Can a community move past its history of conflicts, social injustices, and political polarization to find a common goal in building a better future? Every two or four years, we hope that civil society as a united entity will exercise its democratic job of electing new representatives that will lead us to this journey. ButContinue reading “Lessons from Greensboro: learning community for civic engagement”
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Impackt: design thinking process to build a social entrepreneurship learning platform
In this project, two colleagues and I had one driving question: how can we support undergraduate minority students who want to create social positive impact in their communities? Impackt‘s prototype presents the idea of a social entrepreneurship learning platform and online community, in which learners can get connected to resources from social entrepreneurs to fundingContinue reading “Impackt: design thinking process to build a social entrepreneurship learning platform”
Engaged classroom: collaborative learning for civic engagement
Twenty-five years ago, I was asked to debate with my classmates about whether my country should be a monarchy or republic, and have a parliamentary or presidential system of government. In 1993, Brazil was going through an intense political transition after decades of military dictatorship, and citizens were asked to vote in a plebiscite soonContinue reading “Engaged classroom: collaborative learning for civic engagement”
Amanda Luz 