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Engagement Literature

These collections of references on engagement topics provide you with the opportunity to further explore new engagement strategies and approaches.

For additional books, please check out the NIU University Libraries subject guide for Engagement

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Broader Impacts

    Dempsey, S. E. (2010). Critiquing Community Engagement. Management Communication Quarterly, 24(3), 359-390. https://doi.org/10.1177/0893318909352247
    Garcia, G. A., Núñez, A.-M., & Sansone, V. A. (2019). Toward a Multidimensional Conceptual Framework for Understanding “Servingness” in Hispanic-Serving Institutions: A Synthesis of the Research. Review of Educational Research, 89(5), 745-784. https://doi.org/10.3102/0034654319864591
    Nicotera, Nicole; Cutforth, Nick; Fretz, Eric; and Thompson, Sheila Summers (2011) "Dedication to Community Engagement: A Higher Education Conundrum?," Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship: Vol. 4 : Iss. 1 , Article 5.
    Officer, Starla D. H., Jim Grim, Monica A. Medina, Robert G. Bringle, and Alyssa Foreman. “Strengthening Community Schools Through University Partnerships.” Peabody Journal of Education88, no. 5 (2013): 564–77. http://www.jstor.org/stable/42001797.

Civic Engagement

    Checkoway, Barry. “Renewing the Civic Mission of the American Research University.” The Journal of Higher Education 72, no. 2 (2001): 125–47. https://doi.org/10.2307/2649319.
    Costa, Leeray M., and Karen J. Leong. “Introduction Critical Community Engagement: Feminist Pedagogy Meets Civic Engagement.” Feminist Teacher 22, no. 3 (2012): 171–80. https://doi.org/10.5406/femteacher.22.3.0171.
    Mitchell, Tania D. “Critical Service-Learning as Social Justice Education: A Case Study of the Citizen Scholars Program.” Equity & Excellence in Education 40, no. 2 (2007): 101–12. doi:10.1080/10665680701228797.
    Mitchell, Tania D., and Kathleen M. Coll. “Ethnic Studies as a Site for Political Education: Critical Service Learning and the California Domestic Worker Bill of Rights.” PS: Political Science & Politics 50, no. 1 (2017): 187–92. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1049096516002419.
    Taylor, Jr., Henry Louis, D. Gavin Luter, and Camden Miller. 2018. "The University, Neighborhood Revitalization, and Civic Engagement: Toward Civic Engagement 3.0" Societies 8, no. 4: 106. https://doi.org/10.3390/soc8040106

Community Engagement

    Baker, Paul J. “Three Configurations of School-University Partnerships: An Exploratory Study.” Planning and Changing42, no. 1/2 (2011): 41–62.
    Bullough, R. V., Birrell, J. R., Young, J., Clark, D. C., Erickson, L., Earle, R. S., Campbell, J. F., Hansen, L., & Egan, M. W. (1999). Paradise Unrealized: Teacher Educators and the Costs and Benefits of School/University Partnerships. Journal of Teacher Education, 50(5), 381-390. https://doi.org/10.1177/002248719905000511
    Mitchell, Tania D. “Traditional vs. Critical Service-Learning: Engaging the Literature to Differentiate Two Models .” Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning 14, no. 2 (Spring 2008): 50–65.
    Stoecker, Randy. “Community-Based Research: From Practice to Theory and Back Again.” Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning 9 (Winter 2003): 35–46.
    Welch, Marshall, and John Saltmarsh. “Best Practices and Infrastructures for Campus Centers of Community Engagement.” Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement 17, no. 4 (2013): 25–56. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137315984_14.

Engaged Research

    Butin, Dan. “Dreaming of Justice: Critical Service-Learning and the Need to Wake Up.” Theory Into Practice 54, no. 1 (2015): 5–10. http://www.jstor.org/stable/43893955.
    Devia, C., Baker, E.A., Sanchez-Youngman, S. et al. Advancing system and policy changes for social and racial justice: comparing a Rural and Urban Community-Based Participatory Research Partnership in the U.S.. Int J Equity Health 16, 17 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12939-016-0509-3

Engaged Scholarship

    Wade, Amy, and Ada Demb. “A Conceptual Model to Explore Faculty Community Engagement.” Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning 15 (Spring 2009): 5–16.
    Welch, Marshall, and Star Plaxton-Moore. "The Craft of Community-Engaged Teaching and Learning. A Guide for Faculty Development." (2019).

Social Justice

    Morrell, Ernest. “Critical Participatory Action Research and the Literacy Achievement of Ethnic Minority Groups.” (2017).

Student Engagement

    Estes, J. R. “Jones,” Chris Carey, Debra Tavares, and David Peterson Del Mar. “Begin It Now: Critical Service Learning in the First Year of College.” The Journal of General Education 67, no. 3–4 (2018): 178–93. https://doi.org/10.5325/jgeneeduc.67.3-4.0178.

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