Are you a faculty or staff member interested in incorporating social action campaigns into your course or co-curricular workshop series? Join us for the Summer 2023 Institute on Teaching Social Action from June 6-8.
This three-day virtual institute is designed to introduce you to an experiential learning approach for incorporating social action campaigns into your semester-long course or co-curricular workshop series. Through this transformative experiential learning model, your students will develop and launch a social action campaign of their choosing during the semester the course is taught.
Our long-term goal is to mainstream this model for teaching active democracy. We believe that the world needs more citizens who have developed their knowledge and skills in bringing about positive change through real-world experience.
Application
There is no cost to join the Summer ‘23 Institute on Teaching Social Action. However, we want to restrict participation in the institute to those faculty, staff or students who are committed to implementing this experiential social action course model. Please note that preparing and supporting students to launch their social action campaigns generally takes at least half of the course content and assignments.
To apply, click here.
Application Deadline: May 15, 2023
During the three-day institute, participants will draft a syllabus and develop a teaching and a plan for supporting student policy-change campaigns which are launched mid-semester. The institute sessions will be led by Dr. Scott Myers-Lipton, Professor of Sociology at San Jose State University, with support from Bobby Hackett, President of the Bonner Foundation.
We will use a flipped classroom model, where participants will be asked to prepare for live webinar sessions by reading textbooks and watching a series of short video presentations. Participants will work with a syllabus template which includes guiding questions.
If you have specific questions about the model or our webinar series, please contact Dr. Scott Myers-Lipton, Sociology professor at San Jose State University, who will be facilitating the webinar series.
Looking forward to hearing from many of you,
Scott Myers-Lipton, Ph.D. Professor, Sociology San José State University (SJSU is on Muwekma Ohlone territory)
Bobby Hackett President Bonner Foundation
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The Corella & Bertram F. Bonner Foundation
10 Mercer Street • Princeton, NJ 08540
609.924.6663 office • www.bonner.org
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