...Change Agent Abilities Required to Help Create a Sustainable Future © ACPA – College Student Educators International (http://www.myacpa.org/) in collaboration with the U.S. Partnership for Education for Sustainable Development (www.uspartnership.org ) May be reproduced for educational purposes with credit given In order to be a successful sustainability change agent, an individual must have the following: 1. Knowledge of the environmental, economic, and social issues related to sustainability (understanding); 2. A value system and self-concept to support and under gird the actions of a change agent (motivation); and 3. Change agent abilities (skills). Change Agent Abilities: The following is a listing of change agent abilities compiled from numerous sources. For ease of use, these sources have all been acknowledged at the end of this document. Change agents are: • Resilient • Optimistic • Tenacious • Committed • Passionate • Patient • Emotionally intelligent • Assertive • Persuasive • Empathetic • Authentic • Ethical • Self-Aware • Competent • Curious They can: • Communicate ideas clearly, concisely, and precisely both orally and in writing • Listen to others and incorporate their ideas and perspectives • Accommodate individual differences (cultural, socioeconomic, global, etc.) in your decisions and actions and be able to negotiate across these differences...
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...reason for all of these worst destructions of humanity. And I do believe that it is also everyone that can help in changing and molding the world to become a better place to live in for the future generations. I, Jhon Kenneth Alejandre, know that this world could be the place for the youth of today. We can all gather up and be one as we continue to prove the importance of youth to this world and as we develop our ways of youth empowerment. Through youth empowerment or the structural process, young ones like me, regardless of social status, will gain the ability; authority and agency that could help us make decisions for our own lives. This would not only improve our youth of today, but would also be the key to intergenerational equity, civic engagement and democracy building. Youth is a big influence to the lives of many. The young people are the valuables of this world. We are the builders, the changers. Just like what our National Hero Dr. Jose Rizal said, “Ang kabataan ang pag-asa ng bayan.” It is us, the youth that were entrusted by our ancestors to give a better and improved life to the next generations. We would be the gateway for improvement. Let us help each other in creating a productive society for the world. If we are not going to act right now, who will? No one can take the place of the youth in this world. We are living not only for our own sake but also for the sake of many. Let us not deny it any longer, most of us strives hard in constructing our own self-concepts...
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...Civic Engagement can be defined as the participation of an individual or group in matters of public concern. It means contributing knowledge, values or skills to promote the quality of life in a certain community. Individuals who are civic-minded consider themselves as a member of a social fabric who are capable of rendering active participation and making a positive change. Meanwhile, Service Learning means using community engagement as a tool for learning. Service could be rendered in the form of projects or initiatives with and for the community. Simply put, service learning means integrating learning and community activities. Civic Engagement and Service are often used interchangeably. Through they are closely connected, they differ in...
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...Civic-based approaches to education grant students the chance to take away persuasive, informative, and debate communication skills and apply them to the challenges facing civic life. When elected officials make a speech or comment about our current state of education, they do not encourage students to read Plato, Descartes, or even the Federalist Papers, instead our government is encouraging students to become increasingly experienced in math and computers and other STEM programs, or else foreign countries will steal all of our jobs and advance in front of America when it comes to education. Yet in reality, these foreign countries will steal nothing from the United States if they do not entertain lively and democratic institutions, like American’s...
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...Describe your work experience with equity and social justice principles and practices in marginalized communities and populations. I have extensive work and volunteer experience with equity and social justice principles and practices in marginalized communities and populations. As an Asian American woman, resident and community member of the Chinatown-International District, I have dedicated most of my current and past spare time to organizations such as the Japanese American Citizens League, Seattle Chapter; Nisei Veterans Committee, Puget Sound Alliance for Retiree Action, International Examiner, Social Justice Fund, and other organizations. In my professional experience, I have experience working with and supporting large-scale conferences and initiatives. A central part of my professional experience has been dedicated to addressing race and social justice as aides to former...
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...They do not only guide students through the process of finding internships, but also through service learning, civic engagement, and undergraduate research. During the undergrad research program, students are provided with the necessary support and activities to pursue their interest in research projects. They are informed about the available grants (One World One Water (OWOW)) for a successful project, deadlines, undergrad research conferences (Important dates, why they should be present, and the importance of participating), and student...
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...viewed as being gendered organizations. For this assignment, I selected a female community college president. The experiences that I had with the community college president are from several encounters that we have had overtime. The nature of her job and the recent notice of the realignment process of the institution made it difficult to shadow her for one complete day. For this project, I decided to focus on the, her leadership style, perspective of her relationship with governing board and some of her experiences as a...
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...WHAT IS A GLOBAL CITIZEN AND HOW CAN OUR SYSTEMS OF EDUCATION CREATE GLOBAL CITIZENS? Title of Essay: Unlocking the civic sense of young minds Full Name: Karthik Shankar Date of Birth: 26 July 1989 Current Occupation: Student Course: Journalism and Mass Communication University: SRM University, Chennai Email Address: karthik.psshankar@gmail.com Country: India UNLOCKING THE CIVIC SENSE OF YOUNG MINDS Karthik Shankar Patrick Geddes, the Scottish city planner said “Think globally, act locally”. That is a very apt statement with regards to the philosophy of global citizenship. Today with globalization, there is a deeper understanding that the daunting challenges of poverty eradication, sustainable development and religious extremism, among...
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...Civics Lab puts elementary and middle school students in virtual control of decision-making in their communities to encourage civic participation, critical thinking, and sense of place. In Civics Lab, players will assume positions of power in the community from an urban, suburban or rural perspective and explore how decisions-based on social need and demand, proper planning (as defined by our civic experts), political pressure, and most importantly, their imaginations-might impact the community. Through manipulation of real mapping information and current data sets, students navigate social and political pressures to explore the cause and effect of civic investment and public policy as they attempt to create a sustainable future for their region. The Proposed Civic Innovation Lab is a path-breaking model that will provide a common ground for Civil Conversation among citizens and decision makers and a highly flexible, interactive, and technology-rich space that will bring people together to seek innovative approaches to our challenges. The Civic Engagement/Innovation centre will be created by transforming existing space at the School from a rarely visited old mess into an innovative, interactive facility that will allow for small-group interaction as well as larger-group deliberations. This will be a unique technology rich space where people will come together to seek solutions of public challenges through: 1) Innovative processes that support emergent, fact -based solutions,...
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...Amy Heimbecher Social Responsibility Task 1 June 3, 2014 Social Responsibility Strategy Report Overview Radharani Yoga Sanctuary (RYS) is a brand-new, small business located in Portland, OR. Currently, the company has start up funding, is looking for a storefront and plans to open its doors within the next 6 months. RYS would like to offer the community yoga classes, meditation sessions, dance classes, community events, workshops, Yoga Teacher trainings, and socially responsible retail. Objectives The main business objective in opening the studio, is to maintain and run the studio based on yogic principles, while bringing in a profit. Living in harmony with self, community, and the planet is at the core of these principles. While the exchange of money for the ancient practice of yoga is relatively a new concept, in this modern day and age the majority of teachers need to make a living and require payment for their service. This correlates to the socially responsible business principle of “Triple Bottom Line”. Triple Bottom Line refers to focusing on three factors in business: people, planet, and profit. Leadership Considerations (People) Under the “People” category there are 2 main groups : Leadership and community. Leadership includes the individuals running the studio and community includes every person or organization that has a relationship with the studio. The owner of RYS is currently looking for a studio manager. Within the job profile, the owner...
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...| Young Public Leaders Are Usually Less Effective Because They Have So Little Experience | | | Kijafa Parker | PAD 515 – Leadership and Conflict ResolutionDr. Michael PopejoyWinter 2012 | 1/22/2012 | Abstract From the foundation of civilization to the formulation of nations and countries from military conquest or marital alliances; to revolutions and civil rights marches to peaceful protest and occupy movements, many leaders have been anointed, appointed, ascended to, declared or elected to positions of leadership. Whether wise or foolish, old or young, experienced or not, the innate tendency by people to judge the effectiveness of the leader and his ability to lead is either celebrated, questioned, tested, scrutinized and critiqued. In the current age of 24 hour news cycles, which often highlights the troubles of young leaders, there is an air of doubt and dismissal as to the ability of “Generation X and Y”, or those considered young to successfully lead, organize and have a following that is progressive enough to resolve problems. Tradition The basis for questioning the effectiveness of a young public leader can be attributed to physical traits such as appearance, height, weight as evidenced in 1 Samuel 9: 1 and 2 which states, “a Benjamite, a mighty man of power. And he had a son, whose name was Saul, a choice young man, and a goodly: and there was not among the children of Israel a goodlier person than he: from his shoulders and upward he was higher...
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...engaging the business community, civic leaders, elected officials and citizens in a public private partnership to create a more vibrant, livable, healthy and sustainable Bessemer. THE PURPOSE NH020 proposes to work with appropriate entities of the City of Bessemer to update the city’s long-range plans for growth and revitalization and to implementation. Serving as the city’s resource for revitalization and redevelopment initiatives, NH020 will: • Help gain wide-spread support for revitalization efforts from both the public and private sectors; • Facilitate outreach programs to the citizens to gather their ideas about the city they want to live in; • Bring business, industry and government leaders together to identify opportunities for market growth; • Identify opportunities that can stimulate new investments in downtown properties; • Identify strategies for re-energizing neighborhood business districts; • Find new economic uses for traditional main street buildings; • Help develop new financial incentives and capital for building rehabilitation and business development and to maximize existing financial resources; • Help with the growth and development of existing businesses in the city of Bessemer. THE PLAN Engaging strategic partnerships, NH020 will develop programs in these areas. • Education – to enhance education and enrichment opportunities for high school students by focusing on mentoring, tutoring, and hands-on experiences; after school programs and...
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...of others.” Those are the acts of a Citizen in a community.” Now days we don’t go into the true meaning of what is means to be a Citizen in our communities. How many times do we have a conversation with our neighbors? How much time do we actual spend in our respective communities? For parents, do you know your children’s communities at school? What I’m getting to here is how much do we really spend connecting and building relationships within our communities? Like mentioned in Block and McKnight, we have turned into this world of consumers, the power that comes from within the community is diminishing because people are turning to products and services. Throughout this paper I’ll go into some essential elements that build and promote civic engagement. “Citizens create satisfaction by recognizing their individual capacities and skills. We begin to see that the neighborhood is a treasure chest” (Block & McKnight 2010). Citizens find gifts within a community, when we do this we start to realize the potential that lies within out communities. This ties directly with some main points in The Arts and Social Capital article we also read. “Whether visual, musical, dramatic, or literary, the arts allow us to “create together” and discover shared understanding” (The Arts and Social Capital 2000). Whether it is in different kinds of form, everyone has some sort of art they connect to, and realizing this connecting is realizing gifts in the community. Many times we walk passed a monument...
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...Joseph Carr POL 205 Lanahan Essay #3 Low voter turnout is a direct danger to our democratic practices and the result of the elite pushing their special interests over the interests of the common man. Essay numbers sixty-six through seventy all deal with voting issues, showing the expanding flaws of American democracy in our modern world. First discussing the Exhibition season and the importance of the New Hampshire primary in grass roots politics, Dante Scala in Stormy Weather asserts that the first presidential primaries either give or take away a candidate’s momentum with the influence of the media fishbowl. Reading number sixty-seven No Place for Amateurs by Dennis Johnson focuses on the effect of political consultants on a candidate’s campaign for election. Discussing negative campaigning, reading sixty-eight Going Dirty by David Mark gives detail on political marketing, 527 groups and the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform of 2002. Reading number sixty-nine Why we vote by David Campbell highlights the different reasons why people vote. Finally, reading number seventy How Barack Obama Won by Chuck Todd and Sheldon Gawiser discusses the landmarks leading up to the 2008 election and the possibility of an alignment of the democrats. In Stormy Weather by Dante Scala the author describes the first stage of the election process as the exhibition season and the second stage as the media fishbowl. Scala describes the exhibition season as “the period that extends from the...
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...This is nothing new since a lot of the great works of American history like “Huckleberry Finn” and “The Color Purple” took on the somewhat of a unique experience that many Americans have regarding race. One of things that is a different about ‘The Color of Water” is that the character of Ruth espouses to her children the idea that we build a society that is color blind. Even the title of the work hints at this view since water has no color, thus the color of water is clear. Even though this idea of a colorless society sounds great it is utopian and just not possible. It is a much better idea that if we are going to tackle the issue of race in this country, that we do not pretend that we can’t see differences amongst various ethnicities. The real goal should be that we recognize these differences and celebrate them. To understand why Ruth would say to advocate something like a color blind society it is important to understand who Ruth is. The character of Ruth, even though she was a real person, could be looked upon as being a symbol for the American experience. The classic American dream is one in which hard working immigrants move to the US, the land of opportunity, and make it big through hard work and determination. The American experience is different from the American Dream in that it is the realistic events and experience that people have. The idea that the streets in the US are paved with gold and that all one has to do is make it here to succeed is a fairy tale, and you...
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