Teaching and Learning About Communities: Principles and Practices
Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Perspectives on the Meaning of Community -- Individualism and Community: The American Perspective -- Place and People -- Ecosystems as Communities -- Community, Civic Engagement, and Democracy -- Bonding and Bridging Communities -- Inequality, Class, and Community -- Race, Ethnicity, Diversity, and Community -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 3: Assets of and Challenges to Communities -- Housing -- Inclusive and Affordable Housing -- Home Ownership, Rental Housing, and Community -- Community Infrastructure -- Food and Health -- Safety -- Jobs and Financial Security -- Families and Community -- Education -- Conclusion: Community as an Asset -- Notes -- Chapter 4: Strategies and Agents of Community Well-Being -- Strategies -- Service and Volunteerism -- Advocacy -- Community Development and Social Enterprise -- Community Organizing -- Politics -- Research and Education -- Deliberation and Participatory Democracy -- Agents -- Government -- The For-Profit and Non-Profit Sectors -- Leadership -- Media -- Conclusion: Applying Principles to Practice -- Notes -- Chapter 5: Case Studies in Community -- Moving Out, Moving In, Building Up: Moving to Opportunity, Hope VI, and Promise Neighborhoods -- Responses to Homelessness -- Health, Safety, and Individual Behavior -- Community, Neighborhood Schools, and School Choice -- Vouchers for Low-Income Families -- Charter Schools -- Magnet Schools and Gifted and Talented Programs -- Vocational Schools and Apprenticeships -- Community Schools -- Controlled Choice -- What No School Can Do -- Collective Impact: Lessons from Milwaukee -- Twin Cities Light Rail: Inclusion -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 6: Learning Through Reflective Exercises and Community Experience -- Community Study -- Learning About Community Through Service