Overview
- Explores ideas of personal transformation, social change, intercultural understanding, and critical community engagement in higher education
- Examines student pathways to “eudaimonic well-being” that results from finding purpose, realizing potential, and engaging with self and the world
- Uses logic models to draw parallels between student development and community engagement
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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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.
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Reviews
“Hicks Peterson succeeds in exploring the realities and the theoretical underpinnings of the linkages among action research, community engagement, both individual and community well-being, how those connections can be assessed, and whether or not they suggest prescriptive patterns of policies and choices that align with core democratic values of social justice. She builds upon the work of Paulo Freire and John Dewey—connecting those theoretical foundations to community-based actions and strategies—making a significant new contribution.” (Donald W. Harward, President Emeritus, Bates College, USA)
“The author articulates an insightful model of socially justice community engagement while offering practical tools to offer teachers, students, staff members, and community members tangible ways to engage in work that seeks to fundamentally transform injustice.” (Beth Berila, Director of the Women’s Studies Program and Professor, Ethnic and Women’s Studies Department, St. Cloud State University, USA)
“This book is a timely response to a climate today that is promoting scapegoating, division, hate, fear, and hopelessness. In proposing a frontier community engagement strategy focusing on the root causes of injustice, this book proposes transformational models that ensure one’s well-being and intersectionality in the advancement of engaged learning, teaching, research, and organizing.” (Jose Zapata Calderon, Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Chicano/a and Latino/a Studies, Pitzer College, USA)
“This book offers an insightful analysis about the power of healing, hope, and well-being for practitioners.Those who read this will have taken a quantum leap in their thinking about how to support their students with creating realimpact in the world.” (Shawn Ginwright, Associate Professor of Education & Africana Studies, College of Ethnic Studies, San Francisco State University, USA)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Tessa Hicks Peterson is Assistant Vice President for Community Engagement and Assistant Professor of Urban Studies at Pitzer College, USA. For the last twenty years she has facilitated trainings and taught classes on anti-bias education, social justice, and community engagement. She is the author of several articles on community engagement and social change.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Student Development and Social Justice
Book Subtitle: Critical Learning, Radical Healing, and Community Engagement
Authors: Tessa Hicks Peterson
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57457-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-57456-1Published: 18 October 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86167-8Published: 14 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-57457-8Published: 28 September 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 321
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociology of Education, Social Work and Community Development, Personality and Social Psychology