Resources to support community engaged teaching

UC Davis Resources

Global Affairs Curriculum Enhancement Through Global Learning Program
The Global Affairs Curriculum Enhancement Through Global Learning program, a faculty development opportunity that supports the university-wide Global Education for All initiative, will provide UC Davis faculty with concrete tools for globalizing teaching and preparing students for success in a globalized world.
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Books we recommend

Sentipensante (Sensing/Thinking) Pedagogy
Sentipensante (Sensing/Thinking) Pedagogy is a holistic approach to teaching that defines seven steps to unlocking the potential of teachers and their students. The author, Laura Rendón, offers a transformative vision of education that emphasizes the harmonic, complementary relationship between the sentir of intuition and the inner life and the pensar of intellectualism and the pursuit of scholarship; between teaching and learning; formal knowledge and wisdom; and between Western and non-Western ways of knowing.

Service-Learning Essentials: Questions, Answers, and Lessons Learned (Jacoby)
“Service-Learning Essentials is the resource you need to help you develop high-quality service-learning experiences for college students. Written by one of the field's leading experts and sponsored by Campus Compact, the book is the definitive work on this high-impact educational practice. Service-learning has been identified by the Association of American Colleges and Universities as having been widely tested and shown to be beneficial to college students from a wide variety of backgrounds.”

The Craft of Community-Engaged Teaching and Learning (Welch and Plaxton-Moore)
This guidebook for faculty development provides a foundation as well as a blueprint and tools to craft a community-engaged course. The book provides a scope and sequence of information and skills ranging from an introduction to community engagement, to designing, implementing, and assessing a course, to advancing the craft to prepare for promotion and tenure as well as how to become a citizen-scholar and reflective practitioner.

Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) Series on Service Learning Research
A five-part series focused on conceptual frameworks, research methods, and assessment for students and faculty as well as communities, institutions, and partnerships.

Primer on the Benefits and Value of Civic & Community Engagement in Higher Education
Released in February 2021, this resource was created by the North Carolina Campus Compact Community of Practice, Inquiry & Learning (COPIL). COPIL is comprised of practitioner-scholars interested in being part of the ongoing inquiry that is helping to establish promising practices of civic and community engagement and to build a knowledge base around it.