The Humanities Institute at the University of Texas at Austin offers funding for non-profit staff members to take a “paid time-out” to research an issue or question of value to their work.
Three individuals will receive grants of $5000, be paired with UT Austin faculty who will guide them in their research, receive full access to [...]
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The Project on Civic Reflection is hosting a scholarly examination of the meaning and value of reflective discourse. In October, they will bring together 15 scholar-practitioners to examine the nature and significance of reflective discourse in a democracy, with special attention to emerging models that use the arts and humanities to provoke reflection.
As one of [...]
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During our training session at UHD, several participants suggested additional resources and web sites of interest to our moderators. Here’s a smattering:
National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation: Be sure to check out the National Conference scheduled for Austin October 3-5.
International Association of Facilitators
Fielding Graduate University Dialogue, Deliberation and Public Engagement Certification
Institute for Cultural Affairs
National Issues [...]
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[This was posted from the Kettering Foundation meeting on September 20-21, 2007 with 12 sites working on the project, "Too Many Children Left Behind". For more information about the project visit the Project Home Page.]
We will be using the document published by West Virginia Center for Civic Life, “Capturing Public Thinking: Developing Authentic Reports on [...]
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Today I received notice from Chan-Gon Kim, Vice Mayor of Guro District in Seoul, South Korea and PhD from Rutgers on e-democracy that he had read my posting about his work in e-democracy. We exchanged a couple of e-mails and he sent me his power point presentation and his dissertation from Rutgers. (Pretty cool when [...]
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In our virtual workshop tonight, Patty Dineen asked this question:
What would you say in the main purpose of a report?
What would make a report useful for: policymmakers, other members of the public, members of the media?
What would be the very best thin that could happen as a resut of a report about deliberative forums?
How should [...]
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The Harvard Family Research Project publishes The Evaluation Exchange, a periodical on emerging strategies in evaluation. The Spring 2007 issue (volume XIII Number 1) is the first of several issues they will publish covering “Hard to Measure” evaluations. Their first issue dealing with evaluating advocacy efforts has several ideas relevant to evaluating public engagement in [...]
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