Full Description
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.
Contents
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
