"Reweaving [social webs] will also depend on our ability to create new spaces for recognition, reconnection, conversation and debate."
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"One often underestimated technique for creating new identities and bridging social distance, as well as for helping to create social capital in other ways, is telling stories."
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"A community of practice-- refers to informal groups of people who share knowledge and support one another in their common work. These are relationships with a purpose."
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"A good third place makes few demands on the people who gather there... A third place is a neutral ground where people from different walks of like in the community can meet and get to know one another, having in common perhaps only their desire to frequent this particular place."
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"Managing the spirit of the program and the close connection and constant communication that characterize it now will become harder as the program expands."
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A Case Study on Do Something:
"Everyone has experienced the supposedly open discussions manipulated toward a predetermined outcome, the supervisor who welcomes all ideas as long as they coincide with his own, the language of empowerment used to disguise control....
When you start coaching in Do Something you have to back off. That's the hardest part if you're a teacher and used to being in charge.... Let young people lead is the mantra repeated again and again...
adults... contribute... from the sidelines rather than from the field."
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