Prosocial Schools

Scaffold and ensure adaptive understandings of moral psychology

Humans across cultures and from early in childhood display a diversity of often strong moral beleifs and related actions in the world. Understanding the diversity and commonalities in human moral reasoning can be seen as a prequisite for engaging in public discourse on highly contentious and complex social or ecological issues. Schools can work to ensure an iterative, scaffolded, interdisciplinary curriculum that support adaptive understandings of diverse perspectives in moral psychology.

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Harkavy, I., Hodges, R. A., & Weeks, J. (2022). Transforming Schools, Communities, and Universities: University-Assisted Community Schools as a Case Study. In Research Anthology on Service Learning and Community Engagement Teaching Practices (pp. 544-561). IGI Global.

Transforming Schools, Communities, and Universities: University-Assisted Community Schools as a Case Study

Harkavy, I., Hodges, R. A., & Weeks, J. (2022). Transforming Schools, Communities, and Universities: University-Assisted Community Schools as a Case Study. In Research Anthology on Service Learning and Community Engagement Teaching Practices (pp. 544-561). IGI Global. Read More »

Sangaramoorthy, T., & Kroeger, K. A. (2020). Rapid ethnographic assessments: A practical approach and toolkit for collaborative community research. Routledge.

This book provides provides a practical guide to understanding and conducting rapid ethnographic assessments (REAs) with an emphasis on their use in public health contexts. This team-based, multi-method, relatively low-cost approach results in rich understandings of social, economic, and policy factors that contribute to the root causes of an emerging situation and provides rapid, practical feedback to policy makers and programs.

Sangaramoorthy, T., & Kroeger, K. A. (2020). Rapid ethnographic assessments: A practical approach and toolkit for collaborative community research. Routledge. Read More »