Preparing Students to Engage in Equitable Community Partnerships: A Handbook

Academic community engagement can benefit students, faculty, and communities by providing authentic experiences, adding new knowledge, and creating useful deliverables. Preparing Students to Engage in Equitable Community Partnerships is a comprehensive resource for professionals to prepare students for building relationships in communities for learning or research.

Format: Hardback
Length: 283 pages
Publication date: 10 November 2023
Publisher: Temple University Press,U.S.

When done properly, community engagement in academia can have immense value for all stakeholders. Authentic experiences are particularly valuable for students, as they provide them with practical insights and hands-on learning opportunities. Faculty members can also benefit from community engagement, as it allows them to add new knowledge to their field and expand their professional toolbelts. Moreover, communities feel a sense of ownership and pride when they invest in academic initiatives, knowing that their contributions have generated useful deliverables or even long-term partnerships.

Preparing Students to Engage in Equitable Community Partnerships offers a wealth of valuable resources and activities to help impart important concepts such as identity, privilege, oppression, bias, and power dynamics to best support students and communities in these relationships. The authors firmly believe that authenticity can only arise in an atmosphere of mutual respect and self-awareness, advocating for cultural and intellectual humility.

Each chapter in the book examines topics and issues from various perspectives, providing underlying theories and linking those discussions to practical classroom activities, facilitation strategies, and scholarly frameworks. Additionally, the authors include contributions from a diverse group of practitioners from community colleges, private colleges, historically Black colleges and universities, and minority-serving institutions.

Preparing Students to Engage in Equitable Community Partnerships is a much-needed, comprehensive resource for community-engaged professionals as they prepare students for building relationships when entering a community for learning or research purposes. By incorporating these principles and practices, educators can create meaningful and impactful community engagement experiences that benefit students, faculty, and communities alike.

Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781439922736