African Americans and community engagement in higher education : community service, service-learning, and community-based research / edited by Stephanie Y. Evans [and others].

Other author Evans, Stephanie Y.
Format Book
Publication InfoAlbany : SUNY Press, ©2009.
Descriptionxxii, 263 pages ; 23 cm
Subjects
Service learning--United States.
African American college students.
Community and college--United States.

Contents Preface : using history, experience, and theory to balance relationships in community engagement / Stephanie Y. Evans -- Introduction : Characteristics of engagement : communicated experiences of race, universities, and communities -- Pt. 1. Community service, volunteerism, and engagement / Stephanie Y. Evans ... [et al.]. The community folk art center: a university and community creative collaboration / Kheli R. Willetts ; An African American health care experience: an academic medical center and its interdisciplinary practice / Kendall M. Campbell ; African American college students and volunteerism: attitudes toward mentoring at a title I school / Joi Nathan ; Prejudice, pitfalls, and promise: experiences in community service in a historically black university / Jeff Brooks --Pt. 2. Community service-learning / Michelle R. Dunlap. Can the village educate the prospective teacher?: Reflections on multicultural service-learning in African American communities / Lucy Mule ; Sowing seeds of success: gardening as a method of increasing academic self-efficacy and retention among African American students / August Hoffman ... [et al.] ; A service or a commitment?: A Black man teaching service-learning at a predominantly white institution / Troy Harden ; Racial identity and the ethics of service-learning as pedagogy / Annemarie Vaccaro ; "We'll understand it better by and by": a three-dimensional approach to teaching race through community engagement / Meta Mendel-Reyes and Dwayne A. Mack -- Pt. 3. Community-based research / DeMond S. Miller. Black like me: navigating race, gender, research, and community / Fleda Mask Jackson ; A partnership with the African American Church: IMPPACT and S.P.I.C.E.S. for life / Micah McCreary ... [et al.] ; "I have three strikes against me": narratives of plight and efficacy among older African American homeless women and their implications for engaged inquiry / Olivia G.M. Washington and David P. Moxley ; A culturally competent community-based research approach with African American neighborhoods: critical components and examples / Richard Briscoe ... [et al.] ; Community engagement and collaborations in community-based research: the road to project butterfly / GiShawn Mance, Bernadette Sánchez, and Niambi Jaha-Echols -- Final word: African Americans and community engagement: a challenge and opportunity for higher education / Donald F. Blake.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2008055627
ISBN9781438428734 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN1438428731 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN9781438428741 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN143842874X (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks LC220.5 .A48 2009 ✔ Available Place Hold