8310 Week5 Dis2

Assignment Task Part 2

Respond to all feedback from professor and one of your colleagues’ posts in 125 words and identify commonalities and differences in your experience. Consider the value of using documents and other media as data sources in qualitative research.

Be sure to support your main post and response post with reference to the week’s Learning Resources and other scholarly evidence in APA style.

WHITLEY SCARBOROUGH (Colleague 1)

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Positive Social Change

Positive social change is not just a buzzword, but a phrase that is full of meaning and can have major impacts on different groups of people in many different ways. Social change can look different in the eyes of each person. We all see changes in our world that could take place to make a positive effect. As change agents, we must see past the problems and be able to seek and understand our part in the solution (Ashoka, 2017). Being a positive social change agent takes commitment. Allow yourself to make the change. As a social change agent, being that positive impact many times will go against the normal path of society, but the willingness and commitment are what drive the change in you and ultimately in society. All stakeholders have a part/ responsibility in creating social change (Aguinis and Glavas, 2012).

 

My Understanding

My understanding of positive social change is impacting society with change in a good way. As a student at Walden University, my program has been built on the principles of creating positive social change. Walden University provides a mission statement that reads “Walden University provides a diverse community of career professionals with the opportunity to transform themselves as scholar-practitioners so that they can affect positive social change” (Walden University, 2015). Walden uses its platform of educating students to grow and develop change agents. In the world we live in today, we need social change agents. 

 

According to Data

According to my analytic memo, all of the Scholar of change videos describe a problem/ phenomenon they saw and wanted to further seek solutions to create positive social change. Christine Topper describes the social change she wants to see in Hong Kong to reverse/ minimize the impact that Nature Deficit Disorder has on students (Topper, 2014). Seeing a video of a social change agent helps me to understand a small change can have such a positive major impact on society. The solution Topper saw to create change was to build micro-garden in the schools to have students be able to interact with nature. These students were“...in charge of taking care of the garden, from planting, and weeding, to harvesting and selling the produce to the school community…” (Topper, 2014). This has impacted my thoughts and intentions on creating social change. A social change issue does not have to involve policy, law, or changing procedure, it could be implementing something small to create positive interactions.

 

Walden University on Social Change

This becoming a “Social change agent” to effect positive social change spans all disciplines at Walden University. Walden Strives to build community, empower change-makers, and elevate change (Walden University, 2015). As a student, I am striving to prepare myself for the social change I wish to create. I wish to impact students in my local school district positively. I am committing myself to further seek out improvements and change that can have a major positive impact on students.

References

Aguinis, H. & Glavas, A. (2012). What we know and don’t know about corporate social responsibility: A review and research agenda. Journal of Management, 38(4). 932-968.

Ashoka. (2017). My changemaker toolkit. Retrieved from https://issuu.com/ashokachangemakers/docs/my_changemaker_toolkit_2017_issuu

Topper, C. (2014). Christin Topper, PhD student, bringing the natural world to Hong Kong [Video file].

Walden University. (2015). Social change. Retrieved from https://www.waldenu.edu/about/social-change

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