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This book helps administrators and educators at institutions of higher learning take serious steps to link their educational mission to helping their surrounding communities. It provides a multi-disciplinary and multi-method approach to incorporating the effects of community engagement (service learning) in the curriculum.
List of contents
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
About the author
Edited by Heather K. Evans
