{"id":216,"date":"2010-03-11T13:07:07","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T18:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/?p=216"},"modified":"2011-11-07T16:08:56","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T21:08:56","slug":"discussion-about-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/2010\/03\/11\/discussion-about-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Discussion about Power"},"content":{"rendered":"

This exercise <\/a>is designed to\u00a0be\u00a0used with \u201cCommunity Organizing and Social Change<\/strong>\u201d by Randy Stoecker\u00a0in\u00a0 Contexts <\/em>Winter 2009. The activity is meant to stimulate a conversation among students about power and get them engaged with the topic.<\/p>\n

Guidlines \u00a0for the Instructor:<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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  1. Before class, make four signs labeled, \u201cagree,\u201d \u201cstrongly agree,\u201d \u201cdisagree,\u201d and \u201cstrongly disagree.\u201d\u00a0 Hang one sign in each corner of the classroom.<\/li>\n
  2. Tell students that you will be reading a series of statements about power.\u00a0 After each statement, they should go stand under the sign that most closely reflects their own reaction to the statement.<\/li>\n
  3. Read the first statement (listed below).\u00a0 After students have assembled in groups under the signs, ask each group to discuss why they picked that particular position and to choose a spokesperson to explain their position to the class.<\/li>\n
  4. Give the students about 3 minutes (depending on the class size) to discuss their position and choose a spokesperson.\u00a0 Then have the four spokespeople explain their group\u2019s positions.<\/li>\n
  5. Now ask everyone to leave their group and go to the center of the room.\u00a0 Then ask students to again go stand under the sign that most closely reflects their own reaction to the statement.\u00a0 (This gives students the opportunity to change their positions, if they choose to do so.)\u00a0 Ask whether, after hearing the various arguments, any students changed their position.\u00a0 Then ask a few volunteers to explain why they decided to change their positions.<\/li>\n
  6. Repeat this exercise for the following statements.\u00a0 You can manage the length of the exercise based on how many statements you discuss.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Statements about Power:<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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    • Power corrupts.
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    • You can\u2019t get anything done without power.
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    • Power comes from position or money.
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    • Organizations that want to change things in their community should seek power.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      This exercise is designed to\u00a0be\u00a0used with \u201cCommunity Organizing and Social Change\u201d by Randy Stoecker\u00a0in\u00a0 Contexts Winter 2009. The activity is meant to stimulate a conversation among students about power and get them engaged with the topic. Guidlines \u00a0for the Instructor: Before class, make four signs labeled, \u201cagree,\u201d \u201cstrongly agree,\u201d \u201cdisagree,\u201d and \u201cstrongly disagree.\u201d\u00a0 Hang one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[837,868,45],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-materials","tag-power","tag-social-movements"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":963,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions\/963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}