Civic Engagement Pedagogy in the Community College Theory and Practice [Hardcover]

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.

Introduction by Emily Schnee, Alison Better and Martha Clark Cummings.- Part I: Social Structures and Student Agency.- Introduction to Part I by Alison Better.- Community College as a Site for Community Organizing: A Model for Facilitating Social Justice Engagement by Stuart Parker.- Disrupting the Dream: Teaching Civil Rights History at a 21^st Century Community College by Debra Schultz.- The Political is Personal: Public Sociology and Social Change through Community Engagement by Alison Better.- Supporting Critical Civic Learning with Interactive Technology by Jason Leggett.- Part II: Civic Engagement within the Disciplines.- Introduction to Part II by Emily Schnee.- What Does this Have to Do with Psychology?: Challenges and Possibilities of Civic Engagement in Introduction to Psychology by Jason VanOra.- Incorporating Civic Engagement in the Human Anatomy and Physiology Course by Anna Rozenboym.- Creating Civically Engaged Writing in a Cross-Cultural Teacher Education Class: Challenges and Possibilities by Laura Kates.- Personal Connection and Formal Research: Community Collegl“„