Civic Engagement Pedagogy in the Community College: Theory and Practice

This book will help post-secondary educators to discover the joys and challenges of implementing theoretically grounded civic engagement projects on their campuses. The essays on civic engagement and public scholarship are written by an interdisciplinary group of community college faculty who have designed and implemented civic engagement projects in their classrooms. The projects they describe stand at the intersection of research, theory and pedagogy. They challenge dominant constructions of civic engagement as students bring their community, culture and history into the classroom. The authors consider the particular complexities and constraints of doing civically engaged teaching and scholarship at the community college level and situate their projects within current theoretical debates about civic engagement, public scholarship, and public higher education.

Summary

This book will help post-secondary educators to discover the joys and challenges of implementing theoretically grounded civic engagement projects on their campuses. The essays on civic engagement and public scholarship are written by an interdisciplinary group of community college faculty who have designed and implemented civic engagement projects in their classrooms. The projects they describe stand at the intersection of research, theory and pedagogy. They challenge dominant constructions of civic engagement as students bring their community, culture and history into the classroom. The authors consider the particular complexities and constraints of doing civically engaged teaching and scholarship at the community college level and situate their projects within current theoretical debates about civic engagement, public scholarship, and public higher education.

Product details

• Assisted by: Alison Better (Editor), Martha Clark Cummings (Editor), Emily Schnee (Editor), Aliso Better (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 01.01.2016
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system
• EAN: 9783319363103
• ISBN: 978-3-31-936310-3
• Pages: 268
• Illustrations: XX, 268 p.
• Dimensions (packing): 15.5 x 1.5 x 23.5 cm
• Weight (packing): 444 g
• Series: Education, Equity, Economy > .3; Education, Equity, Economy
• Subjects: B, Curricula: Planung und Entwicklung, Hochschulbildung, Fort- und Weiterbildung, Educational Policy, Education, Teaching, Lehrerausbildung, teacher training, higher education, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Teaching and Teacher Education, Educational Policy and Politics, Education and state, Education—Curricula, Curriculum planning & development, Curriculums (Courses of study), Curriculum Studies, urban education and designing the just city