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Community Engagement Best Practices Across the Disciplines

Community Engagement Best Practices Across the Disciplines

Applying Course Content to Community Needs

von: Heather K. Evans

44,99 €

Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: EPUB
Veröffentl.: 15.11.2017
ISBN/EAN: 9781475830798
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 198

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Beschreibungen

Titelbeschreibung

<span><span>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. </span></span>
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<span><span>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. </span></span>
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<span><span>If you are not sure how to integrate community engagement in classes at your university, this book is for you.</span></span>

Titelkurzbeschreibung

<span><span>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.</span></span>

Inhaltsverzeichnis

<span><span>Acknowledgements</span></span>
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<span><span>Introduction- Heather K. Evans</span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 1: Planning Academic Community Engagement Courses- Sanjay Mehta and Irfan Ahmed</span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 2: Community Engagement in Honors First Year Experience: How to ACE the A’s- Maria Alexander Holmes and Glenn M. Sanford</span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 3: Academic Community Engagement Strategies in Homeland Security and Emergency Management Programs at a Texas University- Magdalena Denham</span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 4: The Bilingual Workplace Writing Classroom: Meeting Community Literacy Needs- Isabel Baca</span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 5: Teaching Research for a Greater Purpose: Incorporating Community Engagement into a Graduate Qualitative Research Methods Course- Sarah Upton and Brenda Luna Bravo</span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 6: Connecting with Art: Building and Enhancing Culture through Academic Community Engagement- Michael Henderson</span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 7: Beyond Geographic Space: Online Learning and Community Engagement Initiatives- Ricardo Montelongo and Paul William Eaton</span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 8: Preparing Undergraduates for Public Service in Local Government- Michael T. Peddle and Eric S. Zeemering</span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 9: Civic Engagement as Public Sociology: Considerations for Pedagogy and Practice- Laura O-Toole</span></span>
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<span><span>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</span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 11: Project-Based Learning: A Structure to Facilitate Service Learning in an Online, Interdisciplinary Project- Li-Jen Shannon and Marilyn Rice</span></span>
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<span><span>Appendix A: Honors FYE ACE Course Calendar</span></span>
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<span><span>Appendix B: Excerpts from Course Syllabus</span><span> </span></span>
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<span><span>Appendix C: Agency Profile of Literacy Needs</span></span>
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<span><span>About the Editor</span></span>
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<span><span>About the Contributors<br></span></span>

Autorenportrait

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