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Civic Learning & Action Goals
These goals, prepared by the Bonner Center for Civic Engagement in collaboration with community members, staff, faculty, and students, are reference points for impactful civic engagement. We see all participants in civic engagement activities as learners.
Each goal set contains three domains of learning: building awareness, cultivating capacity, and taking action.
Self
Learners will grow in ways that enhance their positive impact on the world around them. Specifically, learners will build their capacities for:
Perspective Taking
Analyzing the origins, strengths, and limitations of one’s own and others’ worldviews
Cultural Humility
Evaluating and, as appropriate, modifying one’s assumptions and biases that contribute to inequity
Civic Commitment
Developing one’s commitment to and effectiveness in participation in public processes
Society
Learners will engage responsibly with others to address community challenges and advance the public good. Specifically, learners will build their capacities for:
Strengths Orientation
Analyzing the positive contributions people’s knowledge, skills, and resources might make within communities
Change Agency
Evaluating and, as appropriate, modifying one’s use of co-creative approaches to community and environmental change
Collaboration
Developing one’s commitment to and effectiveness in working with others
Systems
Learners will understand the networked factors that nurture and impede the flourishing of individuals and communities, and will act accordingly to promote positive change. Specifically, learners will build their capacities for:
Holistic Analysis
Analyzing the broad, complex, and interrelated factors that contribute to systemic challenges
Power Analysis
Evaluating and, as appropriate, modifying dynamics that contribute to inequity
Sustainable Action
Developing one’s commitment to and effectiveness in advancing future systems that encourage the flourishing of individuals, communities, and the environment