Civic Engagement Pedagogy in the Community College: Theory and Practice

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   • Emily Schnee, Alison Better, Martha Clark Cummings

   Pages 1-7

3. Social Structures and Student Agency

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Community Colleges as a Site for Community Organizing: A Model for Facilitating Social Justice Engagement

      • Stuart Parker

      Pages 11-31

   3. Disrupting the Dream: Teaching Civil Rights History at a Twenty-First Century Community College

      • Debra L. Schultz

      Pages 33-52

   4. The Political Is Personal: Public Sociology and Social Change Through Community Engagement

      • Alison Better

      Pages 53-69

   5. Supporting Critical Civic Learning with Interactive Technology

      • Jason Leggett

      Pages 71-91

4. Civic Engagement Within the Disciplines

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 93-94

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   2. What Does This Have to Do with Psychology?: Challenges and Possibilities of Civic Engagement in Introduction to Psychology

      • Jason VanOra

      Pages 95-113

   3. Incorporating Civic Engagement in the Human Anatomy and Physiology Course

      • Anna V. Rozenboym

      Pages 115-132

   4. Creating Civically Engaged Writing in a Cross-Cultural Teacher Education Class: Challenges and Possibilities

      • Laura Kates

      Pages 133-150

   5. Personal Connection and Formal Research: Community College Students Develop Multicultural Counseling Competency

      • Michelle Billies, F. M. Catheleen Heyliger

      Pages 151-170

   6. Addressing Civic Issues in Biology Lab Through Citizen Science

      • Christina P. Colón

      Pages 171-187

   7. Undocumented Immigrants and Myself: Building Bridges Through Research in a First Year English Course

      • Tisha Ulmer

      Pages 189-201

5. College as Community

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Learning About Community in a First Semester Learning Community: How Community Based Projects Strengthen Student Engagement

      • George J. Hill

      Pages 205-222

   3. Engaging Students in the Community of College

      • Emily Schnee

      Pages 223-234

   4. From Discontent to Civic Engagement in an ESL Learning Community

      • Martha Clark Cummings

      Pages 235-246

   5. Developing Effective Service Learning Campus-Community Partnerships

      • Peter Fiume

      Pages 247-264

6. Back Matter

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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.

• academic achievement through civic engagement
• civic engagement and equity
• civic engagement in the classroom
• civically engaged curriculum development
• community based projects in a freshman seminar
• critical civic engagement
• educational policy and community-engaged research
• engaging students in the community of college
• examine social issues through students' lived experiences
• high stakes testing and teacher education
• implementation of civic engagement projects
• multicultural perspective on mental health education
• public scholarship at community colleges
• student agency and social structures
• urban education and designing the just city

Civic Engagement Pedagogy in the Community College arrives in a timely fashion. Community colleges serve diverse students in a vibrant microcosm of their surrounding local neighborhoods. These institutions have become a fiscally attractive option as college tuition and loan interest rates soar. In fact, President Barak Obama has even introduced a proposal to provide free tuition for community college students. Responding to the inherent value of these educational epicenters, these authors explore collective academic and social spaces in an urban community college. In their research, constructs of community and communal alliances are investigated and imagined. Using an interdisciplinary approach, these scholars blend theory and practice, inspiring students and educators to reconceptualize civic engagement on college campuses and in local communities. Kathleen Nichols, PhD, Assistant Professor of Educational Studies at Ripon College

• English Department, City University of N, Kingsborough Community College English Department, City University of N, Brooklyn, USA

  Emily Schnee

• Dept. of Behavioral Sci. and Human Servi, Kingsborough Community College Dept. of Behavioral Sci. and Human Servi, Brooklyn, USA

  Alison Better

• English Department, City Uni. of NY, Kingsborough Community College English Department, City Uni. of NY, Brooklyn, USA

  Martha Clark Cummings

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