Keywords
grand rapids, seeds of promise, dialogue, integration, action, deliberation, crime, community, liberal studies
Disciplines
Liberal Studies
Abstract
As a part of Grand Valley State University’s LIB312: “Dialogue, Integration, and Action,” we – a team of Liberal Studies majors in the fall of 2015 – codesigned, facilitated, and analyzed a community dialogue with residents in the Grand Rapids neighborhood surrounding Seeds of Promise. Occurring on November 5th, this community dialogue was designed to
- Provide a space for residents to share their stories,
- Prioritize their key values,
- Identify a broad range of possible interventions for addressing the issues of most concern to them.
The design of this dialogue was informed by a range of skills and techniques from a variety of course materials and readings. Some of the titles and authors that informed this project include:
- Dialogue and the Art of Thinking Together (1999), William Isaacs.
- Justice and the Politics of Difference (1990), Iris Marion Young.
- Democracy in Motion (2012), Tina Nabatchi and John Gastil
- Healing the Heart of Democracy (2011), Parker Palmer
- The Deliberative Democracy Handbook (2005), John Gastil and Peter Levine
- “Citizen Participation and the Democratization of Policy Expertise” (1993), Frank Fischer
- “Confronting the Implications of Wicked Problems” (2004), Hal Salwasser
The following is a report summarizing the findings from the dialogue.
ScholarWorks Citation
Baldwin, Bryan; Calderon, Adalberto; Dickerson, Jordan; Hamilton, John; and Ranger, Crystal, "Seeds of Promise Community Dialogue Report of Deliberative Findings Two" (2015). Undergraduate Research. 5.
https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/lib_undergrad/5
