2024-2025 Book Club: Reframing Community Engagement in Higher Education
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Community-Based Learning Program Professional Learning Community Book Club for 2024-2025
Join us in reading Reframing Community Engagement in Higher Education. This recent publication encompasses current literature, practices, and practitioners’ experiences around curricular community engagement.
Together we will:
- Build solidarity and strengthen connections with colleagues.
- Gain new perspectives on community engagement, including framing and grounding the work, best practices, institutional support, and more.
- Articulate the value of community engagement as a high-impact practice that is transformational for students, faculty, and the communities we live and work in.
- Develop ideas that enhance our teaching and learning.
- Discuss how we can tackle the challenges and concerns of integrating CBL into our classes.
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About the Book
This timely book addresses assumptions and challenges inherent within community engagement as a catalyst for developing students’ sense of civic responsibility at a time of rampant social polarization.
Promoting academic development and life skills through the high-impact practice of service-learning, the book explores a new ecological framework for reflecting on and improving practice. This book describes new models such as the #CaliforniansForAll College Corps, offers advice on coalition building, and presents the narratives of community-engaged professionals and faculty, offering a sense both of tensions inherent in this work and examples of initiatives in local contexts. Chapters primarily reflect on what action is required for fulfilling our public purpose and what’s holding us back.
This book provides guidance, examples, and benchmarks for best practices in community engagement that are particularly relevant to this time of crises and unrest and will be relevant to community-engaged professionals, higher education faculty, and college administrators.
Experience Community-Based Learning at PCC
Courses with community-based learning (CBL) provide students with the opportunity to: explore local, national, and/or global issues; broaden their perspectives and enhance critical thinking skills; and become active citizens through community engagement. There are numerous courses that have CBL projects every term!