"Global/Local" Community Engagement: Advancing Integrative Learning and Situated Solidarity

Autor/inn/en	Houston, Serin D.; Lange, Kirk
Titel	"Global/Local" Community Engagement: Advancing Integrative Learning and Situated Solidarity
Quelle	In: Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 42 (2018) 1, S.44-60 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0309-8265
DOI	10.1080/03098265.2017.1331425
Schlagwörter	Community Involvement; Integrated Activities; Learning Activities; Geography; Geography Instruction; Experiential Learning; Social Action; Higher Education; Group Unity; Cooperation; Political Attitudes; School Community Relationship; Massachusetts + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Integrierender Unterricht; Lernaktivität; Geografie; Geography education; Geography lessons; Geografieunterricht; Experiental learning; Erfahrungsorientiertes Lernen; Soziales Handeln; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Gruppenidentität; Co-operation; Kooperation; Political attitude; Politische Einstellung; Master-Studiengang
Abstract	This article illustrates how "global/local" community engagement, a particular form of experiential learning and political work that draws upon geography conceptually, pedagogically, and programmatically, is well suited to advance integrative learning and invite students into social action. Through specific examples from Mount Holyoke College, we argue that "global/local" community engagement helps students cultivate the skills and dispositions of reciprocity, reflexivity, and place-based and interdependent knowledge production. These are habits of mind and patterns of praxis necessary for enacting "situated solidarity," a practice with great potential for grappling with the complex challenges and marked divisiveness of the twenty-first century. As our empirical examples demonstrate, the geographic concept of contour lines matched with the pedagogies of accompaniment and co-labor guide "global/local" community engagement. We conclude with a set of recommendations for implementing "global/local" community engagement in other institutions of higher education to reveal the context-specificity of our examples and the possibilities for application elsewhere. (As Provided).
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