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A number of print and online resources are available to help you learn more about the many facets of civic engagement, community-based participatory research, community service learning, and the work some of our partners are doing. We've included those we think will contribute to methods of scholarship and teaching, and that will impact your students' ability to make a difference. Click on the graphical book
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Books
Service Learning for Civic Engagement Series, Stylus Publishing, LLC
Series Editor: Gerald Eisman, Director, Institute for Civic & Community Engagement at San Francisco State University. Foreword by Robert A. Corrigan, President of San Francisco State University.
Gender Identity, Equity, and Violence, Edited by Geraldine B. Stahly
The authors of the thirteen chapters in Gender Identity, Equity, and Violence bring excitement and innovations to teaching about gender from a wide range of theoretical and discipline perspectives. The book provides many examples of the power of learning through experience as the authors demonstrate that “…the authority of the feminist teacher as intellectual and theorist finds expression in the goal of making students themselves theorists of their own lives by interrogating and analyzing their own experience.” (Weiler, 1991)
Race, Poverty, and Social Justice, Edited by José Z. Calderón
Race, Poverty, and Social Justice explores multiple examples of how to connect classrooms to communities through service learning and participatory research to teach issues of social justice. The various chapters provide examples of how collaborations between students, faculty, and community partners create models of democratic spaces (on and off campus) where the students are teachers and the teachers are students.
Research, Advocacy, and Political Engagement, Edited by Sally Tannenbaum
Research, Advocacy, and Political Engagement showcases innovative approaches to using service learning to introduce students to political engagement. Faculty from disciplines as diverse as Political Science, Education, Urban and Regional Planning, Business, Communications, Sociology, Mathematics, Economics, and Women’s Studies share stimulating ideas and adapatable models that advance disciplinary knowledge, develop collaboration with communities, and engage students in the political process.
Research Methods for Community Change, by Randy Stoecker
This book offers an in-depth review of the research methods communities use to solve problems, develop resources, and protect identities. The four features of the model are:
1. Diagnosing a community condition; 2. Prescribing an intervention for the condition; 3. Implementing the prescription; and 4. Evaluating its impact.
At every stage of this model there are research tasks, from needs and assets assessments at the diagnosis stage to process and outcome studies at the evaluation stage. Readers also will learn the importance of involving community members at every stage of the project and in every aspect of the research, thereby making the research part of the community-building process.
