Erica K. Yamamura, Kent Koth

Place-Based Community Engagement in Higher Education (eBook, ePUB)

A Strategy to Transform Universities and Communities

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book presents the emerging model of place-based community engagement as a powerful process for attaining more positive and enduring results in their local communities as well as stimulating wider engagement by campus constituencies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000979473
• Artikelnr.: 68356700

Autorenporträt

Erica K. Yamamura is an associate professor and the master's degree coordinator in the student development administration program in the College of Education at Seattle University. Kent Koth is the executive director of the Center for Community Engagement at Seattle University. Geoffrey Canada is an American educator, social activist and author. Since 1990, he has been president of the Harlem Children's Zone in Harlem, New York, an organization that states its goal is to increase high school and college graduation rates among students in Harlem. Canada serves as the chairman of Children's Defense Fund's board of directors.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Geoffrey Canada Preface Acknowledgements Part One.
Introduction, Context, and Methodology 1. Introduction to Place-Based
Community Engagement 2. Place-Based Community Engagement in Practice 3.
Methodology and Institutional Profiles Part Two. Phases of Place-Based
Community Engagement 4. The Exploration Phase. Listening and Visioning 5.
The Development Phase. Experimenting and Growing 6. The Sustaining Phase.
In It for the Long Haul Part Three. Key Considerations for Practice 7. A
View From the Community. Community Partners' Perspectives 8. Pursuing
Results. The Practice of Assessment and Outcomes 9. Lessons Learned and
Moving Forward References About the Authors Index