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Community Engaged Learning

This guide is intended for faculty, students, staff, and community members who are interested in learning more about community-engaged learning.

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Community Engaged Learning Literature

UBC's Centre for Community Engaged Learning has gathered considerable research and literature on community engaged learning pedagogy and practice and has made their collection available through Zotero:

Work by UBC Authors

  • Bainbridge, L., Grossman, S., Dharamsi, S., Porter, J., & Wood, V. (2014). Engagement studios: Students and communities working to address the determinants of health. Education for Health, 27(1), 78-82. https://doi.org/10.4103/1357-6283.134330
  • Brondani, M. A. (2012). Teaching social responsibility through community service‐learning in predoctoral dental education. Journal of Dental Education, 76(5), 609-619. https://doi.org/10.1002/j.0022-0337.2012.76.5.tb05295.x
  • Broom, C. A., & Bai, H. (2021). A case-study exploration of Deweyan experiential service learning as citizenship development. In Eva Aboagye, & S. Nombuso Dlamini (Eds.), Global citizenship education (pp. 147). University of Toronto Press. https://doi.org/10.3138/j.ctv1hggkjt.10
  • Butterwick, S. (2018). Community as teacher: Who’s learning? Who’s teaching? In D. Lund & K. Grain (Eds.) The Wiley International Handbook of Service-Learning for Social Justice (pp. 299-318). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley & Sons. https://go.exlibris.link/vdCbStDv
  • Grain, K., Katumba, T., Kirumira, D., Nakasiita, R., Nakayenga, S., Nankya, E., Nteza, V., & Ssegawa, M. (2019). Co-constructing knowledge in Uganda: Host community conceptions of relationships in international service-learning. The Journal of Experiential Education, 42(1), 22-36. https://doi.org/10.1177/1053825918820677
  • Janke, R., Pesut, B., & Erbacker, L. (2012). Promoting information literacy through collaborative service learning in an undergraduate research course. Nurse Education Today, 32(8), 920-923. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nedt.2011.09.016
  • Kahlke, R., & Taylor, A. (2018). Community service-learning in Canada: One size does not fit all. Engaged Scholar Journal, 4(1), 1-18. https://doi.org/10.15402/esj.v4i1.305
  • Kassam, R., Estrada, A., Huang, Y., Bhander, B., & Collins, J. (2013). Addressing cultural competency in pharmacy education through international service learning and community engagement. Pharmacy, 1(1), 16-33. https://doi.org/10.3390/pharmacy1010016
  • Khan, S. A., & VanWynsberghe, R. (2020). A synthesis of the research on community service learning in preservice science teacher education. Frontiers in Education, 5. https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2020.00045
  • Rojas, A., Black, J., Orrego, E., Chapman, G., & Valley, W. (2017). Insights from the Think&EatGreen@School project: How a community-based action research project contributed to healthy and sustainable school food systems in Vancouver. Canadian Food Studies, 4(2), 25-46. https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v4i2.225
  • Taylor, A. (2020). Community-university engagement: From chasm to chiasm. Educational Studies, 56(4), 389-404. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131946.2020.1757449
  • Taylor, A., Butterwick, S. J., Raykov, M., Glick, S., Peikazadi, N., & Mehrabi, S. (2015). Community service-learning in Canadian higher education [R]. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0226035 
  • Taylor, A., Glick, S., & Peikazadi, N. (2018). Service‐Learning and the discourse of social justice. In D. E. Lund (Ed.), The Wiley international handbook of service‐learning for social justice (pp. 27-51). John Wiley & Sons, Inc. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119144397.ch1
  • Yurasovskaya, E. (2021). The reasons and ways to implement service-learning in a precalculus class. PRIMUS: Problems, Resources, and Issues in Mathematics Undergraduate Studies, 31(1), 56-69. https://doi.org/10.1080/10511970.2019.1629554