{"id":6229,"date":"2015-10-22T21:17:53","date_gmt":"2015-10-22T21:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=6229"},"modified":"2015-10-22T21:18:15","modified_gmt":"2015-10-22T21:18:15","slug":"harry-boyte-discusses-organizing-versus-mobilizing-in-higher-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2015\/10\/22\/harry-boyte-discusses-organizing-versus-mobilizing-in-higher-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Boyte discusses “organizing” versus “mobilizing” in
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\"Huffington-Post\"<\/a>In his most recent article for the Huffington Post, Harry Boyte<\/strong>, senior scholar in Augsburg College\u2019s Sabo Center for Democracy and Citizenship, argues in favor of a relationship-based model for engaging students in democratic society.<\/p>\n

Boyte refers to the “organizing” versus “mobilizing” model pioneered by civil rights leaders such as Ella Baker and Bob Moses. In this view of activism, mobilizing is goal-driven and short-lived, while organizing is relationship-driven and sustains engagement over time. Boyte draws a parallel between these different types of\u00a0activism and educational approaches that focus either on outcomes–such as test scores–or personal growth and agency.<\/p>\n

Read: Education as a New Frontier of Democracy<\/a> at the Huffington Post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In his most recent article for the Huffington Post, Harry Boyte, senior scholar in Augsburg College\u2019s Sabo Center for Democracy and Citizenship, argues in favor of a relationship-based model for engaging students in democratic society. Boyte refers to the “organizing” versus “mobilizing” model pioneered by civil rights leaders such as Ella Baker and Bob Moses. …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,7],"tags":[614,902,1236,3308,2427,3455],"class_list":["post-6229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-faculty","category-staff","tag-civic-engagement","tag-education","tag-harry-boyte","tag-huffington-post","tag-relationships","tag-sabo-center-for-democracy-and-citizenship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/263"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6229"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6235,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6229\/revisions\/6235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}