List of Figures List of Tables Foreword--Christopher Nayve Land Acknowledgments Positionality Statement List of Teaching Tips Introduction 1. Common Purposes 2. Community Engagement Excellence Pedagogical Component One. Cultivate 3. Co-Educational Partnerships 4. Cross-Cultural Collaborations Pedagogical Component Two. Create 5. Course Design 6. COIL and Virtual Exchange Courses Pedagogical Component Three. Craft 7. Communities of Learning, Leadership, and Empowerment 8. Critical Engagement and Conscientization Pedagogical Component Four. Compose 9. Community Engaged Scholarship 10. Course Iteration and Equity-Centered Continuation About the Authors Index
This is a practical guide to designing, teaching, and coordinating service-learning courses, and for developing reciprocal community partnerships and community-based research through a lens of equity that addresses the endemic racial, social, economic, and environmental disparities across society.
Christine M. Cress is Professor of Educational Leadership, Higher Education Policy, and Community Engagement at Portland State University. She received her Ph.D. from UCLA and was a Fulbright Senior Scholar at Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey. She has conducted professional trainings on curricular integration and the scholarship of service-learning at scores of colleges in North America, Europe, Japan, India, and Nepal. Earlier in her career, she was an academic and career adviser at Western Washington University, Whatcom Community College, and Northwest Indian College. For the last twenty years at PSU, she has directed Master and Doctoral degrees and a fully on-line Graduate Certificate in Service-Learning including facilitation of short-term international service-learning and COIL/Virtual Exchange classes in India, Japan, Morocco, and Turkey. Her cultural privilege is primarily northern European American with Cherokee (non-tribal affiliation) and Sl£;