Reconceptualizing Faculty Development in Service-Learning/Community Engagement -

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Provides educational developers and community engagement professionals an analysis of approaches to faculty development around service-learning and community engagement. Using an openly self-reflective approach, contributors offer examples, models, and realistic strategies, to empower readers to evolve their faculty development efforts in service-learning and community engagement.

Biographie:
Becca Berkey is Director of Service-Learning, Center of Community Service, Northeastern University. Emily Eddins Rountree is Assistant Director, Center for Service Learning, University of Kansas. Patrick M. Green has served as the Director of the Center for Experiential Learning at Loyola University Chicago since its inception in August 2007. The Center for Experiential Learning houses five university-wide programs, including service-learning, academic internships, student employment / community-based federal work study, undergraduate research, and the electronic portfolio program. As a Clinical Instructor of Experiential Learning, Dr. Green teaches a variety of general elective experiential learning courses, engaging students in service-learning, community-based research, internship experiences, and undergraduate research. Dr. Green?s research includes the impact of experiential learning programs on skill development and career development (funded by the National Association of Colleges and Employers Research Foundation Grant), the meaning-making processes of reflection in service-learning/experiential learning, and the use of electronic portfolios in experiential learning (Inter/national Coalition for Electronic Portfolio Research). Dr. Green was chosen as an Engaged Scholar for National Campus Compact, and currently serves on the Board of Directors of the International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement (IARSCLE). Cara Meixner is Executive Director, Center for Faculty Innovation Associate Professor, Graduate Psychology, James Madison University. L. Dee Fink

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Abbreviations Case Studies Forward?L. Dee Fink Preface?Emily A. Eddins and Patrick M. Green Exploring the Borderlands through Collaborative Inquiry. A Narrative Introduction?Patrick M. Green, Emily A. Eddins, Becca Berkey, and Cara Meixner Exploring the Borderlands through Collaborative Inquiry. A Narrative Introduction?Patrick M. Green, Emily A. Eddins, Becca Berkey, and Cara MeixnerPart One. The Landscape of Faculty Development and Community Engagement 1. A Holistic Framework for Educational Professional Development in Community Engagement?Marshall Welch and Star Plaxton-Moore 2. Faculty as Colearners. Collaborative Engagement and the Power of Story in Faculty Development?Timothy K. Eatman Part Two. Models of Faculty Development in Service-Learning/Community Engagement 3. Models and Genres of Faculty Development?Emily O. Gravett and Andreas Broscheid 4. Supporting Professional Development for Community Engagement. Three Institutional Case Studies?Amy Spring, Case studies contributed by Caile Spear, Kara Brascia, Mike Stefancic, Anna Bailey, Kristin English, Julia Metzker, Chavonda Mills, Sandra Godwin, Sherril B. Gelmon, Kevin Kecskes, Devorah Lieberman, and Leslie McBride 5. Learning Communities as a Creative Catalyst for Professional Development and Institutional Change?Star Plaxton-Moore, Julie Hatcher, Mary Price, Carey Borkoski, Vanya Jones, and Mindi Levin 6. Mission Driven, Low-Cost, Creative Practices?Ann E. Green, Ann Marie Jursca Keffer, Kim Jensen-Bohat, Melody A. Bowdon, and Amy Zeh 7. Dynamics on the Edge. Exploring Roles and Intersections of Service-Learning and Community Engagement and Educational Development?Cara Meixner, Becca Berkey, and Patrick M. Green Part Three. Challenges and Opportunities in Pedagogy and Partnerships 8. Special Pedagogical Considerations. Designing Learning in Service-Learning and Community Engagement?Chirag Variawa 9. The Intersection of Institutional Contexts and Faculty Development in Service-Learning and Community Engagement?Stephanie T. Stokamer 10. Reciprocity and Partnership. How Do We Know It Is Working??Gabriel Ignacio Barreneche, Micki Meyer, and Scott Gross Part Four. Engendering Change in Educational Development 11. Connecting Service-Learning and Community Engagement Faculty Development to Community-Engaged Scholarship?Sherril B. Gelmon and Catherine M. Jordan 12. Innovative Considerations in Faculty Development and Service-Learning and Community Engagement. New Perspectives for the Future?Richard Kiely and Kathleen Sexsmith Editors and Contributors Index