Reading
Wood, R. L., Fulton, B., & Partridge, K. (2012). Building bridges, building power: Developments in institution-based community organizing. Nassau, NY.
Note that the authors use the term “institution” to refer to organizations; in organizational theory we use “institution” to mean something different (a preview of this summer’s learning)
Questions
- What is the purpose of this report?
- Compare the tactics of institution-based community organizing (p. 20) with the characteristics of social movements that we read about previously.
- Is it possible to organize a movement? Why or why not or why maybe?
Reading
Magee, M. P. (2019). A little opposition is a good thing and other lessons from the science of advocacy. Washington, DC: Advocacy Labs. Retrieved from advocacylabs.org.
Read the Preface, then choose four of the 17 lessons and read the associated text in detail. Skim the rest of the lessons.
- What do you think of the way the report is organized; i.e., “What the experts say … What the research says”?
- Choose one of the lessons and apply it so an issue related to education. Write a couple of paragraphs on “What the experts say … What the research says.”
Number Seven