Community Colleges as a Site for Community Organizing: A Model for Facilitating Social Justice Engagement

Parker, Stuart

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-22945-4_2

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“…Civic development is not static nor linear, giving colleges a great range of opportunities to promote students' civic development. Research finds that higher education institutions promote the civic development of students through various civic pedagogies, such as curricular and co-curricular practices, service-learning courses, volunteering, engaging in research, and community engagement through courses and student organizations or pedagogies to engage students and build their civic capacities (Alcantar, 2017(Alcantar, , 2023García & Cuellar, 2018;Parker, 2016).…”

Section: Civic Engagement At Community Collegesmentioning

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Para mi gente: Community responsive civic practices at Hispanic Serving Community Colleges

Alcantar,

Hernandez,

Reyes

et al. 2024

New Drctns Community Coll

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This article presents research on the role of educators at a Hispanic Serving community college in the civic development—the capacity to be socially and/or politically civically engaged—of Latinx students. The article presents educators’ perceptions of, and pedagogies used to promote, the civic development of Latinx students and communities at a federally designated Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) community college. The community college serves a region that has historically disenfranchised, excluded, and dismissed Latinx and other immigrant groups from fully incorporating into the civic fabric of the region. We present findings from interviews with educators (i.e., faculty, counselors, administrators, and staff), and document and website analysis to undercover the pedagogies that support the civic development of Latinx students and communities. The need to study the connection between HSIs, community colleges, and civic engagement is imperative because these colleges can serve la gente de la comunidad by promoting service to communities and developing leaders to evoke social and community change. This study contributes to the understanding of the critical role of Minority‐Serving Institution (MSI) community colleges and presents practical approaches to promoting the civic development of underserved Latinx communities.

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Section: Civic Engagement At Community Collegesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Para mi gente: Community responsive civic practices at Hispanic Serving Community Colleges

Alcantar,

Hernandez,

Reyes

et al. 2024

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“…In turn, Service Learning programs can themselves be nourished by the Just Community approach, for example by involving the students and the recipients of the service in decisions about its implementation, in response to those who have pointed out that these programs may not be critical enough with the given situations (e.g. Parker, 2016;Stoecker, 2016).…”

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Service learning and the just community: Complementary pragmatist forms of civic character education

Jover,

Gozálvez

2024

Theory and Research in Education

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This article investigates the theoretical link between two approaches to civic character education: Service Learning and the Just Community, given that the two share a strong democratic ethical component. Based on historical research and bibliographical review, we show that John Dewey’s pragmatism forms a theoretical foundation of both approaches. Our revision combines the search for a normative foundation of democratic life with the need for contextual agreements: universal principles of justice with conversation and action in specific situations, moral autonomy with social commitment in real circumstances. By merging the two educational approaches to civic character education, we conclude that social and democratic progress does not mean renouncing ethical principles, but drawing them in a different way: revisably, creatively, dialectically, practically, and intersubjectively.

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Schnee¹,

Better²,

Cummings³

2016

Education, Equity, Economy

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Community Colleges as a Site for Community Organizing: A Model for Facilitating Social Justice Engagement

Cited by 3 publications

References 5 publications

Para mi gente: Community responsive civic practices at Hispanic Serving Community Colleges

Para mi gente: Community responsive civic practices at Hispanic Serving Community Colleges

Service learning and the just community: Complementary pragmatist forms of civic character education

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