Student development and social justice : critical learning, radical healing, and community engagement

This book weaves together critical components of student development and community building for social justice to prepare students to engage effectively in community-campus partnerships for social change. The author combines diverse theoretical models such as critical pedagogy, asset-based community development, and healing justice with lessons from programs promoting indigenous knowledge, decolonization, and mindfulness. Most importantly, this book links theory to practice, offering service-learning classroom activities, course and community partnership criteria, learning outcomes, and assessment rubrics. It speaks to students, faculty, administrators, and community members who are interested in utilizing community engagement as a vehicle for the development of students and communities towards wellbeing and social justice.

Know peace, know justice -- Disrupting injustice and mobilizing social change -- Self-awareness and radical healing -- Critical, contemplative community engagement -- Community engagement outcomes and activities -- Evaluation case study : "healing ourselves, healing our communities" -- Transforming our ourselves, transforming institutions -- Appendix I. Pitzer in Ontario : local cultural immersion program design and syllabi -- Appendix II. Healing ourselves, healing our communities : local and global program design and syllabi -- Appendix III. Community engagement in student graduation requirements : policy -- Appendix IV. Community engagement in faculty appointments, promotion and tenure policy.