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Acting civically : from urban neighborhoods to higher education
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Acting civically : from urban neighborhoods to higher education

Author: Susan A Ostrander; Kent E Portney
Publisher: Medford, Mass. : Tufts University Press ; Hanover : University Press of New England, ©2007.
Series: Civil society.
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Acting civically.
Medford, Mass. : Tufts University Press ; Hanover : University Press of New England, c2007
(OCoLC)608130501
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Susan A Ostrander; Kent E Portney
ISBN: 9781584656609 1584656603 9781584656616 1584656611
OCLC Number: 145732869
Description: xii, 208 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents: Introduction: Key issues in civic engagement research today / Susan A. Ostrander, Kent E. Portney --
Neighborhoods, neighborhood associations, and social capital / Kent E. Portney, Jeffrey M. Berry --
Grassroots organizing in Boston Chinatown : a comparison with ADC-style organizing / Lydia Lowe, Doug Brugge --
Building power in minority neighborhoods : Boston University Medical Center's bio-safety level four laboratory / Julian Agyeman, Heather Ross --
Could civic engagement reproduce political inequality? / Sarah Sobieraj, Deborah White --
Consumer-sponsored health care plans : early twentieth-century public participation in U.S. health care / Charlene A. Galarneau --
Teacher education as civic engagement : building bridges and community through professional development schools / Linda V. Beardsley --
Race matters in civic engagement work / Jean Y. Wu --
Three major foundations and the decline in funding for higher education civic engagement, 1995 to 2005 / Susan A. Ostrander.
Series Title: Civil society.
Responsibility: Susan A. Ostrander and Kent E. Portney, editors.
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