scholarly journals Appreciative Organizing: Charting a Course for Community Engagement

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shelly A. Parini-Runge
Keyword(s):  
Community Engagement ◽  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Public Engagement ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Community Setting ◽  
Social Bonding ◽  
Higher Learning ◽  
Community Networks ◽  
Working Relationships ◽  
Institutional Goals

This article provides a brief overview of Appreciative Organizing (AO), a term coined by the author in her graduate work to describe the roles that dialogue, listening, storytelling, community networks, social bonding, and leadership play in designing and leading meaningful community engagement initiatives that result in transformative partnerships. It offers constructive steps and a real-life example of how AO was used to strengthen relationships between an institution of higher learning and the community it serves. AO posits that in order to strengthen America’s sense of community, public engagement practices must become more inclusive and innovative, and better networked. It illustrates how this community-centered method, grounded in the philosophical principles of partnership, appreciation, hope, and imagination, transformed an administration and built a culture of continuous engagement that helped the college meet and exceed its institutional goals. Further, through this example, the article’s larger objective is to share ways in which this method, when broadly applied, can be used to build trust and strengthen working relationships within a community setting.

A JOURNEY TO MEASURE STUDENT COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT BENEFITS: EVIDENCE FROM AUSTRALIA

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 16
Author(s):  
Ellen Chung ◽  
Hamish B Coates
Keyword(s):  
Community Engagement ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Factor Loading ◽  
Higher Learning ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
Student Community ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Learning ◽  
Final Questionnaire ◽  
Civic Skills ◽  
Career Skills

Community engagement is a phenomenon that has received increasing attention among institutions of higher learning in recent years, and students engaging with communities are generally seen as beneficial. Given this, surprisingly little is known about this form of engagement in Australian higher education, let alone methods to measure its benefits on students. This study discussed the development of the Student Community Engagement Benefits Questionnaire (SCEBS), a questionnaire that measures the perceptions of community engagement benefits among undergraduate students in Australia. The final questionnaire has 32 items allocated to four benefit scales: (1) Career skills, (2) Diversity skills, (3) Interpersonal skills, (4) Civic skills. Most benefit items had a factor loading of atleast 0.40 with its own scale. The results of the factor analysis revealed that the four scales accounted for 53% of the total variance. The alpha reliability coefficient for the four scales ranged from 0.79 to 0.91. Based on these findings, the Student Community Engagement Benefits Scale (SCEBS) is a valid and reliable instrument that can be used in the field of education. Undergraduate students also reported statistically significant changes in the four dimensions after participating in community engagement activities.

scholarly journals Does Brand Love Last Forever? : A Study on Turkey’s Lovemarks

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 76-85
Author(s):  
Ayben Ceyhan ◽  
Uğur Yozgat
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Customer Satisfaction ◽  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Brand Image ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Communication Strategy ◽  
Brand Trust ◽  
Emotional Intimacy ◽  
Brand Love ◽  
Innovative Products

Brand love has become an important concept in both the academic and business worlds. There are some studies in the literature conducted on consumers regarding the brand love, but no study focuses on brands that consumers are in love with. Therefore, to analyze how brand love is created and to identify the components of a sustainable brand love, we conducted a qualitative study on the brands that achieved the lovemark status several times in the survey conducted on the consumers in Turkey. We used the categories in the 2019 lovemark survey, a study conducted by Ipsos for MediaCat magazine every year, as the basis, and we evaluated brands that have been selected as lovemarks in their respective categories at least five times. Our study concluded that the brands created brand love through quality in product or service as well as diversity, customer satisfaction, brand trust, innovative products, sincerity, and emotional intimacy, being a solution-oriented brand, as demonstrated in other studies in the literature, and in addition, by creating social responsibility projects, and being accessible. These brands also made brand love sustainable through reliability, service, relevance, stand behind the promise, innovation, brand image, customer satisfaction, a sense of community, customer experience, emotional bond, trust, people-oriented communication strategy, real-life compatible products and services as well as creation of different experiences.

scholarly journals A Learning Journey through a Heart-Centered Book

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 95-100
Author(s):  
Wendy Allen ◽  
Lori Ryan
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Graduate Program ◽  
Collective Learning ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Early Childhood Leadership ◽  
Personal Stories ◽  
Learning Journey

As faculty for a graduate program in early childhood leadership, we co-designed a course on community-based action research around Patricia Wilson’s book, The Heart of Community Engagement: Practitioner Stories from Across the Globe. In this review we share how it mirrored our own deepening sense of community engagement practices, and how our students engaged with this unique text on their individual and collective learning journeys. We share highlights from the text that reinforced our sense of liberatory pedagogy.  Wilson’s  personal  stories, as well as the stories of community-engaged practitioners across the globe , invite all of us to create our own purpose and intentions for the evolving path of facilitating change within ourselves and with others.    

Sustained Engagement Experiences in Kinesiology: An Engaged Department Initiative

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 362-367
Author(s):  
Brian D. Clocksin ◽  
Margo B. Greicar
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
Real Life ◽  
High Impact ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Education ◽  
Active Engagement ◽  
Life Problems ◽  
The University ◽  
High Impact Practice

Community engagement is commonly imbedded in the ethos of institutions of higher education and has been identified as a High Impact Practice for student learning and retention. The Sustained Engagement Experiences in Kinesiology (SEEK) program at the University of La Verne is a curriculum-wide approach that moves students through four stages of community engagement: Respect, Participating with Effort, Self-Directions, and Leadership. The stages are developmentally sequenced across the curriculum and provide opportunities for learners to move from passive participants to active engagement scholars. The engagement experiences serve to enhance students’ abilities to transfer what they learn in the classroom to real-life problems, foster an asset-based approach to community engagement, and facilitate a transition from surface-to deep-learning.

scholarly journals COVID-19 community care in Israel-- A nationwide cohort study from a large health maintenance organization

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shirley Shapiro Ben David ◽  
Daniella Cohen ◽  
Rebekah Karplus ◽  
Angela Irony ◽  
Gili Ofer-Bialer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cohort Study ◽  
Severe Disease ◽  
Health Maintenance Organization ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Community Setting ◽  
Healthcare Personnel ◽  
Health Maintenance ◽  
Life Study ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Outpatient Settings

Introduction: Among the many medical challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic, management of the majority of COVID-19 patients in community outpatient settings rather than in hospital is crucial for the resource allocation of healthcare systems. This real-life study describes COVID-19 patients in three management settings: two outpatient settings and one inpatient. Methods: A retrospective database cohort study was conducted in a large Israeli Health Maintenance Organization. All laboratory-confirmed SARS-CoV-2 cases diagnosed 2/28/2020-6/20/2020, were included. Cases in the community setting were managed by physicians and other healthcare personnel through a nationwide remote monitoring center, using preliminary telehealth triage, 24/7 virtual care , all based on the individual patient’s clinical and social circumstances. Data were extracted from medical records. Outcome parameters included hospital admission, disease severity, need for respiratory support and mortality. Results: 5,525 cases tested positive. Seventy-seven cases who live in long- term facilities were excluded. 5448 cases, aged 36.36±20.31 (range 0-97 years) were enrolled. 88.7% were initially managed as outpatient either at home or in designated hotels, and 11.3% were hospitalized. 3.1% and 2.1% of the patients who were initially allocated for home or hotel stay, respectively, later required hospitalization. The main reason for hospitalization was dyspnea; twelve were diagnosed with severe disease. Fifty-six patients (1.3%) died, five (0.1%) of whom were initially allocated to the outpatient settings. Conclusions: Care for appropriately selected COVID-19 patients in the community provides a safe and effective option. This can contribute to reducing the hospitalization burden, with no evidence of increased morbidity or mortality.

scholarly journals PB2185 DARATUMUMAB MONOTHERAPY IN REAL LIFE COMMUNITY SETTING OF REFRACTORY MYELOMA PATIENTS: A RETROSPECTIVE UNICENTRIC STUDY

HemaSphere ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (S1) ◽  
pp. 980
Author(s):  
V. Del Fabro ◽  
G. Sapienza ◽  
M. S. PARISI ◽  
V. leotta ◽  
S. leotta ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Real Life ◽  
Community Setting

Challenges and Trends of TAPS Packages in Enhancing Engineering Education

2010 ◽  
pp. 158-166
Author(s):  
Manjit Singh Sidhu
Keyword(s):  
Deep Learning ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
Engineering Education ◽  
Computer Technology ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Higher Learning ◽  
Education Sector ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Learning Institutions

It can be envisaged that the use of multimedia computer technology as replacement, or supplement to, human educators in engineering education would become widespread in the future. Such technology can be employed to demonstrate and correlate real life application and theory thereby promoting deep learning. Interactive courseware for higher learning institutions may be extremely useful where trained human resources in the engineering education sector are limited. This Chapter discusses the current trends of incorporating new technologies with TAPS packages in the teaching of engineering subjects.

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