Community engagement best practices across the disciplines : applying course content to community needs

Evans, Heather K., (editor.).

Record details

ISBN: 9781475830729
ISBN: 1475830726
ISBN: 9781475830781
ISBN: 1475830785
Physical Description: print
xii, 186 pages ; 24 cm
Publisher: Lahnam, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2018]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Planning academic community engagement courses / Sanjay Mehta and Irfan Ahmed -- Community engagement in honors first year experience : how to ACE the A's / Maria Alexander Holmes and Glenn M. Sanford -- Academic community engagement strategies in homeland security and emergency management programs at a Texas university / Magdalena Denham -- The bilingual workplace writing classroom : meeting community literacy needs / Isabel Baca -- Teaching research for a greater purpose : incorporating community engagement into a graduate qualitative research methods course / Sarah Upton and Brenda Luna Bravo -- Connecting with art : building and enhancing clture through academic community engagement / Michael Henderson -- Beyond geographic space : online learning and community engagement initiatives / Ricardo Montelongo and Paul William Eaton -- Preparing undergraduates for public service in local government / Michael T. Peddle and Eric S. Zeemering -- Civic engagement as public sociology : considerations for pedagogy and practice / Laura O-Toole -- Seeing community needs through a statistical lens : undergraduate and graduate level consulting with community organizations in the El Paso border region / Amy Wagler, Craig Field, and Erik Baray -- Project-based learning : a structure to facilitate service learning in an online, interdisciplinary project / Li-Jen Shannon and Marilyn Rice -- Appendix A: Honors FYE ACE course calendar -- Appendix B: Excerpts from course syllabus -- Appendix C: Agency profile of literacy needs.