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Learn rhetoric for writing in public interest, enter communities with negotiation and reflection, prepare for meetings with organizations.
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The Self and Negotiation Unit 1: Class 4 Getting to know organizations and their members
Goals for today • Continue developing a rhetoric for writing in the public interest • Consider ways in which we can begin to enter into communities as outsiders using negotiation and self reflection • Prime yourselves for your first meetings with community organizations
Develop a rhetoric for writing in the public interest • Take out your homework based on page 73 of your book: exploratory writing • Compare your notes and develop them • Offer two concerns for discussion with the whole class
Methods for entering into communities • What ideas, thoughts, and suggestions regarding negotiation in the modules might help you address your concerns?
Methods for entering into communities • Consider what you know, what you don’t know, what you need to know. • Free write in class in which you answer these questions to help you better understand your capacities. • Consider how you will find out
Group Work • Negotiation will happen in at least three different sites with this work: Within Group Organization Class & Ellen
Group Work cont.’ • Trustworthiness is created over time as partners (from Module 4): • Give value and worth to each other's feelings, needs, thoughts, ideas, wishes and preferences • Fulfill their agreed upon responsibilities • Interact in open ways without hidden agendas • Show their belief in and caring for the partnership
Group Work cont.’ • Identify the resources that they bring to the partnership • Identify their needs (i.e., what they individually seek to gain from the partnership) • Identify the partnership needs (i.e., what they collectively seek from the partnership) • Share the resources to meet individual and collective needs
Activity • As a group building exercise: • Use the points from the previous slide to determine your group members’: • Resources that they bring to the partnership • Goals for this work • What they hope the community partners’ need • Get a sense of who would like to do what with the organization.
Homework • Make sure to read the next set of readings: Chapter 3 (skim samples) Complete Box 12 p. 13 in your notebook. • Please complete the “groundwork activity” on page 166-7 using any artifact you’ve gathered and/or the organization’s website. • Make sure to meet with your organization by 1/27 • Make sure to post your field notes and checklist to Angel. Use any of the templates for fieldnotes offered in Chp. 2 or the one from last class.