WORKING PARTNERS
An Urban Youth Report
On Risk, Stress, and Respect
In This Report
- Overview of Issues and the Strategies in Dialogues
- Strategy 1: Getting the Story Behind the Story
- Strategy 2: Seeking Rival Hypotheses
- Strategy 3: Examining Options and Outcomes
- How to Create a Community Problem-Solving Dialogue
Community Problem-Solving Dialogues like these are tools for change. They support intercultural collaboration that gives respect and voice to the expertise of everyone. And they create a platform on which to build workable visions of a more just and compassionate community.
This report draws from the texts, videos, and public community conversations produced by teenagers at Pittsburgh's Community Literacy Center, collaborating with Carnegie Mellon student mentors. It illustrates a process that supports both learning and inquiry through three strategies:
Getting the Story Behind the Story
Seeking Rival Hypotheses, and
Examining Options and Outcomes.
These research-based strategies can help community groups, educators, and policy makers to initiate Community Problem-Solving Dialogues of their own.