Tuesday, February 24, 2009: 2:00 – 3:30 p.m.
Overview:
All too often, communities fail to achieve their potential due to an inability to engage constructively with controversy. Similarly, too many communities are unaware of and untutored in the array of ideas and skills that can increase the likelihood that conflict will be engaged constructively rather than destructively.
A group of national Extension leaders in Public Issues Education is developing a training curriculum designed to strengthen the capacity of local professionals to design, implement and evaluate programming that builds local capacity to manage controversial public issues. In this webinar the curriculum content, the status of the different modules, and its possible uses will be discussed.
Learning Objectives:
Webinar participants will: (1) increase their awareness of the developing Public Issues Education curriculum, its uses and related tools and approaches and (2) develop a basic understanding of the types of skills and approaches to public controversy that can help communities turn a seemingly negative situation into one that is positive and constructive.
Instructor Bio:
David Kay is a Sr. Extension Associate with Cornell’s Community and Rural Development Institute. (Others involved in the training curriculum development have been invited to participate.) David’s Extension and research responsibilities focus on land use planning and community and economic development issues. He has been actively involved with several of the state’s leading professional and volunteer land use planning organizations and is a trained and practicing volunteer community mediator.
Please click here to view the recorded webinar.
Resources from the webinar:
Three Dimensions of Public Issues Education
Facilitation of an Ad Hoc Community Planning Committee by a Cornell Cooperative Extension Association: A Case Study
By Marilyn Wyman