 Conference
Presentations |
Service Learning in South Africa
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The
Everyone, Everywhere |
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Child Rights Initiative
– Using the Arts as Social Change
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Shifting Tides: Ethics and
Accountability in International Action Research |
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Social change, training researchers or teachers, and the
products of knowledge
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Community
Psychology in Africa: The Social Action Project |
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Breaking Silence: Intimate violence
in lesbian and gay couples |
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Sense of Community: The
Women of St. Margaret's House
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Youth Acting Out: Creating
Personal and Collective Efficacy
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Homosexuality and
Alienation: A Closer Look
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Women
in Africa and the African Diaspora -- Bridges Across Activism
and the Academy, University of
Nsukka, Nigeria
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Looking Now Through
History, Back |
13-15 May 2007Dr. Dé Bryant, Director of the Social Action Project (SOCACT), and Juanetta Hill, Family Services Coordinator for the Center for the Homeless, facilitated a workshop entitled Service-Learning in South Africa, at the Second International Symposium on Service-Learning held at University of Indianapolis in collaboration with Indiana Campus Compact; Stollenbosch University, South Africa; and Ningbo Institute of Technology, Zhejiang University, China. The symposium was entitled, Paradigms for the 21st Century: Educators, Community & Students. During the workshop participants completed a practical guide for resource mobilization to develop community-university partnerships.
16 October 2006Dr. Dé Bryant will present her paper entitled, The Everyone, Everywhere to the 20th National Meeting of Campus Compact. The Compact is a consortium of 1,100 universities drawn together because of their emphasis on service-learning, linking classroom education and civic engagement. The paper explores the nature of knowledge, especially in terms of who gets to decide when something we know is legitimate.
9-11 June 2005
Dr. Dé Bryant presented a paper entitled, Child Rights Initiative – Using the Arts as Social Change to the Society for Community Research and Action at University of Illinois – Champaign. The paper discussed the phases of conducting community-based research within an academic setting.
5-7 May 2005
Dr. Dé Bryant presented a paper entitled,
Shifting Tides: Ethics and Accountability in International Action
Research to the First International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry
at University of Illinois, Champaign, IL. The paper explored the
challenges of conducting qualitative research, especially ethical
considerations inherent to social justice initiatives.
15 April 2005Rebecca Shaffer presented her paper entitled, Breaking Silence: Intimate violence in lesbian and gay couples at the Undergraduate Research Conference, Butler University. The paper discussed her challenges and insights as she attempted to develop a support group and website.
16-18 November 2003
Dr. Dé Bryant, the convener of the Faculty Learning Circle, and Drs. Catherine Borshuk, Meryl Domina, and Desiree Vernon conducted a roundtable entitled, Social change, training researchers or teachers, and the products of knowledge. The roundtable was part of the International Conference on Civic Education Research in New Orleans, LA. The roundtable discussion was about the research process, indigenous peoples, and de-colonizing methodologies.
4-7 June 2003
Dr. Dé Bryant presented a paper entitled, Community Psychology in Africa: The Social Action Project to the Biennial Conference of the Society for Community Research and Action in Las Vegas, NM, 4-7 June 2003. The paper discussed the problems with attempting to transfer western psychological theory into an international setting. Project initiatives in Nigeria and South Africa were used to illustrate some of the pitfalls.
11 April 03Sara Curtis presented her paper entitled, Efficacy and standpoint theory: Verbal communication in Art Explore at the Undergraduate Research Conference, Butler University, Indianapolis, IN. The paper discussed the paramount moment that turned the loosely defined group of youths into a collective.
10-13 March 2001Dr. Dé Bryant presented her paper entitled Promise Out of the Storm: Faculty Rewards, Community Response, and Service-Learning to the Fourth North American Conference on the Learning Paradigm, Palomar College, San Diego, California. The paper discussed how service-learning can be used to respond to community needs, provide educational experiences for students, and develop a scholarship of engagement for faculty.
14 April
2000Bhumi Bhavsar presented her paper entitled: Sense of Community: The Women of St. Margaret's House at the Undergraduate Research Conference, Butler University, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.
15-19 March
2000Dr. Dé Bryant will present her paper entitled: Youth Acting Out: Creating Personal and Collective Efficacy to the North American Conference on Learning Paradigms, Palomar College, San Diego, California, USA.
9-12 June
1999Dr. Dé Bryant and Linda Robbins presented their poster session entitled Smoke Signals: A University-Community Model to Teach the Essential Art of Community Building at the 7th Biennial Conference on Community Research and Action, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
23 April
1999Charles Stoner presented his paper entitled Homosexuality and Alienation: A Closer Look to the Undergraduate Research Conference, Indiana University South Bend, South Bend, Indiana, USA.
9-12 January
1999Dr. Dé Bryant presented her paper entitled Forging Asset-Based Linkages to Promote Service-Learning to the North American Conference on Learning Paradigms, Palomar College, San Diego, California, USA.
Looking Now Through History, Back
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Dr. Dé Bryant |
Student Work Made Public |
* Women In Africa and The African Diaspora: Bridges Across Activism and the Academy, 11-18 July 1992, University of Nigeria Nsukka (in SUE kah), Nsukka, Nigeria. The following papers were presented: |
Bryant, D. C. (1998). Links: Student learning, university rewards, and community service. Paper presented at the Learning Paradigm, Second North American Conference, Palomar College, 9-14 January, San Diego, CA.
Bryant, D. C. (1997). Service learning in the global community: Apprentices in action research. Paper presented at the Learning Paradigm Conference, Palomar College, 11-14 January, San Diego, CA.
Bryant, D. C. (1996). Who's got your back?: Barriers to community-based interventions. Paper presented at the Leadership Summit and Empowerment Symposium, 2 December 1996, South Bend, IN.
Bryant, D. C. (1996). Scholarship, radicals, and foreign soil: Experiential learning and social justice in an international setting. Paper presented to the National Society for Experiential Education, 25-27 October, Snowbird, Utah.
Bryant, D. C. (1994). Researcher-practitioner partnerships in community change, #1994:26. In Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the African Studies Association. New York: United Nations Economic Commission for Africa.
*Bryant, D. C. & Hill, J. (1994). Researcher-practitioner partnerships in community change. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the African Studies Association, 3-6 November, Toronto, Ontario.
Bryant, D. C. (1994). Fourth generation NGOs. Paper presented at "Africa in the 21st Century: Development or disaster?," World Affairs Council of Michiana, 4 May, South Bend, IN.
Bryant, D. C. (1993). The role of academicians in international relations. Paper presented at the Canadian Association of African Studies, 12-15 May, Toronto, Ontario.
Bryant, D. C. (1991). Building a power organization. Paper presented at the Midwestern Community Psychology conference, Dowagiac, MI, 11-13 October.
Bryant, D. C., & Melcher, J. M. (1989). The MSU-Benton Project: Lessons in partnership. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Urban Affairs Association, 15-18 March, St. Louis, MO.
Bryant, D. C. (1988). Racial strife: Can a university respond? Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Urban Affairs Association, 8-11 March, St. Louis, MO.
Bryant, D. C. (1988). The evolution of a community-based organization:Precursor to a coalition. Paper presented to the Michigan Academy of Science and Letters, 5 March, Saginaw, MI.
Bryant, D. C. (1987). The internationalized community-based organization. Invited Speakers Series, 10 February, Psychology Department, Michigan State University.
Bryant, D. C. (1985). Toward a natural history model of social change. Paper presented to the Joint Meeting of the Canadian Evaluation Society, Evaluation Network, and Evaluation Research Society, 16-19 October, Toronto, Ontario.
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Contact:
Dr. Dé Bryant,
Director
Social Action Project
Psychology Department, Indiana University South Bend
1700 Mishawaka Avenue, South Bend, IN 46634
(574) 520-4447 -- tel (574) 520-4538 -- fax
dbryant@iusb.edu