Educating for Citizenship and Social Justice: Practices for Community Engagement at Research Universities

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In this edited volume, authors explore the ways in which departments, programs, and centers at public research universities are working to better engage students in the work of citizenship and social justice. The chapters in this book illuminate the possibilities and challenges for developing community engagement experiences and provide evidence of the effects of these efforts on communities and undergraduate students’ development of citizenship outcomes. This text reveals how important the integration of our intentions and actions are to create a community engaged practice aimed towards justice. Front Matter ....Pages i-xxiv Introduction: Educating for Citizenship and Social Justice—Practices for Community Engagement at Research Universities (Tania D. Mitchell, Krista M. Soria)....Pages 1-10 Undergraduates’ Development of Citizenship at Public Research Universities: A Data-Driven Imperative for Social Justice (Krista M. Soria, Tania D. Mitchell, Mathew Lauer, Anthony Scali)....Pages 11-32 Front Matter ....Pages 33-33 Developing a Civic Identity by Designing and Facilitating Public Opportunities for Deliberative Dialogue (Lori L. Britt, Leanna K. Smithberger)....Pages 35-45 Making History: Fostering Democratic Imagination Through Community-Engaged Social Movement Scholarship (Sean Burns)....Pages 47-57 Constructing a Knowledge Base Across Classroom Contexts: Pre-service Teachers Assess Language and Literacy in an Urban Head Start Program (Susan Browne, Marjorie Madden)....Pages 59-70 Engaging Undergraduate Men in Service-Learning: Exploring Motivations to Serve (Zak Foste)....Pages 71-81 Models of Civic Engagement Initiatives at Louisiana State University (Touria Khannous)....Pages 83-97 Beyond Service-Learning: Helping Undergraduates Define and Plan for Lives of Civic Engagement at the University of Michigan (Kerri Leyda Nicoll, Katie Richards-Schuster, Mary C. Ruffolo)....Pages 99-111 Racial Melancholia: The Post/Colonial Work of Service-Learning (Colleen Rost-Banik)....Pages 113-125 Front Matter ....Pages 127-127 Citizen Scholars’ Conceptions of Social Justice (Tania D. Mitchell)....Pages 129-148 Science Shops and the U.S. Research University: A Path for Community-Engaged Scholarship and Disruption of the Power Dynamics of Knowledge Production (Karen Andrade, Lara Cushing, Ashton Wesner)....Pages 149-165 Agitate. Educate. Organize: Demonstrating Solidarity in the Co-Curricula (Melissa Dawn Gruver)....Pages 167-181 Developing the Democratic Spirit: Public Through Public Narratives—Community Engagement at UC Merced (Charles Nies, Vernette Doty)....Pages 183-193 Toward a High-Impact Integrated Curriculum Partnership (Joan Arches, Chi-kan Richard Hung)....Pages 195-207 Culture of Engagement: Preparing Civic-Minded Public Service Professionals of the Future (Brittany Haupt, Naim Kapucu, Fatih Demiroz, Mirtha Bailey)....Pages 209-219 Enhancing Underrepresented Students’ Success Through Participation in Community Engagement (Geoffrey Maruyama, Andrew Furco, Wei Song)....Pages 221-235 Front Matter ....Pages 237-237 Community Service and Social Justice at Research Universities (Krista M. Soria, Tania D. Mitchell)....Pages 239-249 Take a Course, Change yOUR Future: The American Cultures Engaged Scholarship Program at the University of California, Berkeley (Suzan Akin, Victoria Robinson, Cynthia Gordon da Cruz)....Pages 251-263 Tulane University: Public Service as a Brand Identity (Nanette Archer Svenson)....Pages 265-276 Beyond Service Toward Human Liberation: Social Relatedness and Transformative Leadership Through Academically-Based Community Service (Gretchen E. L. Suess)....Pages 277-288 Conclusion: Educating for Social Justice—Learning from Service-Learning Alumni (Tania D. Mitchell)....Pages 289-299 Back Matter ....Pages 301-314