Dennis Donovan Archives - News and Media /news/tag/dennis-donovan/ Augsburg University Wed, 04 Mar 2020 16:32:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 Dennis Donovan discusses cookbook created by Public Achievement students in KARE 11 segment /news/2016/04/21/dennis-donovan-kare11/ Thu, 21 Apr 2016 19:29:24 +0000 http://www.augsburg.edu/news/?p=7008 KARE 11 television recently interviewed a group of 5th graders who created a multicultural cookbook as a way to promote diversity and tolerance. The students are part Public Achievement, an Augsburg College program designed to teach democracy and citizenship through service projects. The segment also featured program director Dennis Donovan. “There are a lot of issues ...

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]]> kare 11 - logoKARE 11 television recently interviewed a group of 5th graders who created a multicultural cookbook as a way to promote diversity and tolerance. The students are part Public Achievement, an Augsburg College program designed to teach democracy and citizenship through service projects.

The segment also featured program director Dennis Donovan. “There are a lot of issues in the world, and we need people to come together and solve these problems,” he said. “Having young people participate in public achievement gives them a skill-set and process that normally they would not have.”

Watch and read on the KARE 11 site.

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]]> Harry Boyte writes on free spaces for Education Week /news/2016/02/03/harry-boyte-education-week/ Wed, 03 Feb 2016 15:43:20 +0000 http://www.augsburg.edu/news/?p=6665 As part of an ongoing conversation about democracy in education, Harry Boyte, senior scholar in public work philosophy for Augsburg’s Sabo Center for Democracy and Citizenship, recently contributed an article to Education Week in which he argued in favor of free spaces–“places where people find it easy and enjoyable to swap stories, plan adventures, and ...

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]]> As part of an ongoing conversation about democracy in education, Harry Boyte, senior scholar in public work philosophy for Augsburg’s Sabo Center for Democracy and Citizenship, recently contributed an article to Education Week in which he argued in favor of free spaces–“places where people find it easy and enjoyable to swap stories, plan adventures, and discuss and argue politics.”

In the article, Boyte draws on his experiences with Sabo Center colleague Dennis Donovan, national organizer for Public Achievement, to articulate the importance of providing places for challenging yet compassionate dialog.

Read: on the Education Weekly site.

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