As a loyal follower of the Elvis Duran and the Morning Show. there was an intriguing statement from him on one of the morning, last week.
“You will have a better life if you just ignore it” today’s quote from @elvisduran – finding ways for effective #dissertating #PhDlife
— Dadit Hidayat (@DaditHidayat) July 25, 2014
Continue reading You will have a better life if you just ignore it
Shared a poster in the Community Development Society annual meeting and conference in Dubuque July 20-23, 2014.
My poster is basically a reflection on the last five service learning courses I co-instructed in the past four academic years. Please read my posts on my past service learning courses for more information about them.
In the mean time you can view an image version of the poster. Continue reading Shouldn’t Service Learning be About Civic Engagement?
Met wonderful people at the Community Development Society! In addition to participating in the conference, because this is a membership-based group, I also attended their annual meeting. People are kind, a relatively small group but growing.
Some interesting notes around the issue of community development society, and also specifically those related with the environment, that I took and would certainly be part of my thinking for a very long time.
mechanical posture vs ecological posture
I have been thinking about how human-human relationship (community development) and human-nature relationship (sustainable development) have some natural differences. One tends to ve social science/humanistic driven while the other is scientific driven. I argue that some community development tools need to be consciously integrated to the efforts of promoting sustainable behaviors when addressing the increasingly complex environmental problems. But will only be successful if it is framed as a collaborative action as opposed to individual action; thus, collective behavior change as opposed to individual behavior change. How the spirit of collective action in community development be integrated in environmentalism, in practice.
to get to the goal, you gotta dance with the wicked
This reassures me that nothing is simple. When it looks simple (the problem you are trying to solve), then it highly likely that you see it wrong.
safer to be wrong in a group than to be right alone
It is not easy to make a difference and create change. Empowering a group of people for actions will have to deal with existing power that may collectively resist to change.
Thinking outside the box may no longer relevant when everyone has a different size of boxes
This is just reality that every individuals has their own frames when it comes to see a problem. This quote encourages us to always see a problem through the lens of diversity.
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One thing I really want to do now is to be more supportive to Fasha, and always be positive about what he does. No, being positive is not always about agreeing on something. You can still be critical but in a positive way.
This post now is about our weekend soccer games. Fasha had a total of four games, two on Saturday and two on Sunday.
Being flexible can be interpreted in many different ways. As a graduate student and a lead-instructor in a few different collaborative projects, I could offer some thoughts.
by: Alex Schwartz and Dadit Hidayat
On Tuesday June 3rd 2014 there was a big celebration for friends of South Madison at the Olin House, the UW-Madison Chancellor’s residence. Robert Pierce was honored with the 2014 LaMarr Billups Community-University Engagement Award by the UW-Madison Chancellor, Becky Blank. His exceptional collaboration with the university for over 15 years is unparalleled.
The LaMarr Billups award is a prestigious one for individuals who have demonstrated outstanding contributions to campus-community partnerships. LaMarr Billups was a much respected community leader at UW-Madison, and was deeply committed to key civic institutions and social causes. He served as a special assistant to two UW-Madison chancellors and was the director of community relations from 1996 to 2007. Continue reading Robert Pierce and South Madison friends honored by UW-Madison Chancellor
I have been following the Changing Game Project since last year, and the book and the blog posts have been inspiring; I personally met John O’Sullivan himself when he stopped by in Madison. But it does not mean anything when we, parents, do not follow the inspiring messages, right! Knowing and doing have always been two very different things and they apply to almost all aspects of our lives.
