Overview
- Builds on growing scholarship calling for "student-centered" approaches to pedagogy Provides a historical overview of community colleges and their relevance in the higher education landscape nationally.
- Includes engaging chapters featuring student written work, e-mail correspondence, and art work
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Beginnings
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Front Matter
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The First Day of Class
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The Semester Unfolds
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Front Matter
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Outside the Classroom
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About this book
This book provides scholars, educators, and legislators with a personal, classroom-level tour of daily life at a community college. Readers will accompany the author into the classroom as he goes about his work as an English teacher meeting with classes and corresponding with students on Blackboard and e-mail. Answering the call for ”student-centered scholarship,” this book blends traditional academic writing with chapters that feature a rich variety of student work, including essays, journal entries, poems, art, and responses to creative assignments. In this volume, Sullivan theorizes the modern community college as a social justice institution. By mission and mandate, the modern community college has democratized America’s system of higher education and distributed hope, equity, and opportunity more broadly across the nation.
Reviews
—Brett M. Griffiths, Director, Reading and Writing Studios and Learning Centers, Macomb Community College, USA
“Nobody in English or Writing Studies is more accomplished regarding the community college than Pat Sullivan. He has taught for thirty years and has written consistently and eloquently about his work and the work of the community college.”
—Mike Rose, Research Professor, Graduate School of Education, University of California, Los Angeles, USA, and author of Back to School: Why Everyone Deserves a Second Chance at Education (2012) and Lives on the Boundary (1989)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Patrick Sullivan is Professor of English at Manchester Community College, Connecticutt, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Democracy, Social Justice, and the American Community College
Book Subtitle: A Student-Centered Perspective
Authors: Patrick Sullivan
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-75560-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-75559-1Published: 18 July 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-75562-1Published: 19 July 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-75560-7Published: 17 July 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 323
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations, 17 illustrations in colour
Topics: Higher Education, Education, general, Educational Policy and Politics, Literacy