[alt-media-res] Fwd: [activistscholarship] New Study on Activist Training in Academia

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From: Steve Chase <steve_chase at verizon.net>
Date: 05-Oct-2006 01:06
Subject: [activistscholarship] New Study on Activist Training in Academia
To: activistscholarship at lists.riseup.net

NEW STUDY ON ACTIVIST TRAINING IN ACADEMIA

Recently Eli Pariser, the Executive Director of MoveOn.Org, made the
following comment about Antioch University's five-year-old
Environmental Advocacy and Organizing Program:

"Lots of people care about the future of our country, but not all of
them are as active or effective as they could be. There are just too
few institutions that help inspire, train, and nurture progressive
activists. That's why I'm so excited about Antioch University New
England's Environmental Advocacy and Organizing Program. It's a
graduate program that offers in-depth activist training and even
connects its graduates into an ongoing support network. I encourage
everyone seeking to work as a public interest advocate or a grassroots
organizer to check out Antioch's advocacy and organizing program."

I am glad Eli gets what we are trying to accomplish--and I am also
happy to report that we are increasingly fielding calls from innovative
educators who are considering setting up similar activist training
programs at their own schools.

Well, I now have an in-depth resource to offer such educators—a
recently completed thesis entitled Activist Training in the Academy:
Developing A Master's Program In Environmental Advocacy and Organizing.
This curriculum action research report offers readers two key things.
First, it provides a discussion of the key theoretical issues facing
educators who might want to create activist training programs at their
own colleges and universities. This section describes my own journey as
an educator in higher education; includes a history of several activist
training programs inside and outside of academia; offers a detailed
look at what advocates and organizers most need to know, and then looks
at what are the most appropriate educational techniques for academic
training programs geared to activists.

In the second section, Activist Training in the Academy offers a
detailed case study of the development process and curriculum design of
the master's program in Environmental Advocacy and Organizing I have
directed since 2002 at Antioch University's Keene, New Hampshire
campus. This section includes the original proposal for the program, a
report on the faculty's initial response, the key questions they needed
answered before agreeing to launch the new program, and an outline of
the basic curriculum design we developed for the Environmental Advocacy
and Organizing Program.

This new study on activist training in academia is available for online
at:
http://www.antiochne.edu/directory/page.cfm?
page_id=230&id=1800014802&Type=Page.
It is also available at cost in hard copy. For more information contact:

Steve Chase
Director, Environmental Advocacy and Organizing Program
Department of Environmental Studies @ Antioch University New England
40 Avon Street, Keene, NH 03431
Steven_Chase at antiochne.edu; 603-357-2336 (office); 603-357-0718 (fax)

* EAOP's Main Website: http://www.antiochne.edu/es/eao/
* EAOP's "Well-Trained Activist" Blog: http://eaop-blog.blogspot.com
* EAOP's Online Activist Bookstore:
http://www.antiochne.edu/es/eao/bookstore.cfm
(7.5% of the purchase price is donated to the EAOP Scholarship Fund at
no extra cost to you)




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"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad
to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones
who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like
fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the
stars..."  ;-) Jack Kerouac

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