What Is Community Organizing?

Schutz, Aaron; Sandy, Marie G.

doi:10.1057/9780230118539_2

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“…Collective systemic agency has a strong civic and political orientation, as signaled by recent scholarship about community youth organizing, which generally refers to associations of mixed-age young people who work together to solve a public problem and gain political power (Conner, 2011;Schutz & Sandy, 2011;Warren, Mira, & Nikundiwe, 2008). Collective systemic agency includes: cognitive elements, such as constructing shared goals, affective elements, such as a sense of membership in the group and accountability to others in the group, and social action elements, such as coordinating different roles and expertise and managing internal conflict or external adversity.…”

Section: Collective Systemic Agencymentioning

confidence: 99%

How Positioning Shapes Opportunities for Student Agency in Schools

York

Kirshner

2015

Teachers College Record: The Voice of Scholarship in Education

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This chapter shows how student positioning by adults shapes opportunities for students to develop collective systemic agency. Collective systemic agency refers to the capacity to organize others, participate in discussions, develop a systemic analysis, and take action in complex institutions, such as schools. This repertoire can be cultivated by encouraging students to ask critical questions about their educational experiences and to uncover evidence about how policy affects people. In observing this process taking place in schools, we notice that the ways adults positioned students, in part through talk, greatly impacted learning opportunities. To warrant our claims, we draw on data from Critical Civic Inquiry (CCI), a university–school partnership in which teachers guide students through an action research cycle. Our analysis looks at the ways in which school and classroom level positioning of students impacts student experiences and openings for action. Both focal classrooms make space for civic learning, but the chances to express agency are limited in some cases. We argue that these learning opportunities are strengthened when education professionals look beyond curricular experiences and attend to how students are positioned through discourse in the broader context of the school.

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Section: Collective Systemic Agencymentioning

confidence: 99%

How Positioning Shapes Opportunities for Student Agency in Schools

York

Kirshner

2015

Teachers College Record: The Voice of Scholarship in Education

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“…This approach lends the book its theoretical soundness and practical applicability for several fields—for instance, those engaged in community organizing can draw upon this book and the model it proposes in promoting collective action toward social change and justice. This work can be used to inform the development of durable institutions that work toward giving a voice to the oppressed within societies that are newly emerging out of dictatorships (Schutz & Sandy, 2011).…”

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The psychology of dictatorship edited by Fathali M Moghaddam

Nair¹

2014

Culture & Psychology

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“…Community organizing refers to efforts to unite a group of people around a common vision for social and political change and to empower them to press for these changes. According to Schutz and Sandy (2011), the overarching goal of community organizing is to “ alter the relations of power between the groups who have traditionally controlled our society and the residents of marginalized communities” (p. 12). Recent research on community organizing for school reform has documented the impressive victories and important contributions of these groups.…”

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“Very Powerful Voices”

2012

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Nationally, youth organizing groups have been gaining traction in their push for education reform; however, little research has considered how policymakers view their efforts. This study examines how 30 civic leaders in one under-resourced urban school district perceive the influence of a youth organizing group on educational policy decision making over a 15 year period. Results indicate that the group is widely recognized for having accomplished significant policy changes at school and district levels, including influencing the policy process in four key ways: insisting on accountability, elevating the role of student voice, shaping the agenda, and asserting themselves as powerful political actors.

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What Is Community Organizing?

Cited by 10 publications

References 2 publications

How Positioning Shapes Opportunities for Student Agency in Schools

How Positioning Shapes Opportunities for Student Agency in Schools

The psychology of dictatorship edited by Fathali M Moghaddam

“Very Powerful Voices”

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