The Craft of Community Engaged Teaching & Learning: A Guide for Faculty Development

Using a conversational voice, the authors provide a foundation as well as a blueprint and tools to craft a community engaged course. Based on extensive research, the book provides a scope and sequence of information and skills ranging from an introduction to community engagement, to designing, implementing, and assessing a course, to advancing the craft to prepare for promotion and tenure as well as how to become a citizen-scholar and reflective practitioner. An interactive workbook that can be downloaded from Campus Compact accompanies the Tool Kit of interactive activities interspersed throughout the chapters. The book and workbook can be used by individual readers or with a learning community.

Table of Contents:
Foreword Introduction Part One: Laying the Foundations 1) Being an Engaged Scholar and Doing Engaged Scholarship 2) Theoretical Frameworks for Engaged Teaching and Learning 3) Forms of Community-Engaged Pedagogy 4) Community 5) Intercultural Competence, Cultural Humility, and Critical Consciousness Part Two: Drawing the Blueprint and Using the Tools 6) Objectives 7) Partnerships 8) Engagement 9) Reflection 10) Assessment Part Three: Advancing the Craft 11) Scholarship 12) Preparing for Performance Review 13) Mentoring and Coaching Colleagues 14) Influencing Institutional Change 15) The Citizen Scholar 16) The Reflective Practitioner References

About the Author :
Marshall Welch served as the Assistant Vice Provost for Community Engagement at Saint Mary’s College of California. Prior to that, he was the Director of the Catholic Institute of Lasallian Social Action (CILSA) overseeing service-learning and social justice programs at Saint Mary’s College. In addition to writing numerous articles and book chapters in the field, he is the author of Engaging Higher Education: Purpose, Platforms, and Programs and the co-author of The Community Engagement Professional published by Campus Compact and Stylus Publishing. Star Plaxton-Moore is the Director of Community-Engaged Learning at the Leo T. McCarthy Center for Public Service and the Common Good at University of San Francisco. Star directs institutional support for community-engaged courses and oversees public service programs for undergraduates, including the Public Service and Community Engagement Minor. She designed and implements an annual Community-Engaged Learning and Teaching Fellowship program for USF faculty, and other professional development offerings that bring together faculty and community partners as co-learners.