A comprehensive look at service learning and community engagement including history, best practices, disciplinary approaches, institutional policies, and critical perspectives.
A comprehensive look at service learning and community engagement including history, best practices, disciplinary approaches, institutional policies, ...
This book outlines how undergraduate students engage with civic and community projects and how this can be encouraged by their universities. It also explores how universities can build on this involvement and develop undergraduates' civic and democratic capacities, including programmatic strategies and conceptual frameworks for understanding the students' activities. As higher education across the globe experiences increasing student numbers it is important to understand how students engage with civic and community service.
This book outlines how undergraduate students engage with civic and community projects and how this can be encouraged by their universities. It also e...
In this edited volume, authors explore the ways in which departments, programs, and centers at public research universities are working to better engage students in the work of citizenship and social justice. The chapters in this book illuminate the possibilities and challenges for developing community engagement experiences and provide evidence of the effects of these efforts on communities and undergraduate students' development of citizenship outcomes. This text reveals how important the integration of our intentions and actions are to create a community engaged practice aimed towards...
In this edited volume, authors explore the ways in which departments, programs, and centers at public research universities are working to better enga...