Harry Boyte, from the University of Minnesota, shared with us the history of the Obama campaign phrase, “we are the ones we have been waiting for.” In a column for the Minneapolis Star and Tribune, he took Maureen Dowd to task for suggesting Maria Shriver was the source of the quote. Instead, Boyte recalls the [...]
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“We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For”
Posted in Dayton, Education, civic engagement, narrative, oral history, scholarship, tagged civic engagement, civil rights, democratic citizenship, Harry Boyte, June Jordan, Kettering Foundation, Obama, peer-review, scholarship of service, service learning on February 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Deliberative Democracy and Higher Education
Posted in Education, civic engagement, history, scholarship, tagged civic engagement, democratic citizenship, Harry Boyte, Kettering Foundation on February 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In preparation for the plenary session, the Kettering Foundation sent the following texts along with the framing statement and the David Mathews’ essay discussed earlier:
Lee Benson, Ira Harkavy and John Puckett, Dewey’s Dream: Universities and Democracies in an Age of Education Reform (Temple University Press, 2007)–this publication addresses a theme that would be repeated [...]
Civic Learning
Posted in Cityfolk, Education, civic engagement, history, narrative, oral history, tagged "Uprising of '34", civic engagement, civic learning, Judith Helfand, Kettering Foundation, NERCHE on February 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The film “Uprising of ‘34” tells the story of the General Strike that impacted textile mills and mill towns across the American South. Defiant mill workers confronted the control of mill owners. The Uprising brings into relief relationships of class, race, gender, power, and autonomy. The filmmakers entered communities and stirred up the painful [...]
