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The Best of Both Worlds: Exploring Cross-Collaborative Community Engagement
The Journal of Effective Teaching
  • Kathleen P. Hunt, Iowa State University
  • Melinda M. Krakow, Johns Hopkins University
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Article
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Published Version
Publication Date
1-1-2015
Abstract

Lauded as a rewarding pedagogical approach, community-engagement can be time-consuming, resource-intensive, and difficult for instructors to manage for effective stu-dent learning outcomes. Collaborative teaching can allows instructors working in the same classroom to draw from each others’ expertise and share resources. In this essay, we propose a fruitful approach that brings the benefits of collaborative teaching to communi-ty-engagement. Two instructors collaborated to facilitate a community-engaged food jus-tice blog, demonstrating the benefits of combining these modalities. In this essay, we re-view relevant literature on collaborative teaching and community-engagement, presenting cross-collaborative community engagement as an innovative model for collaboration be-tween instructors in separate courses, allowing instructors to maintain autonomy while working together toward engaged learning.

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This is an article from The Journal of Effective Teaching 15 92015): 87. Posted with permission.

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This article is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivs license. http://creativecommons.org/licenses /by-nc-nd/2.0/uk/.
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Citation Information
Kathleen P. Hunt and Melinda M. Krakow. "The Best of Both Worlds: Exploring Cross-Collaborative Community Engagement" The Journal of Effective Teaching Vol. 15 Iss. 2 (2015) p. 87 - 98
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/kathleen-hunt/1/