The Sabo Center for Democracy and Citizenship has created a variety of materials to support the theoretical and practical work of democracy.
Democracy’s Education: Public Work, Citizenship, and the Future of Colleges and Universities
Edited by Harry C. Boyte
New possibilities for democratic revitalization with educators as agents and architects, not victims, of change. Today Americans feel powerless in the face of problems on every front. Such feelings are acute in higher education, where educators are experiencing an avalanche of changes: cost-cutting, new technologies, and demands that higher education be narrowly geared to the needs of today’s workplace. College graduates face mounting debt and uncertain job prospects and worry about a coarsening of the mass culture and the erosion of authentic human relationships. Higher education is increasingly seen as a ticket to individual success—a private good, not a public one.
Democracy’s Education grows from the American Commonwealth Partnership, a year-long project to revitalize the democratic narrative of higher education that began with an invitation to Harry Boyte from the White House to put together a coalition aimed at strengthening higher education as a public good. The project was launched at the beginning of 2012 to mark the 150th anniversary of the Morrill Act, which created land grant colleges.
Contributors: Harry C. Boyte, David Mathews, Scott J. Peters, Albert W. Dzur, Martha Kanter, Nancy Cantor, Peter Englot, Robert Bruininks, Andy Furco, Robert Jones, Jayne K. Sommers, Erin A. Konkle, Judith A. Ramaley, Adam Weinberg, Maria Avila, Romand Coles, Blase Scarnati, KerryAnn O’Meara, Timothy K. Eatman, Jamie Haft, Cecilia Orphan, David Hoffman, Julie Ellison, Jenny L. Whitcher, Robert L. Woodson Sr., Sam Daley-Harris, Benjamin R. Barber, Peter Levine, John P. Spencer, Shigeo Kodama, Xolela Mangcu, Lisa Clarke, Paul N. Markham
The Coach’s Guide for Public Achievement is available as a digital file.
This guide contains the material originally published in Building Worlds, Transforming Lives, Making History: A Coach’s Guide for Public Achievement, by Bridget Erlanson and Robert Hildreth, which is out of print.
Training Manual: Developing and Preparing Coaches
by Margaret Post
54 pages (Minneapolis: Center for Democracy and Citizenship, 2003)
This manual is intended to equip coach coordinators and trainers with a variety of tools, techniques and exercises for coach orientation, coach development, and work with sites.
$8.00
The Citizen Solution: How You Can Make a Difference
by Harry Boyte
224 pages (Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2008)
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Voices of Hope: The Story of the Jane Addams School for Democracy
edited by Nan Kari and Nan Skelton
144 pages (Charles K. Kettering Foundation, 2007)
Everyday Politics: Reconnecting Citizens and Public Life
by Harry C. Boyte
239 pages (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004)
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Commonwealth: A Return to Citizen Politics
by Harry C. Boyte
Harry Boyte offers a reinterpretation of politics and power in which citizens, not experts and pundits, take center stage.
218 pages. (New York: The Free Press, 1989)
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Free Spaces: The Sources of Democratic Change
by Sara M. Evans and Harry C. Boyte.
A pathbreaking study of the nature of democratic movements.
227 pages. (New York: Harper & Row, 1986)
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Building America: The Democratic Promise of Public Work
by Harry C. Boyte and Nancy N. Kari
Boyte and Kari use examples from low-income communities, colleges, high-tech newspapers, government agencies, and schools, to put forth an original theory of work as a source of democratic renewal.
255 pages. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1996)
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