ABSTRACT
Winner of the EDRA 2015 Book Award!
Community Matters: Service Learning in Engaged Design and Planning explores issues that resonate with a diverse group of design and planning educators drawn to the challenge of supporting greater community building and empowerment while combining learning with practice. The book explores such questions as:
- How do we foster mutuality and reciprocity in community-academy partnerships?
- What conflicts, challenges, limits and obstacles do we face in our service-learning studios and projects?
- What evidence do we have of our impacts on students and communities and how are we responding?
- How are we being attentive to the contemporary environmental and societal issues?
- What is our role as both designers and agents of societal change?
- How are we innovating to enable greater capacities for individuals, future practitioners and communities?
This book provides compelling evidence that educators should be adopting engaged pedagogies, research methods and theories through which they can bring together education, practice and scholarship at the boundary of community and academy.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 3|20 pages
Establishing a place for common ground
A case study of the role of a service-learning studio in neighborhood university redevelopment
chapter 4|16 pages
Spaces of connection
Implementing the design of a high-tech learning space for youth
chapter 11|21 pages
Democracy matters, beginning in the classroom
Toward a collaborative (democratic?) design studio
chapter 12|23 pages
Changing racial attitudes
Community-based learning and service in East St. Louis, Illinois
chapter 13|22 pages
Putting community first
Reflections on history, identity, and power in local and global service-learning
chapter 14|21 pages
Reaching out and reaching in
Investigating community impacts of a university outreach program
chapter 16|16 pages
The semester ends but the community challenges do not
A legacy to continue the work in East Harlem