of Maintaining Ethnic and Cultural Identity and Assimilating in the Dominant Group
11. Reducing Hate Crimes via Community Service Work in Multiethnic Student Populations
12. The Critical Periods for Incorporating Community Service Work Principles
Appendix A Understanding Immigration Reform and Ethnocentrism from the Cuban Perspective (by Dr. Norma Espinosa Parker)
Appendix B Directly from the People: How Community Service Work Has Changed the Lives of Individuals within the Community
Bibliography
Index