Community Engagement Best Practices Across the Disciplines (eBook, ePUB)

Applying Course Content to Community Needs
Redaktion: Evans, Heather K.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781475830798
• Artikelnr.: 49987288

Autorenporträt

Heather K. Evans is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Sam Houston State University. Her research interests include political engagement, elections, public opinion, and political communication.

Inhaltsangabe

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