Becoming Community-Engaged Educators

Zusatztext

This book puts forth a call to engagement for educators at all levels of education and in all subject areas, with a focus on language education. Through using a grounded theory approach, it features semi-structured interviews, in a qualitative approach, with educators who embody community engaged education. Each chapter encompasses a case study that examines the interviewee's motivations, strategies, successes and failures. This book presents a local theory of community-engaged teachers and researchers to assist educators in developing as a community-engaged teacher or researcher. It asks and attempts to answer critical questions concerning the initial induction into community engagement, the maintenance of energy, commitment, and motivation, and the role of support networks. Through these, this book examines what is needed to sustain such an identity, and support campaigns of action or individual engagement over both the short and long term.

Autorenportrait

Graham V. Crookes, PhD, Educational Psychology, from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, is Professor, Department of Second Language Studies at the university. He has published in major applied linguistics journals and engaged in language teaching and language teacher education around the world for 30 years. His major current academic interest is critical language pedagogy.  George M Jacobs, PhD, Educational Psychology, from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, has over 250 peer-reviewed publications. He is or has been on the board of both professional organizations and charities. He helped found the TESOLers for Social Responsibility interest group in International TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages). He works with a wide variety of teachers, and he continues to teach English, including via distance learning methods. Currently, he has begun teaching seniors topics like 'Reading Aloud to Children with Dialogue', 'Helping Children Create Their Own Books with Dialogue', and 'Memoir Writing'.

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