{"id":1333,"date":"2021-09-24T16:08:11","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T20:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.butler.edu\/academic-services\/citizenship-community\/initiatives-listening\/"},"modified":"2024-01-19T09:26:32","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T14:26:32","slug":"initiatives-listening","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.butler.edu\/academic-services\/citizenship-community\/initiatives-listening\/","title":{"rendered":"Critical Listening and Community Engagement"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"wysiwyg wysiwyg-primary-block alignfull\" >\n\t<div class=\"container grid-default wysiwyg__container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<nav class=\"sidebar-menu \" aria-label=\"Site Menu\" id=\"page-nav\">\n\t\t<div class=\"sidebar-menu__wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<header class=\"sidebar-menu__header\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"sidebar-menu__headerLabel\">Center for Citizenship and Community Menu<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<button class=\"sidebar-menu__mobileToggle\" title=\"Toggle Menu\" :aria-expanded=\"mobileOpen\"><\/button>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/header>\n\n\t\t\t<ul class=\"sidebar-menu__list\" v-show=\"mobileOpen\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li class=\"sidebar-menu__listItem initial-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"\/academic-services\/citizenship-community\/philosophy\" class=\"sidebar-menu__listLink\" >CCC Philosophy<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li class=\"sidebar-menu__listItem initial-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"\/academic-services\/citizenship-community\/history\" class=\"sidebar-menu__listLink\" >CCC History<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li class=\"sidebar-menu__listItem initial-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"\/academic-services\/citizenship-community\/student-success\" class=\"sidebar-menu__listLink\" >Student Success Stories<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li class=\"sidebar-menu__listItem initial-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"\/academic-services\/citizenship-community\/initiatives-indianapolis-community-requirement\" class=\"sidebar-menu__listLink\" >Indianapolis Community Requirement (ICR)<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li class=\"sidebar-menu__listItem initial-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"\/academic-services\/citizenship-community\/student-stories\" class=\"sidebar-menu__listLink\" >Stories of Student Engagement<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li class=\"sidebar-menu__listItem initial-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.butler.edu\/academic-services\/citizenship-community\/students\/\" class=\"sidebar-menu__listLink\" >For Students<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li class=\"sidebar-menu__listItem initial-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.butler.edu\/academic-services\/citizenship-community\/faculty\/\" class=\"sidebar-menu__listLink\" >For Faculty<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li class=\"sidebar-menu__listItem initial-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.butler.edu\/academic-services\/citizenship-community\/partnerships\/\" class=\"sidebar-menu__listLink\" >For Community<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li class=\"sidebar-menu__listItem hide-overflow\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"\/academic-services\/citizenship-community\/initiatives-listening\" class=\"sidebar-menu__listLink\" >Critical Listening Initiative<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li class=\"sidebar-menu__listItem hide-overflow\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"\/academic-services\/citizenship-community\/initiatives-music\" class=\"sidebar-menu__listLink\" >Music &amp; Memory Initiative<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li class=\"sidebar-menu__listItem hide-overflow\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.butler.edu\/academic-services\/citizenship-community\/initiatives-listening-2\/\" class=\"sidebar-menu__listLink\" >Immigrant &amp; Refugee Partnerships<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<button class=\"sidebar-menu__desktopToggle\" v-text=\"desktopLabel\" :aria-expanded=\"desktopOpen\">More Links<\/button>\n\t\t\t<\/nav>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wysiwyg__wrapper wysiwyg__wrapper--hasSidebar\">\n\t\t\t<!-- content from editor -->\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wysiwyg__content wysiwyg__contentContainer\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"acf-innerblocks-container\"><h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Critical Listening and Community Engagement<\/h1><p>As one model for Indianapolis Community Requirement courses, the CCC has developed ethnographic research projects wherein Butler students interview individuals from diverse Indianapolis communities. These projects are all part of the CCC&#8217;s Critical Listening initiative that creates face-to-face opportunities within Butler&#8217;s academic curriculum wherein Butler students can engage with the stories and lives of individuals beyond the Butler campus and thereby learn and improve critical listening skills-skills. As critical listening informs our capacity for empathy and respect, it is an essential skill for civic mindedness and citizenship.<\/p><p><strong>Immigrant Welcome Center Natural Helpers<\/strong><strong><br\/><\/strong>In one project students document the life stories of &#8220;Natural Helpers&#8221; associated with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrantwelcomecenter.org\/\">Immigrant Welcome Center<\/a>. Natural Helpers are often earlier immigrants and refugees who serve within local immigrant and refugee communities. Natural Helpers function as knowledgeable insiders who have elected to receive training to assist with welcoming newcomers and helping them access resources and services as they adjust to living in a new environment.<\/p><p><strong>Immigrant and Refugee Service Corps (IRSC)<br\/><\/strong>Headquartered in Indianapolis, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.butler.edu\/academic-services\/citizenship-community\/initiatives-listening-2\/\">Immigrant and Refugee Service Corps (IRSC)<\/a> disperses members into a variety of non-for-profit sites that work directly and indirectly with local immigrant and refugee communities. Students are able to interview IRSC members and learn more about the importance of service in their daily lives.<\/p><p><strong>Martin Luther King Community Center<br\/><\/strong>Through their academic work in a number of different classes, Butler students have interviewed grandparents raising grandchildren at the Second Time Around program sponsored by the <a href=\"http:\/\/mlkcenterindy.org\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Martin Luther King Community Center<\/a>. These interviews have revealed stories of the strength and resilience of grandparents who have assumed primary responsibility for raising grandchildren.<\/p><p><strong>Nur-Allah Islamic Center<br\/><\/strong>Butler has a long-term relationship with the <a href=\"http:\/\/nurallah.org\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nur-Allah Islamic Center<\/a>, a Muslim community with a sixty-year history in Indianapolis. Students have partnered with the congregants at the center to help record their history and experiences and to participate in interfaith dialog on a wide range of issues. Many Butler students involved in this process highlight the insights they have gleaned from their interactions and speak of the warm community at the center.<\/p><\/div>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"parent":1309,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1333","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"revision_note":"","acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.2 (Yoast SEO v26.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Critical Listening and Community Engagement | Butler University<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.butler.edu\/academic-services\/citizenship-community\/initiatives-listening\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Critical Listening and Community Engagement\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.butler.edu\/academic-services\/citizenship-community\/initiatives-listening\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Academic Services\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/butleruniversity\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-01-19T14:26:32+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/08093117\/butler-social.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"630\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@butleru\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.butler.edu\/academic-services\/citizenship-community\/initiatives-listening\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.butler.edu\/academic-services\/citizenship-community\/initiatives-listening\/\",\"name\":\"Critical Listening and Community Engagement | Butler University\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.butler.edu\/academic-services\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2021-09-24T20:08:11+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-01-19T14:26:32+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.butler.edu\/academic-services\/citizenship-community\/initiatives-listening\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.butler.edu\/academic-services\/citizenship-community\/initiatives-listening\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.butler.edu\/academic-services\/citizenship-community\/initiatives-listening\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.butler.edu\/academic-services\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Center for Citizenship &amp; 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