Community Engagement in Christian Higher Education

Enacting Institutional Mission for the Public Good
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-0-367-62052-3
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 234 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 496 g

Reihe: Routledge Research in Higher Education

Originally published as a special issue of Christian Higher Education, this volume showcases diverse forms of community engagement work carried out by faith-based colleges and universities throughout the US.

Acknowledging the rise of community engagement as a contemporary expression of a longstanding civic impulse, Community Engagement in Christian Higher Education explores how religious mission and identity animate institutional practice across various forms of Catholic and Protestant Higher Education. Offering perspectives from faculty members, administrators, and community partners at nine different US institutions, chapters highlight effective initiatives that have been actively implemented in rural, urban, and suburban contexts to meet local needs and serve the public good. With a focus on practical community work, the text demonstrates the very concrete ways in which Christian values can inform and foster community engagement.

This volume will be of interest to scholar-practitioners, researchers, and academics in the fields of higher education, sociology of education, religious education, and practical theology. More broadly, the text offers important insights for faith leaders and the faculty of faith-based institutions exploring issues of community, identity, and shared purpose.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rine, P. Jesse

Quiñones, Sandra

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Community Care, Bildung, Freizeit, Freiwilligenarbeit
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Philosophie der Erziehung, Bildungstheorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungssystem
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Universitäten, Hochschulen
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungswesen: Organisation und Verwaltung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Doing Justice, Loving Kindness, Walking Humbly: Christian Approaches to Community Engagement

P. Jesse Rine and Sandra Quiñones

1. Mission Animation: Christian Higher Education, the Common Good, and Community Engagement

Jessica Mann

2. Re-membering the Mission: Institutional Impacts of an Interdisciplinary Community

Outreach Project

David R. Tillman and Brian K. Foreman

3. Reconciling Structural and Personal Expressions of Justice in Jesuit Education

Bryan W. Sokol, Leah Sweetman, Bobby Wassel, Christopher Franco, and

Tim Huffman

4. Pursuing Social Justice through Place-Based Community Engagement: Cultivating Applied

Creativity, Transdisciplinarity, and Reciprocity in Catholic Higher Education

Brian LaDuca, Charlie Carroll, Adrienne Ausdenmoore, and Justin Keen

5. Community Engagement for Student Faith Development: Service-Learning in the

Pentecostal Tradition

Carolyn Dirksen

6. Becoming People for and with Others: Advancing Social Justice through Interdisciplinary

Study and Service in the Jesuit Tradition

Andrew F. Miller, Ana M. Martínez Alemán, and Meghan T. Sweeney

7. Faith in Action and Community Engagement: Realizing Mission through Immersion

Experiences

Christopher D. Tirres and Melanie C. Schikore

8. What Does it Mean to be an Engaged Institutional Neighbor?: A Self-Study of an

Undergraduate Program in Ministry and Community Engagement

Cassie J. E. H. Trentaz

9. Equipping Students for a "Specific Uprising" Toward Justice: Lessons Learned from a

University Prison Initiative

Todd Cioffi, Andrew F. Haggerty, and Jeffrey P. Bouman

Conclusion
Community Engagement in Christian Higher Education: Purposes and Possibilities

P. Jesse Rine and Sandra Quiñones

Über Autor(innen)

P. Jesse Rine is Associate Professor of Higher Education and Director of the Master of Science Program in Higher Education Administration in the School of Education, Duquesne University, USA.

Sandra Quiñones is Associate Professor of Literacy Education and Director of the Professional Doctorate Program in Educational Technology in the School of Education, Duquesne University, USA.