The Theory and Practice of Civic Engagement, by Eric Liu

If you come to the Redlands, California on Thursday, September 21, go to the headquarters of the technology company Esri and give my friend Eric Liu a speech to discuss the possibility of citizens participating in our political difficulties please listen. age

If you happen to be not in Redland, I recommend you to receive Eric's book. You are more powerful than you think. It solves one of the core questions of this era: What can citizens who are dissatisfied with the state administration, in addition to writing a check or waiting for the next voting opportunity?

After last year's election, I immediately worked on this Atlantic article and a graduation speech in a few months. However, Eric is an author of Several books on citizenship theory and practice (including opportunities for democratic parks and Chinese), specializing in useful and moving new books, Seattle citizens I am in charge of the university network. About this topic in the era of cards. A few months ago, when I interviewed David Bernstein on the New York Times he explained a few principles. Basically his theme is to take a step to bridge the gap between what to think and "what to do" and to actually do it with himself and others. This is also a continuing theme of citizen university and emphasizes that citizenship is not work status but work.

I will leave the rest details to Eric - in the Redlands platform or in his book. The high conceptual part of his argument comes from these three axioms:

Indeed, he continues to explain these meanings. The political problem of this era is how the elastic quality of American civil society matches the challenge posed by Donald Trump church (as discussed here). Can the judiciary comply with the standards before 2017? How can Congress keep searching for the soul? Do states and cities maintain policies on environment, judicial standards, refugee status and immigration control? Fundamentally, how will the people play a more aggressive and powerful role in the public issue? These and other things are the core struggle of our time. And Eric Liu's book is part of the effort to push the results forward.

If you have time to introduce a third American creed to help students better understand the work of Eric Liu's folklore and citizen's participation, please play the video again and swear. Eric Liu's Resurrection (7: 57) After watching the video clip, the student will consider how the story of Eric Liu relates to the understanding of the national identity of the United States and the United States, or extends it can do. They can end the discussion by adding new features to the US class identity chart.

Play podcast Eric Liu at Citizen Power. In an interview with Mr. Liu, he talked about some of the basic qualities of citizenship and citizenship. When listening to students, I will tell you that words and phrases should be written to help understand the meaning of some important terms used by Liu. Show students with short animation of TED-Ed how to change protests into powerful changes. When it is stronger than you think, when guidelines for change of citizens happen, Liu thinks "the difference between the rhetoric of the revolution and the actual change in values, institutions, habits". Gaps and skills to participate in the revolution. Animation shows the steps necessary to fill this gap.

Let's define politics and define power from the beginning. Politics is the process of deciding who gets what, how much, what, when, and why. Citizen educator Dr. Eric Liu tells us that the power of civil society is to give the community the power to make choices and actions that you want them. Power determines the execution and enforcement of the law by deciding who will make political rules. It has several forms: physical strength, wealth, national behavior (legal and bureaucratic), social norms, thoughts and figures