[hr-education] New civic engagement coach manual published

Dear Friends, 

Over the last two weeks we have been busy distributing and stocking our
brand new Public Achievement Coach Manual - entirely homemade and entirely
in Turkish.

The manual is 160 pages and has about 125 pages of text. The text is rich
with quotations from coaches and has several coach stories and a few team
stories. The last 30 pages are in color and contain newspaper coverage,
photos from coach trainings, coach meetings, a PA festival and also photos
of the 13 authors.

We held two weekend working meetings last year so as to collectively write
the book. I constructed a backbone and then we identified headers under
sections and then wrote sections for these headers in pairs. Next the work
was read and edited collectively. The cutting and pasting etc. that
followed was not difficult and I took care of that process.

Each section contains voices of the coaches, either in full (if they wrote
their own coaching story) or in pieces (quotations from coach's weekly
reports, recorded in the weekly "team monitoring form" and passed onto all
other coaches via a yahoogroup).

The manual opens with multiple welcome messages - each author wrote a
personal welcome - reflecting the diversity, the creativity and the
enthusiasm of the people making PA a reality here.

The manual also has a section where we thank those who contributed to our
work here.

I am very happy that my second book is also a non-technical, grassroots,
and participation-focused publication.

Best, 

Serdar 

P.S. For information on Public Achievement, please visit our brand new
site www.paunite.org.

Serdar M. Degirmencioglu, Ph.D. 
Associate Professor, Beykent University Dept of Psychology, Istanbul,
Turkey 
Postal address: P.K. 18, Goztepe, 34730 Istanbul, Turkey 
Phone: 90 - 533 - 341 35 88 
Fax: 90 - 216 - 363 34 84 (Please note my name on the cover page) 
e-mail: <       >

Member, Executive Committee, International Society for the Study of
Behavioural Development Secretary, ESA Youth & Generation Research
Network President-elect, International Committee, Society for
Community Research & Action Member, International Committee, Society
for Research on Adolescence Past-President, Regional Network for
Children (NGO/UNICEF Regional Network for Children in Central and
Eastern Europe, Commonwealth of Independent States and Baltic States)







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