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History The GoodWork® Project is a large scale, multi-site effort to identify individuals and institutions that exemplify good work--work that is excellent in quality, socially responsible, and meaningful to its practitioners--and to determine how best to increase the incidence of good work in our society. Led by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, William Damon, and Howard Gardner, the project began as a social scientific investigation of how members of different professions approach their work at a time when circumstances change rapidly and few if any forces exist to counter overwhelming market forces. From 1996 to 2006, members of the research team conducted over 1200 interviews with leading professionals and our findings have been reported in numerous books, articles, and papers.
Current Projects While we continue to write and speak about good work, at present most of our attention is focused on a series of new research initiatives the application of our ideas; and the expansion of successful initiatives.The Civic Trust Among Young Immigrants Project seeks to understand how today’s immigrant youth perceive, trust (or distrust), and engage with key civic institutions. This project is carried out in conjunction with Carola and Marcelo Suarez-Orozco at New York University. Contact: Carrie James, Research Director. The Collaboration Study seeks to understand factors that contribute to successful collaborations and those which compromise collaborative work. Contacts: Wendy Fischman, Project Manager; Lynn Barendsen, Project Manager. The Developing Minds and Digital Media Project (also known as DM2) is a study of the myriad ways in which “new digital media”—such as the internet, cell phones, and the like—influence the culture, psychology, and creativity of young people and of adolescence as a developmental phase. Contact: Katie Davis, Project Specialist. The Good Participation Project seeks to explore forms of contemporary youth civic and political participation, and to discern broader notions of citizenship held by contemporary youth. Contact: Carrie James, Research Director. The GoodPlay Project explores the ethical character of young people’s activities in the new digital media. Contact: Carrie James, Research Director. The GoodWork® Toolkit is a Guidebook and a set of Narratives and Value Sort Cards designed to inspire conversation and reflection about excellent, ethical, and engaging work. The primary purpose of the Toolkit is to engage individuals in reflective questions that all professionals should consider. Contacts: Wendy Fischman, Project Manager; Lynn Barendsen, Project Manager. The Quality Project seeks to understand what quality looks like and how it is judged in a fast-paced world where goods and experiences are readily available and accessible to so many individuals. Contacts: Wendy Fischman, Project Manager; Lynn Barendsen, Project Manager. The Trust & Trustworthiness Project is exploring how young people think of issues of trust and the role, if any, that trust plays when young people consider their goals as they carry out their school work, participate in different communities, and eventually take on new roles and responsibilities—particularly civic ones—in the broader society. Contact: Carrie James, Research Director.
For more details about current and past projects, visit http://www.goodworkproject.org/ |
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