Student Development and Social Justice  [electronic resource] : Critical Learning, Radical Healing, and Community Engagement /
Hicks Peterson, Tessa.author.
This book weaves together critical components of student development and community building for social justice to prepare students to engage effectively in community-campus partnerships for social change. The author combines diverse theoretical models such as critical pedagogy, asset-based community development, and healing justice with lessons from programs promoting indigenous knowledge, decolonization, and mindfulness. Most importantly, this book links theory to practice, offering service-learning classroom activities, course and community partnership criteria, learning outcomes, and assessment rubrics. It speaks to students, faculty, administrators, and community members who are interested in utilizing community engagement as a vehicle for the development of students and communities towards wellbeing and social justice.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part I. Theories of Engagement -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Know Peace, Know Justice -- Chapter 2: Disrupting injustice and mobilizing social change -- Chapter 3: Self-awareness and radical healing -- Chapter 4: Critical, Contemplative Community Engagement -- Part II. Praxis of Engagement -- Chapter 5: Community Engagement Activities, Outcomes and Policies -- Chapter 6: Evaluation Case Study: “Healing Ourselves, Healing Our Communities” -- Chapter 7: Conclusion: Integrating Community Engagement into Institutions of Higher Education.
This book weaves together critical components of student development and community building for social justice to prepare students to engage effectively in community-campus partnerships for social change. The author combines diverse theoretical models such as critical pedagogy, asset-based community development, and healing justice with lessons from programs promoting indigenous knowledge, decolonization, and mindfulness. Most importantly, this book links theory to practice, offering service-learning classroom activities, course and community partnership criteria, learning outcomes, and assessment rubrics. It speaks to students, faculty, administrators, and community members who are interested in utilizing community engagement as a vehicle for the development of students and communities towards wellbeing and social justice.
Social service.
Consciousness.
Sociology of Education.
Social Work and Community Development.
Personality and Social Psychology.