Breathing New Life Into Community-Engaged Teaching, Partnerships, and Scholarship: A Review of Faculty Service-Learning Guidebook: Enacting Equity-Centered Teaching, Partnerships, and Scholarship (1st ed.)

Abstract

In a moment when higher education is called upon to critically examine how it is situated in the production and perpetuation of injustice, community engagement continues to offer promising pathways toward social change. Yet, tensions surface when community-engaged aims fail to address or become drivers of what they originally sought to dispel. Rather than allowing these unfortunate ironies to inhibit such aims, Cress et al. provide a vision for how higher education can move forward through leveraging reciprocal, inclusive, and justice-oriented partnerships and scholarship. This timely resource offers a roadmap of reimagining community-engaged teaching, learning, and scholarship with equity at the forefront. By doing so, narratives of higher education as the sole source of knowledge creation and democracy advancement can be disrupted and constructed anew.