The Craft of Community-Engaged Teaching and 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 this tool kit with interactive activities that are interspersed throughout the chapters. Thebook and workbook can be used by individual readers or with a learningcommunity.

Author: Marshall Welch, Star Plaxton-Moore
Publisher: Campus Compact
Published: 09/11/2019
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781733902809

About the Author
Welch, Marshall: -

Marshall Welch served as the Assistant Vice Provost forCommunity Engagement at Saint Mary's College of California. Prior to that, he was the Director of theCatholic Institute of Lasallian Social Action (CILSA) overseeingservice-learning and social justice programs at Saint Mary's College. Marshall began his work in the field ofcommunity engagement by teaching service-learning courses at the University ofUtah as a tenured full professor, where he later became the Director of theLowell Bennion Community Service Center. In 2003 he hosted the third research conference on service-learning andcommunity engagement in Salt Lake City prior to the establishment of InternationalAssociation of Research on Service-learning and Community Engagement (IARSLCE)and has served two terms on its board. Marshall also took a leading role with Campus Compact in conceptualizingleadership institutes for new center directors and hosted the first one at theUniversity of Utah. In addition towriting 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 Compactand Stylus Publishing. His recent workhas been researching campus center infrastructure to advance communityengagement leading to the creation of the National Inventory of InstitutionalInfrastructure for Community Engagement (NIIICE). He is now an independent scholar living inthe Portland, Oregon area.

Learn more about Marshall Welch on his personal website, www.marshalljwelch.com.Plaxton-Moore, Star: - Star Plaxton-Moore is the Director of Community-Engaged Learning at theLeo T. McCarthy Center for Public Service and the Common Good at University ofSan Francisco. Star directs institutional support for community-engaged coursesand oversees public service programs for undergraduates, including the PublicService and Community Engagement Minor. She designed and implements an annualCommunity-Engaged Learning and Teaching Fellowship program for USF faculty, andother professional development offerings that bring together faculty andcommunity partners as co-learners. Her scholarship focuses on facultydevelopment for community-engaged teaching and scholarship, student preparationfor community engagement, assessment of civic learning outcomes, and communityengagement in institutional culture and practice. Star holds an MEd from GeorgeWashington University and is currently completing course work for an EdD in organizationalleadership at USF.

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