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Title: Teaching College Students Communication Strategies for Effective Social Justice Advocacy

Teaching College Students Communication Strategies for Effective Social Justice Advocacy

by Robert J. Nash (Author) Richard Greggory Johnson III (Author) Michele C. Murray (Author)
©2012 Textbook XX, 186 Pages
Education
Series: Black Studies and Critical Thinking, Volume 23

Summary

This book has received the AESA (American Educational Studies Association) Critics Choice Award 2013.
The book deals concretely with the most effective ways for educators to be social justice advocates, with questions about what it means to be a social justice advocate, and with the best communication strategies to advocate for a particular social justice view that might start and sustain an open dialogue. The book presents a number of practical approaches to dialoguing about social justice in formal educational settings. It is well suited for college students, graduate students, faculty and higher education administrators, politicians, and anyone interested in having a civil discourse addressing social justice.

Details

Pages
XX, 186
Publication Year
2012
ISBN (Hardcover)
9781433114373
ISBN (Softcover)
9781433114366
Language
English
Keywords
dialogue practical approaches view
Published
New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, Wien, 2012. XX, 186 pp.
Product Safety
Peter Lang Group AG

Biographical notes

Robert J. Nash (Author) Richard Greggory Johnson III (Author) Michele C. Murray (Author)

Robert J. Nash, Ed. D., is a professor in the College of Education and Social Services at the University of Vermont. He has thaught fourty-four years at the University of Vermont and is Director of the Masters Program in Interdisciplinary Studies. Dr. Nash is a Georgetown University Alumnus. Richard Greggory Johnson III, Phi Beta Kappa, is an associate professor and director of the MPA and BPA programs at the University of San Francisco. Dr. Johnson has published five books, including A Twenty-First Century Approach to Teaching Social Justice: Educating for Both Advocacy and Action (Peter Lang, 2009). He has also published many peer-reviewed journal articles. Dr. Johnson is a Georgetown University Alumnus. Michele C. Murray, PhD, serves Seattle University as Associate Vice President for Student Development. With Robert Nash, she has co-authored Helping College Students Find Purpose: The Campus Guide to Meaning Making, and she is the author/founder of Cotton Tree Herald (cottontreeherald.com), a blog about finding meaning in the everyday.

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