This book will help post-secondary educators to discover the joys and
challenges of implementing theoretically grounded civic engagement
projects on their campuses. The essays on civic engagement and public
scholarship are written by an interdisciplinary group of community
college faculty who have designed and implemented civic engagement
projects in their classrooms. The projects they describe stand at the
intersection of research, theory and pedagogy. They challenge dominant
constructions of civic engagement as students bring their community,
culture and history into the classroom. The authors consider the
particular complexities and constraints of doing civically engaged
teaching and scholarship at the community college level and situate
their projects within current theoretical debates about civic
engagement, public scholarship, and public higher education.