This book is a reference to administrators and educators at institutions of higher learning who are thinking about taking serious steps to link their educational mission to helping their surrounding communities. Various best practices across the disciplines in higher education about integrating community engagement in traditional coursework are presented. This book provides a multi-disciplinary and multi-method approach to incorporating the effects of community engagement (service learning) in the curriculum. Multiple departments from Art to Statistics, as well as various types of classes…mehr
This book is a reference to administrators and educators at institutions of higher learning who are thinking about taking serious steps to link their educational mission to helping their surrounding communities. Various best practices across the disciplines in higher education about integrating community engagement in traditional coursework are presented. This book provides a multi-disciplinary and multi-method approach to incorporating the effects of community engagement (service learning) in the curriculum. Multiple departments from Art to Statistics, as well as various types of classes (undergraduate, graduate, online, face-to-face) are represented here. If you are not sure how to integrate community engagement in classes at your university, this book is for you.
Acknowledgements Introduction- Heather K. Evans Chapter 1: Planning Academic Community Engagement Courses- Sanjay Mehta and Irfan Ahmed Chapter 2: Community Engagement in Honors First Year Experience: How to ACE the A's- Maria Alexander Holmes and Glenn M. Sanford Chapter 3: Academic Community Engagement Strategies in Homeland Security and Emergency Management Programs at a Texas University- Magdalena Denham Chapter 4: The Bilingual Workplace Writing Classroom: Meeting Community Literacy Needs- Isabel Baca Chapter 5: Teaching Research for a Greater Purpose: Incorporating Community Engagement into a Graduate Qualitative Research Methods Course- Sarah Upton and Brenda Luna Bravo Chapter 6: Connecting with Art: Building and Enhancing Culture through Academic Community Engagement- Michael Henderson Chapter 7: Beyond Geographic Space: Online Learning and Community Engagement Initiatives- Ricardo Montelongo and Paul William Eaton Chapter 8: Preparing Undergraduates for Public Service in Local Government- Michael T. Peddle and Eric S. Zeemering Chapter 9: Civic Engagement as Public Sociology: Considerations for Pedagogy and Practice- Laura O-Toole Chapter 10: Seeing Community Needs through a Statistical Lens: Undergraduate and graduate Level Consulting with Community Organizations in the El Paso Border Region- Amy Wagler, Craig Field, and Erik Baray Chapter 11: Project-Based Learning: A Structure to Facilitate Service Learning in an Online, Interdisciplinary Project- Li-Jen Shannon and Marilyn Rice Appendix A: Honors FYE ACE Course Calendar Appendix B: Excerpts from Course Syllabus Appendix C: Agency Profile of Literacy Needs About the Editor About the Contributors
Acknowledgements Introduction- Heather K. Evans Chapter 1: Planning Academic Community Engagement Courses- Sanjay Mehta and Irfan Ahmed Chapter 2: Community Engagement in Honors First Year Experience: How to ACE the A's- Maria Alexander Holmes and Glenn M. Sanford Chapter 3: Academic Community Engagement Strategies in Homeland Security and Emergency Management Programs at a Texas University- Magdalena Denham Chapter 4: The Bilingual Workplace Writing Classroom: Meeting Community Literacy Needs- Isabel Baca Chapter 5: Teaching Research for a Greater Purpose: Incorporating Community Engagement into a Graduate Qualitative Research Methods Course- Sarah Upton and Brenda Luna Bravo Chapter 6: Connecting with Art: Building and Enhancing Culture through Academic Community Engagement- Michael Henderson Chapter 7: Beyond Geographic Space: Online Learning and Community Engagement Initiatives- Ricardo Montelongo and Paul William Eaton Chapter 8: Preparing Undergraduates for Public Service in Local Government- Michael T. Peddle and Eric S. Zeemering Chapter 9: Civic Engagement as Public Sociology: Considerations for Pedagogy and Practice- Laura O-Toole Chapter 10: Seeing Community Needs through a Statistical Lens: Undergraduate and graduate Level Consulting with Community Organizations in the El Paso Border Region- Amy Wagler, Craig Field, and Erik Baray Chapter 11: Project-Based Learning: A Structure to Facilitate Service Learning in an Online, Interdisciplinary Project- Li-Jen Shannon and Marilyn Rice Appendix A: Honors FYE ACE Course Calendar Appendix B: Excerpts from Course Syllabus Appendix C: Agency Profile of Literacy Needs About the Editor About the Contributors
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