Unity Through Community Service Activities: Strategies to Bridge Ethnic and Cultural Divides - Brossura

Hoffman, August John

 
9780786441082: Unity Through Community Service Activities: Strategies to Bridge Ethnic and Cultural Divides
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ISBN 10: 0786441089 ISBN 13: 9780786441082
Casa editrice: McFarland Publishing, 2009

Sinossi

Community service work is an ideal way not only to help define how young people deal with each other but actually to facilitate these interactions and help them achieve meaning in their lives. This book addresses community service ways to overcome divisions, foster multicultural group development, and reduce ethnocentrism and ethnic conflict.

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Informazioni sull?autore

August John Hoffman is a professor of psychology at California State University Northridge and El Camino College-Compton Center. His research interests include community service work and student mentoring as effective methods to reduce ethnic conflict and improve self-efficacy among community college students. Norma Espinosa Parker, born in Havana, is a developer of the CCC Cultural and Fine Arts Academy, whose more than 300 students from different backgrounds, cultures, and races were enrolled in a summer and after school music program. Eduardo Sanchez is a psychology student at California State University Northridge. He collaborates with Hoffman on various research projects involving community relations. His research interests include interracial interaction through community service work. Julie Wallach is a graduate of California State University Northridge. She has co-authored more than a dozen articles with Hoffman.

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Community service work is an ideal way not only to help define how young people deal with each other but actually to facilitate these interactions and help them achieve meaning in their lives. This book addresses community service ways to overcome divisions, foster multicultural group development, and reduce ethnocentrism and ethnic conflict.

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Editore
McFarland Publishing
Data di pubblicazione
2009
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0786441089
ISBN 13 
9780786441082
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
212
Contatto del produttore
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Persona responsabile
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