The Cambridge Handbook of Service Learning and Community Engagement (Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1316607798 ISBN 13: 9781316607794

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2019

Synopsis

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 impact has reached an important crossroads. The comprehensive and powerfully critical analysis considers the history of community engagement and service learning, best teaching practices and pedagogies, engagement across disciplines, and current research and policies - and contemplates the future of the field. The book will not only inform faculty, staff, and students on ways to improve their work, but also suggest a bigger social and political focus for programs intended to seriously establish democracy and social justice in their communities and campuses.

About this title

Book Description

This book is for administrators, staff, faculty, and students who are interested in service learning, community engagement, and ways in which engaged teaching and scholarship can effect social change. Community organizations and non-profits will also benefit from thinking about ways they can partner with educational institutions to create local change.

About the Author

Corey Dolgon has published numerous articles and a text on service learning in sociology. His work The End of the Hamptons: Scenes from the Class Struggle in America's Paradise (2006) won the Best Book Award from the Association for Humanist Sociology and the American Sociological Association, Marxist Section.

Tania D. Mitchell is an assistant professor of higher education in the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Minnesota. Her teaching and research focuses on service learning as a critical pedagogy to explore civic identity, social justice, student learning and development, race and racism, and community practice. Dr Mitchell is a recipient of the Early Career Research Award from the International Association for Research in Service-Learning and Community Engagement (IARSLCE) and the American Fellowship from the American Association of University Women.

Timothy K. Eatman holds a faculty appointment in the Higher Education department in the School of Education at Syracuse University, New York and is also currently serving as Faculty Co-Director of Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life (IA). He is co-author of 'Scholarship in Public: Knowledge Creation and Tenure Policy in the Engaged University', a seminal IA research report on faculty rewards and publicly engaged scholarship. Professor Eatman sat on the 2015 Advisory Panel for the Carnegie Engagement Classification for Community Engagement and is currently serving as the inaugural Seletz Visiting Civic Fellow at Widener University, Pennsylvania.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1316607798
• ISBN 13: 9781316607794
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 574
• Editor: Dolgon Corey, Mitchell Tania D., Eatman Timothy K.