Using a conversational voice, the authors provide a foundation as well as a blueprint and tools to craft a community-engaged course. Based on extensive research, the book provides a scope and sequence of information and skills ranging from an introduction to community engagement, to designing, implementing, and assessing a course, to advancing the craft to prepare for promotion and tenure as well as how to become a citizen-scholar and reflective practitioner. An interactive workbook that can be downloaded from Campus Compact accompanies this tool kit with interactive activities that are interspersed throughout the chapters. The book and workbook can be used by individual readers or with a learning community.
This text is a guide to what's involved in community-engaged learning, from understanding the pervasiveness of social, economic and environmental problems, to learning about how individuals and organizations in communities work to overcome ...
... development and from singular to multidimensional purposes. M.D. Sorcinelli, A.E. Austin, P.L. Eddy, and A.L. Beach, Creating the Future of Faculty Development Faculty developers—and the centers or offices with which we are affiliated ...
In this edited volume, the authors argue that past practice is inadequate and issue a mandate for a new approach to educator preparation.
This book helps administrators and educators at institutions of higher learning take serious steps to link their educational mission to helping their surrounding communities.
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Thirty-six of the best thinkers on family and community engagement were assembled to produce this Handbook, and they come to the task with varied backgrounds and lines of endeavor.
With contributions from leading experts across disciplinary fields, this book explores best practices from the field's most notable researchers, as well as important historically based and politically focused challenges to a field whose ...
The book is a compilation of elaborate examples of community engagement by faculty, students, community members and professionals that have integrated various methods in their courses to achieve higher levels of impact.
Discover how to engage your school’s community and help students achieve their full potential with this guide.
"Given the current and welcome surge of interest in improving student learning and success, this guide is a timely and important tool, sharply focused on practical strategies that can really matter.