Full Description
The role of educational developer in the realm of service-learning and community engagement (S-LCE) is multidimensional. Given the potentially transformational nature--for both faculty and students--of the experiences and courses in whose design they may be directly or indirectly involved, as well as their responsibility to the communities served by these initiatives, they have to be particularly attentive to issues of identity, values, and roles. As both practitioners and facilitators, they are often positioned as third-space professionals.This edited volume provides educational developers and community engagement professionals an analysis of approaches to faculty development around service-learning and community engagement. Using an openly self-reflective approach, the contributors to this volume offer an array of examples and models, as well as realistic strategies, to empower readers to evolve their faculty development efforts in service-learning and community engagement on their respective campuses. It is also a call for recognition that the practice of S-LCE needs to be institutionalized and improved. The book further addresses the field's potential contributions to scholarship, such as the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL), publicly engaged scholarship, and collaborative inquiry, among others.The case studies provide an outline of program models and promising practices, including an authentic analysis of the institutional context within which they operate, the positionality of the practitioner-scholars overseeing them, the resources required, and the evidence related to both successes and challenges of these approaches.The contributed chapters are organized under four themes: the landscape of faculty development and community engagement; models of faculty development in S-LCE; challenges and opportunities in pedagogy and partnerships; and engendering change in educational development.
Contents
Abbreviations Case Studies Forward—L. Dee Fink Preface—Emily A. Eddins and Patrick M. Green Exploring the Borderlands through Collaborative Inquiry. A Narrative Introduction—Patrick M. Green, Emily A. Eddins, Becca Berkey, and Cara Meixner Exploring the Borderlands through Collaborative Inquiry. A Narrative Introduction—Patrick M. Green, Emily A. Eddins, Becca Berkey, and Cara MeixnerPart One. The Landscape of Faculty Development and Community Engagement 1. A Holistic Framework for Educational Professional Development in Community Engagement—Marshall Welch and Star Plaxton-Moore 2. Faculty as Colearners. Collaborative Engagement and the Power of Story in Faculty Development—Timothy K. Eatman Part Two. Models of Faculty Development in Service-Learning/Community Engagement 3. Models and Genres of Faculty Development—Emily O. Gravett and Andreas Broscheid 4. Supporting Professional Development for Community Engagement. Three Institutional Case Studies—Amy Spring, Case studies contributed by Caile Spear, Kara Brascia, Mike Stefancic, Anna Bailey, Kristin English, Julia Metzker, Chavonda Mills, Sandra Godwin, Sherril B. Gelmon, Kevin Kecskes, Devorah Lieberman, and Leslie McBride 5. Learning Communities as a Creative Catalyst for Professional Development and Institutional Change—Star Plaxton-Moore, Julie Hatcher, Mary Price, Carey Borkoski, Vanya Jones, and Mindi Levin 6. Mission Driven, Low-Cost, Creative Practices—Ann E. Green, Ann Marie Jursca Keffer, Kim Jensen-Bohat, Melody A. Bowdon, and Amy Zeh 7. Dynamics on the Edge. Exploring Roles and Intersections of Service-Learning and Community Engagement and Educational Development—Cara Meixner, Becca Berkey, and Patrick M. Green Part Three. Challenges and Opportunities in Pedagogy and Partnerships 8. Special Pedagogical Considerations. Designing Learning in Service-Learning and Community Engagement—Chirag Variawa 9. The Intersection of Institutional Contexts and Faculty Development in Service-Learning and Community Engagement—Stephanie T. Stokamer 10. Reciprocity and Partnership. How Do We Know It Is Working?—Gabriel Ignacio Barreneche, Micki Meyer, and Scott Gross Part Four. Engendering Change in Educational Development 11. Connecting Service-Learning and Community Engagement Faculty Development to Community-Engaged Scholarship—Sherril B. Gelmon and Catherine M. Jordan 12. Innovative Considerations in Faculty Development and Service-Learning and Community Engagement. New Perspectives for the Future—Richard Kiely and Kathleen Sexsmith Editors and Contributors Index
