Working Towards a More Critical Community Engagement Praxis
Thursday, February 23, 11:00 – 12:00
Hosted by: Office of Outreach & Engagement and CETL
This workshop will provide an overview of a critical service learning framework and center the importance and urgency of a social justice imperative in community engaged teaching. Strategies and opportunities to work towards a more critical community engagement praxis will be shared and explored.
Short Bio
Tania D. Mitchell is an associate professor and the coordinator of higher education graduate programs at the University of Minnesota. An internationally recognized scholar of community engagement, her research focuses on service-learning as a critical pedagogy to explore civic identity and leadership, social justice, student learning and development, race and racism, and community practice. She interrogates practices in higher education that aim to contribute to a more just world. Her scholarship has been published in numerous books and journals and she is the editor of four books, including: Educating for Citizenship and Social Justice: Practices for Community Engagement at Research Universities (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), the Cambridge Handbook of Service Learning and Community Engagement (Cambridge University Press, 2017), and Black Women and Social Justice Education: Legacies and Lessons (SUNY Press, 2019).
For more information, contact: CETL at cetl@uconn.edu