Reframing Community Engagement in Higher Education

1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-032-58143-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 270 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 549 g

This timely book addresses assumptions and challenges inherent within community engagement as a catalyst for developing students’ sense of civic responsibility at a time of rampant social polarization.

Promoting academic development and life skills through the high-impact practice of service-learning, the book explores a new ecological framework for reflecting on and improving practice. This book describes new models such as the #CaliforniansForAll College Corps, offers advice on coalition building, and presents the narratives of community-engaged professionals and faculty, offering a sense both of tensions inherent in this work and examples of initiatives in local contexts. Chapters primarily reflect on what action is required for fulfilling our public purpose and what’s holding us back.

This book provides guidance, examples, and benchmarks for best practices in community engagement that are particularly relevant to this time of crises and unrest and will be relevant to community-engaged professionals, higher education faculty, and college administrators.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Klaw, Elena

Tully, Andrea

Ikeda, Elaine K.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Universitäten, Hochschulen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction PART 1: Enacting Social Justice: Current Contexts and Community Engagement 2. Community Engagement Strategies for Responding to Sociopolitical and Racial Challenges Facing American Society and Higher Education  3. Mapping our Capacities to Facilitate Change: Applying the Ecosystem of Critical Feminist Praxis for Community Engagement Professionals  4. Reclaiming the Mission of the Community College: Civic, Community, and Political Equity Reimagined  5. Social Media and Youth Climate Activism: Community Engaged Learning for the 2020s  PART 2: Building a Movement: Establishing Infrastructure for Community Engagement 6. Coalition Building for Transformation and Change in Higher Education  7. And So Goes The Nation: California Gets To Work  8. A Presidential Perspective: Place-Based Community Engagement in Faith-Based Higher Education  PART 3: Reconceptualizing Roles: Faculty, Staff and Partnerships in Community Engagement 9. Community Engagement Professionals and Transformational Education  10. The Tensions and Rewards of Community Engagement for Faculty Members  11. Community-Engaged Partnerships When Healthy Relationships are The Priority  12. Ode to Education that Lifts Us Higher  13. Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Elena Klaw is Professor of Psychology and the Faculty Director of the Center for Community Learning and Leadership at San José State University, USA.

Andrea Tully is Assistant Director of the Center for Community Learning and Leadership at San José State University, USA.

Elaine K. Ikeda is Executive Director of LEAD California, USA.