Faculty Service-Learning Guidebook

<p>This is a practical guide to designing teaching and coordinating service-learning courses and for developing reciprocal community partnerships and community-based research through a lens of equity that addresses the endemic racial social economic and environmental disparities across society.</p><p>The text provides a comprehensive framework for developing both in-person and on-line service-learning with a chapter on virtual delivery of courses that integrates the principles and practices described throughout the book. The authors uniquely integrate the how-to of conducting service-learning with the theoretical foundations to enact effective equitable and inclusive community engagement. Given this moment of enormous social inequality and divisiveness the authors offer a new definition and set of educational principles that they characterize as Equity-Centered Community Engagement Excellence. These principles serve to guide academic and community engagement that is democratic recognizes the voice and expertise of community partners addresses the power imbalances between communities and academic institutions and develops an educational experience that is potentially transformative and promotes civic responsibility.</p><p>Informed by the literature of critical service-learning critical race theory intercultural communication theory and social-constructivism this book attempts to deconstruct the assumption of the preeminence of academic knowledge to reconstruct a new operational paradigm of equity-centeredness that validates community capacity to guide faculty in their redesign of service-learning curriculum activities collaborations and scholarship. It is based on the principles of:·Student Agency (demonstrated as enhanced skills knowledge and motivation)·Community Efficacy (recognition of community assets and capacity-building)·Scholarly Advocacy (leveraging evidence-based research-based for equity-centered learning serving and social justice). The authors offer examples of syllabi lessons and assignments reflection questions evaluation rubrics as well as an array of teaching tips that illustrate strategies for use in the classroom and in the field.</p><p>The book is addressed to faculty embarking on service-learning and to seasoned scholar practitioners looking for innovative ideas as well as to campus administrators who coordinate community outreach or college student volunteer services offering guidance on leveraging resources and fiscal support from external stakeholders. It is also designed to serve as a resource for professional development workshops and faculty scholar learning communities. It offers a rich compendium of ideas and examples from which faculty and practitioners can select exercises and elements to incorporate or adapt for their courses whether designing short-term engagements or extended service-learning programs.</p>