August John Hoffman, Norma Espinosa Parker, Eduardo Sanchez

Unity through Community Service Activities

Strategies to Bridge Ethnic and Cultural Divides

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 365g
• ISBN-13: 9780786441082
• ISBN-10: 0786441089
• Artikelnr.: 25613100

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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