Assignment: Course Project Part 5: Program-Related Social Change Activities
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Global Day of Service and Your Specialization
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Specializing in social change can be an amazing experience especially during the global day of service that has been set aside to offer free social change to those in need. As an individual, I am looking forward for the day because it would be a great day of learning and getting practical with the things I have learned. For this day of the service project, I will be volunteering at an agency that works with children with disability. During this day, I will be participating in playing important roles at the agency for instance, reading books to the children, compound, washing their clothes, cooking, and feeding these children and any other task I might be allocated.
The selected proposed project would directly support social change in my program and career because it is a project that would grant a direct engagement with the people in need. This means, that I will have a chance to get to learn what children with disabilities go through as well as the people working for the agency. This is important for social change because it is an experience that would help in developing the right feelings, values, and morals which are necessary for social change to take effect (Cooper et al., 2016). For instance, meeting and interacting with these children with disabilities would be a great chance to a build rapport and a bond. In my field, I require to offer client-oriented services. The reason is that I will be able to understand their pains, miseries, and life challenges as well as learn how to handle them in a manner that would make them feel wanted and appreciated. It would be a moment of socially changing from the things, I am familiar with to things, I am not aware of on how they are handled. According to Fullan (2016), indicates that you should “create a personal learning experience through which one can reflect on”. All these are important for my career because professionals in my career needs to have the values, personality, and attitude to offer social change services.
According to Callahan et al., (2012), there are eight features of social change and the features are classified into three categories. Knowledge category has scholarship, system thinking, and reflection. Skills category has; practice, collaboration, advocacy, and civic engagement. Lastly, the attitude category only features the humane ethics feature. From the eight social features these are the features that will be integrated most during the voluntary work at the disabled children agency. For instance reflection, practice, collaboration, advocacy, civic engagement, and human ethics would be integrated the most. The reason is that the project will require getting civically engaged because, I will be able to reflect from the lessons learned. Also, constant practice when offering voluntary services to these children will be of value in advocating for them since they are vulnerable. A way of demonstrating humane ethics is when you show that you value and care. According to Fullan, (2016), children with a disability requires special attention since they are children with special needs. This means when someone lacks humane ethics it can obstruct one from engaging in the service effectively. This makes human ethics a mandatory feature to apply during this project.
References
Fullan, M. (2016). The new meaning of educational change (5th ed.). New York, NY: Teachers College Press.
