University-Community Partnerships for Transformative Education: Sowing Seeds of Resistance and Renewal - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3031605829 ISBN 13: 9783031605826

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024

Synopsis

This open access edited volume reports on a unique network of innovative in-school and out-of-school programs, University-Community Links. UC Links connects university faculty and students with young people and their families in diverse communities around the world. Chapters in this volume describe programs in the United States (California) as well as Germany, Italy, Spain, Uganda, and Uruguay. Together, authors craft stories of transformative models of education and what is possible when we bridge educational research and practice. Chapters offer strategies for co-creating learning environments that are innovative, collaborative, democratic, equity-oriented, and fun. By drawing lessons from authors’ collective and local histories, this volume helps to re-imagine educational practices, policies, and programs.

About this title

About the Author

Mara Welsh Mahmood is Executive Director of University-Community Links (UC Links) in the Berkeley School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley and has been involved with UC Links since its inception in 1996. She is the co-author of another book about the UC Links network: A Cultural Historical Approach to Social Displacement and University-Community Engagement: Emerging Research and Opportunities.

 

Marjorie Elaine (formerly Marjorie Elaine Faulstich Orellana) is Professor in the School of Education and Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she also serves as the Associate Vice Provost of the International Institute. She directed the UC Links work at UCLA from 2009-2020. She is the author of Immigrant Children in Transcultural Spaces: Language, Learning and Love (a book about B-Club) and Mindful Ethnography: Mind, Heart and Activity for Transformative Social Research (drawing on UC Links teaching). 

 

John Cano is Associate Director of University-Community Links (UC Links) in the Berkeley School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley. He is an educational technology scholar interested in how technology-mediated learning environments can enhance the learning experience of K-12 and higher education students. He also studies student engagement; online education; digital citizenship; intercultural education; and informal learning in after-school settings.

From the Back Cover

This open access edited volume reports on a unique network of university-community partnerships (UC Links) that connect university faculty and students with young people in diverse communities around the world. Chapters describe programs in California, Utah, Germany, Italy, Spain, Uganda, and Uruguay. We craft stories of transformative models of education and show what is possible when we bridge educational research and practice. Drawing on our collective and local histories, we offer strategies for re-imagining education by co-creating learning environments that are innovative, collaborative, democratic, equity-oriented, and fun.

Mara Welsh Mahmood is Executive Director of University-Community Links (UC Links) in the Berkeley School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley, USA and has been involved with UC Links since its inception in 1996.

Marjorie Elaine (formerly Marjorie Elaine Faulstich Orellana) is Professor in the School of Education and Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA and has studied the learning of children and undergraduates in UC Links programs since 2009.

John Cano is Associate Director of University-Community Links (UC Links) in the Berkeley School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley. He studies student engagement; online education; digital citizenship; intercultural education; and informal learning in-school and in after-school settings.

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3031605829
• ISBN 13: 9783031605826
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 453
• Editor: Welsh Mahmood Mara, Elaine Marjorie, Cano John