History Of Advocacy Research Articles

New Dimensions of Global Advocacy

This article argues that globalization impels NGOs to engage further in advocacy work, and that globalization provides important new opportunities as well as significant challenges. In particular, NGOs both north and south will have to form strategic alliances. The article uses Oxfam GB's history of advocacy to examine options open to NGOs and to suggest future directions and possible criteria for effective advocacy.

Social Responsibility Revisited: Critical Thinking and Empathy as Necessary Components of Social Change

The field of Recreation and Leisure has a history of advocacy and social reform. In recent history, there have been spirited dialogues, beginning with the 1991 SPRE Teaching Institute, about the role of recreation and leisure educators in facilitating social responsibility, and by extension, social change. The purpose of this paper is twofold: first, we will explore the topics of critical thinking and empathy; and second, we will discuss activities that can be used to teach critical thinking and empathy into the classroom. Our discussion of critical thinking and empathy will be couched in terms of how the teaching of critical thinking and empathy can lead us to work toward issues of social change in the classroom and in the field.

History of advocacy and social policy within the society for adolescent medicine

Woodstock. The Summer of Love. The Merry Pranksters. The “dawning of the Age of Aquarius.” The Miracle Mets. The first NASA/U.S.A. moonwalk. The beginning of the end of the Beatles. These events were how many current Society for Adolescent Medicine (SAM) members might have defined the year 1969. Happily, the founding members of SAM had other more important (or perhaps just additional) matters on their minds.

Social Responsibility Revisited: Critical Thinking and Empathy as Necessary Components of Social Change

The field of Recreation and Leisure has a history of advocacy and social reform. In recent history, there have been spirited dialogues, beginning with the 1991 SPRE Teaching Institute, about the role of recreation and leisure educators in facilitating social responsibility, and by extension, social change. The purpose of this paper is twofold: first, we will explore the topics of critical thinking and empathy; and second, we will discuss activities that can be used to teach critical thinking and empathy into the classroom. Our discussion of critical thinking and empathy will be couched in terms of how the teaching of critical thinking and empathy can lead us to work toward issues of social change in the classroom and in the field.

The Children's Rights Movement: A History of Advocacy and Protection

The Children's Rights Movement: A History of Advocacy and Protection

Division of Assets in Kansas

Kansas is one of several states that implemented spousal impoverishment legislation prior to the new federal law. The three-year history of advocacy in Kansas shows that Kansas advocates succeeded because they were in the right place at the right time with a public issue and a bill that legislators could approve. Court decisions in other states eventually resolved the uncertainty of federal disapproval for this innovative legislation.

Advocacy and Coordination of Services

Adapted physical educators are spending much of their time and energy advocating for the right of all children and youth to a high quality of physical education service delivery and the elimination of attitudinal, aspirational, and architectural barriers experienced by handicapped persons. Prior to the 1960s, lawyers or legal advocates were the ones who would plead the cause for others. Since then, however, three types of advocates have evolved: citizen, professional, and consumer advocates. Adapted physical educators are professional advocates, but they must have an understanding of the other types of advocates. The purpose of this article is to acquaint adapted physical educators with the job function of advocacy, the history of advocacy, and the many roles advocates play.