{"id":15382,"date":"2015-06-15T12:08:41","date_gmt":"2015-06-15T16:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=15382"},"modified":"2015-06-15T12:08:54","modified_gmt":"2015-06-15T16:08:54","slug":"seventh-annual-summer-institute-civic-studies-underway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=15382","title":{"rendered":"the seventh annual Summer Institute of Civic Studies is underway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We will be meeting daily for 6-7 hours of seminar discussion for the next two weeks. The syllabus is <a href=\"http:\/\/activecitizen.tufts.edu\/civic-studies\/summer-institute\/\">here<\/a>. This year&#8217;s participants include professors and civic activists from Zimbabwe, Liberia, Mexico, the Netherlands, and Singapore, as well as professors, graduate students, NGO leaders, social entrepreneurs, and a civil servant from the US. Today we will be considering some topics that I&#8217;ve blogged before: <a href=\"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=5711\">why Margaret Mead&#8217;s exhortation to &#8220;change the world&#8221; is inspiring but flawed<\/a>; Seamus Heaney&#8217;s vision of a &#8220;<a title=\"Permalink to Seamus Heaney, The Republic of Conscience (questions for a discussion)\" href=\"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=7899\" rel=\"bookmark\">Republic of Conscience&#8221;;<\/a> <a title=\"Permalink to basic theories of civic development\" href=\"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=9202\" rel=\"bookmark\">the relationship between education\/human development and civic engagement<\/a>; the work of <a title=\"Permalink to on the contributions of Vincent and Elinor Ostrom\" href=\"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=13973\" rel=\"bookmark\">Vincent and Elinor Ostrom<\/a>; and Elinor Ostrom&#8217;s own <a title=\"Permalink to why engineers should study Elinor Ostrom\" href=\"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=12437\" rel=\"bookmark\">framework<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We will be meeting daily for 6-7 hours of seminar discussion for the next two weeks. The syllabus is here. This year&#8217;s participants include professors and civic activists from Zimbabwe, Liberia, Mexico, the Netherlands, and Singapore, as well as professors, graduate students, NGO leaders, social entrepreneurs, and a civil servant from the US. Today we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civic-theory","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15382"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15386,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15382\/revisions\/15386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}