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TEDC Local Policies for Environmental Justice: A National Scan

TEDC Local Policies for Environmental Justice: A National Scan

Imagining America DEA White Paper

Imagining America DEA White Paper

400 Years of Inequality

400 Years of Inequality

Curriculum Toolkit: Sound the Mound

Curriculum Toolkit: Sound the Mound

Jemez Principles for Democratic Organizing

Jemez Principles for Democratic Organizing

Civic Professionalism

Civic Professionalism

Culture and Community Development in Higher Education

Culture and Community Development in Higher Education

Participatory Action Research (PAR) Working Tool

Participatory Action Research (PAR) Working Tool

Structuring Equality

Structuring Equality

Assessing Research-Practice Partnerships

Assessing Research-Practice Partnerships

DEED’S FIELDWORK PRINCIPLES

DEED’S FIELDWORK PRINCIPLES

City Parks Foundation is the only independent, nonprofit organization whose mission is to offer programs in public parks throughout the five boroughs of New York City. At City Parks Foundation, we are dedicated to invigorating and transforming parks into dynamic...

City Parks Foundation

Currently at The New School connections are emerging between graduate programs across the various divisions. In different ways, each node in this emerging network is forming within a climate of cross-disciplinary research and practice; and each is responding...

University Transdisciplinary Labs

This toolkit in its original format and content was created by as a part of Erica Kohl-Arenas’ 2015-16 Participatory Community Engagement class at The New School’s Milano School of International Affairs, Management, and Urban Policy. While the activities can be used individually...

Humanities Action Lab Toolkit

This course has two primary goals. First, students will gain an understanding of the theory behind participatory community development, popular education and critical pedagogy. Second, in class and through partnerships with local organizations and communities students...

Community Partnership Overview

This document shares the story of New Challenge, its unique approach to learning, the transformative impact it has on both students and communities, and the role it plays in larger educational innovation efforts at The New School and beyond.

New Challenge Report

HealthClass 2.0 is an experiential learning program empowering New York City youth to engage in new conversations about health, food and exercise. HC2.0’s approach to health education involves exhilarating workouts, healthy food and collaborative inquiry...

Health Class 2.0 Sample Lesson Plan

Since 2009, the critical pedagogy project “Working with People” has been developing innovative approaches toward fostering critical conversations around “civic engagement” and the pedagogy and politics of teaching and collaborating “with communities.

Working With People Syllabus

The project “Walk Harlem” was conceptualized and created during Spring 2014 by Nour Chamoun, Daryl Meador, Ann-Sofie Persson and Hugo Rojas. Initial inquiry Our initial investigation was to explore Harlem through its more underground...

“Walk Harlem” Project Final Reflections

The purpose of this Lab is to imagine new futures for the youth in Harlem. Our goal is to generate ideas to support the great work that many organizasions are already doing. Our Lab focused on how to create a collaborative platform building upon the work of individuals and local...

Harlem Collaboration Project: Social Lab Report

Since the 1960’s, spurred by civil unrest in the US, new community groups were created to stimulate political involvement. Reacting to citizen action, many city governments, urban planners and architects adopted community engagement practices in an attempt to include...

Integral City: A Collaborative Design Approach to Warren, Ohio

The Imagining America Tenure Team Initiative (TTI) was inspired by faculty members who want to do public scholarship and live to tell the tale. We propose concrete ways to remove obstacles to academic work carried out for and/or with the public by giving such work full standing as scholarship, research, or artistic creation. While we recommend a number of ways to alter the wording and intent of tenure and promotion policies, changing the rules is not enough. Enlarging the conception of who counts as “peer” and what counts as “publication” is part of something bigger: the democratization of knowledge on and off campus. 

Scholarship in Public: Knowledge Creation and Tenure Policy in the Engaged University

Disrupting Ourselves: The Problem of Learning in Higher Education

The New School for Public Engagement is dedicated to the integration of civic, liberal, and professional learning for the advancement of a just and plural society. Faculty and students in the division undertake a wide range of scholarly and creative practices that build new knowledge, solve pressing social problems, produce innovative forms of culture, and generate new understandings of the world. The division embodies the founding principles of The New School--namely the search for creative forms of education to prepare students for democratic citizenship--and as such provides a crucial space within the university for experimentation.

Evaluating the Publicly Engaged Work of Faculty: Ideas, Principles, and Practices

The New School Collaboratory is a two-year research and design initiative launched formally in June 2013 with funding from the Rockefeller Foundation. It aims to enhance the University’s efforts to foster meaningful, communities and external partners in New York City. Through cross-cutting analysis of a set of partnership projects, the Collaboratory seeks to identify the challenges of and best practices for collaboration from the perspectives of all stakeholders, including communities, institutional partners, students, and faculty.

Collaboratory Interim Report: Insights from a Community of Practice

Research is something that we all do on a daily basis. We observe patterns in our communities, ask questions of our neighbors, read articles and watch news about our city. We analyze the world around us and talk to our family and friends about what works and what doesn’t work. Participatory Action Research (PAR) provides a framework for us to analyze and document these everyday actions and allows us to create data and evidence that will strengthen our social justice work. PAR also allows us to identify and become the experts about the issues that face our communities.

Research for Organizing Toolkit