Full Description
Rooted in the work of community - school collaborations, this text focuses on connecting the rigors of the classroom with the ambiguity of lived community experience. Community-Based Transformational Learning (CBTL) draws on the increasing evidence that course-learning conducted in an applied, community setting, can positively transform students' professional and personal identity and creates new ways of thinking and working in university courses and pre-professional experiences.
To illustrate the different ways to successfully implement community-based learning, examples are provided of experiences integrated in courses across multiple disciplines across an American university whose mission is focused on teaching. Topics covered include refugee and immigration transition issues, incarceration and health needs with international examples of community experiences from Jamaica, Korea and Belize. Qualitative and quantitative data depict how these experiences impact students and each chapter presents how community engagement has been established as an effective approach in the different disciplines, including computer science and sports management. The authors demonstrate how CBTL experiences can be transformative when students are provided a chance to connect the academic commitment to community aims, but also provides suggestions for overcoming challenges and pit-falls in developing these experiences.
Contents
Series Editors Foreword
1. Introduction
Part I: First Year Experiences
2. Refugee and Immigration Transition Issues
3. Community Garden
4. Incarceration
5. Health Needs
Part II: Upper Level Intensive Experiences
6. Computer Science
7. Federal Funded Preschool
8. Criminal Justice System
9. Public Health
Part III: Program-Wide Integrated Experiences
10. Youth Mentoring
11. Instructional Technology
12. Sports Management
Part IV: Intensive International Community Experiences
13. Jamaica
14. Korea
15. Belize
Part V: Conclusion
16. Summary
Index
