LibGuides: Community-Based Learning and Civic Engagement: Readings

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The following lists are readings recommended by faculty for those planning to engage in a community. Click on an icon to skip to a particular section, or just ctrl+F to search for a specific title or author.

Articles and Reports

Bañales et al. (2020). The Development of Ethnic-Racial Identity Process and Its Relation to Civic Beliefs among Latinx and Black American Adolescents.
Bergdall, T. (2003). Reflections on the Catalytic Role of an Outsider.
Blouin, D. D., & Perry, E. M. (2009). Whom Does Service Learning Really Serve? Community-Based Organizations’ Perspectives on Service Learning.
Bringle, R. G., & Hatcher, J. A. (1999). Reflection in Service Learning: Making Meaning of Experience.
Bringle et al. (2006). Analyzing Morton’s Typology of Service Paradigms and Integrity.
Budhai (2013). Two Sides to Every Story: Exploring community partners' perspective of their service learning experiences.
Collopy et al. (2020). Attending to Conditions That Facilitate Intercultural Competence.
Conrad, A., & Zuckerman, J. (2020). Identifying and countering White supremacy culture in food systems. Duke Sanford World Food Policy Center.
Community engagement and DEI
Davis, A. (2006). What We Don’t Talk About When We Don’t Talk About Service.
Estes, M. L., Sittner, K. J., Hill, K. X., Gonzalez, M. B., & Handeland, T. (2023). Community engagement and giving back among North American Indigenous youth. Journal of community engagement and scholarship, 15(2).
Community engagement and DEI
Guthman, J. (2008). Bringing good food to others: Investigating the subjects of alternative food practice. Cultural geographies, 15(4), 431-447.
Community engagement and DEI
Guthman, J. (2017). Willing (White) Workers on Organic Farms? Reflections on Volunteer Farm Labor and the Politics of Precarity. Gastronomica, 17(1), 15–19.
Community engagement and DEI
Hartmann, E. (2015). A Strategy for Community-Driven Service-Learning and Community Engagement: Fair Trade Learning.
Illich, I. (1994). To hell with good intentions.
Kretzmann, J. & McKnight, J. (1996). Assets-Based Community Development.
Landman, K. (2022). 4 Lessons from the Life of Global Health Visionary Paul Farmer.
Martin, C.E. (2017). The Spiritual Tension of Local Loyalty and Global Responsibility.
McIntosh, P. (1989). White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack.
McKnight, J. (1989). Why Servanthood is Bad.
Mitchell, T.D. (2008). Traditional vs. Critical Service-Learning: Engaging the Literature to Differentiate Two Models.
Mitchell, T.D. (2014). Using a Critical Service-Learning Approach to Facilitate Civic Identity Development.
Mitchell et al. (2012). Service Learning as a Pedagogy of Whiteness.
Mitchell et al. (2015). Reflective Practice that Persists: Connections Between Reflection in Service-Learning Programs and in Current Life.
Owen, J. E. (2016). Fostering critical reflection: Moving from a service to a social justice paradigm.
Owusu-Agyeman, Y. & Fourie-Malherbe, M. (2019). Students as partners in the promotion of civic engagement in higher education.
Putnam, R.D. (1995). Bowling Alone: America's Declining Social Capital.
Remen, N.R. (2020). Helping, Fixing, or Serving?
Sigmon, R. (1995). Sit Down. Be Quiet. Pay Attention.
Song et al. (2017). Examining the Relationship between Service-Learning Participation and the Educational Success of Underrepresented Students.
Toff & Nielsen (2022). How News Feels: Anticipated Anxiety as a Factor in News Avoidance and a Barrier to Political Engagement.
Vincent et al. (2021). Critically Engaged Civic Learning: A Comprehensive Restructuring of Service-Learning Approaches.
Whitley, C. T., & Yoder, S. D. (2015). Developing social responsibility and political engagement: Assessing the aggregate impacts of university civic engagement on associated attitudes and behaviors.
Yob, I.M. (2014). Keep Students in by Sending Them Out.

Chapters and Books

Cultivating Food Justice by Alison Hope Alkon (Editor)
Chapter 12 - "If They Only Knew" : the unbearable whiteness of alternative food (Guthman)
Civic Engagement in Higher Education by Barbara Jacoby
Chapter 3 - Educating Students for Personal and Social Responsibility (Musil)
Service-Learning Essentials by Barbara Jacoby
Chapter 1 - Introduction to Service-Learning
The SAGE Handbook of Intercultural Competence by Darla K. Deardorff (Editor)
Call Number: 303.482 Sa18de (Belk Library 2nd Floor)
The SAGE Handbook of International Higher Education by Darla K. Deardorff (Editor); Hans de Wit (Editor); John D. Heyl (Editor); Tony Adams (Editor)
The Student Companion to Community-Engaged Learning by David M. Donahue; Star Plaxton-Moore
Chapter 1 - Why We Do Community-Engaged Learning
Chapter 2 - What We Gain From Community-Engaged Learning
Reframing Community Engagement in Higher Education by Elena Klaw, Andrea Tully, Elaine K. Ikeda
Community-Based Global Learning by Eric Hartman (Editor); Richard C. Kiely (Editor); Jessica Friedrichs (Editor); Judith V. Boettcher (Editor)
Information Services to Diverse Populations by Nicole A. Cooke
International Service Learning by Robert G. Bringle (Editor); Julie A. Hatcher (Editor); Steven G. Jones (Editor)
Chapter 7 - Service Learning as Local Learning (Sutton)
Learning As a Way of Leading by Stephen Preskill; Stephen D. Brookfield
Call Number: 371.2 B791Le (Belk Library 2nd Floor)

Podcasts, Videos, and More

30 Days (TV series)
Morgan Spurlock encourages people to step into someone else's shoes. Participants spend 30 days living in and interacting with a community that they were previously unfamiliar with.
Flag Wars (Documentary)
This 2003 documentary explores the tensions around urban gentrification in Columbus, Ohio.
Nice White Parents (Podcast)
A five episode podcast examining public schools in America. Hosted by Chana Joffe-Walt.
Topless Government (Podcast)
Chrystal Ellerbe breaks down politics, the federal government, and how it all works in this ongoing podcast.

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