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Becoming Community-Engaged Educators

Engaging Students Within and Beyond the Classroom Walls

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Editors:
  1. George M. Jacobs

    1. Kampung Senang Charity and Education Foundation, Singapore, Singapore

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  2. Graham V. Crookes

    1. University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, USA

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  • Features interviews of educators in case studies of real teaching contexts using a qualitative approach
  • Presents a local theory and identity of community-engaged teachers and researchers
  • Assist educators in developing as a community-engaged teacher or researcher over the short and long term

Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Education (BRIEFSEDUCAT)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Introduction

    • George M. Jacobs, Graham V. Crookes
    Pages 1-6

  3. Tackling Poverty

    • Anita Lie
    Pages 7-15

  4. To Kill a Mockingbird is a Racist Book

    • Joel Jablon
    Pages 17-26

  5. Authenticity as Activism

    • Yoshi Joanna Grote
    Pages 27-36

  6. Promoting Religious Tolerance

    • Lisa L. Liss
    Pages 37-45

  7. Humanising the Other: How Teachers Can Help Refugees

    • Linda Ruas
    Pages 47-56

  8. Language Teaching, Environmental Education, and Community Engagement

    • Kip Cates
    Pages 57-68

  9. Community-Engaged Educator for Kindness Toward Farmed Animals

    • George M. Jacobs
    Pages 69-78

  10. Conclusion

    • George M. Jacobs
    Pages 79-86
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About this book

This book puts forth a call to engagement for educators at all levels of education and in all subject areas, with a focus on language education. Through using a grounded theory approach, it features semi-structured interviews, in a qualitative approach, with educators who embody community engaged education. Each chapter encompasses a case study that examines the interviewee's motivations, strategies, successes and failures. This book presents a local theory of community-engaged teachers and researchers to assist educators in developing as a community-engaged teacher or researcher. It asks and attempts to answer critical questions concerning the initial induction into community engagement, the maintenance of energy, commitment, and motivation, and the role of support networks. Through these, this book examines what is needed to sustain such an identity, and support campaigns of action or individual engagement over both the short and long term.





Editors and Affiliations

  • Kampung Senang Charity and Education Foundation, Singapore, Singapore

    George M. Jacobs

  • University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, USA

    Graham V. Crookes

About the editors

Graham V. Crookes, PhD, Educational Psychology, from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, is Professor, Department of Second Language Studies at the university. He has published in major applied linguistics journals and engaged in language teaching and language teacher education around the world for 30 years. His major current academic interest is critical language pedagogy. 


George M Jacobs, PhD, Educational Psychology, from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, has over 250 peer-reviewed publications. He is or has been on the board of both professional organizations and charities. He helped found the TESOLers for Social Responsibility interest group in International TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages). He works with a wide variety of teachers, and he continues to teach English, including via distance learning methods. Currently, he has begun teaching seniors topics like 'Reading Aloud to Children with Dialogue', 'Helping Children Create Their Own Books with Dialogue', and 'Memoir Writing'.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Becoming Community-Engaged Educators

  • Book Subtitle: Engaging Students Within and Beyond the Classroom Walls

  • Editors: George M. Jacobs, Graham V. Crookes

  • Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Education

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-8645-0

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-16-8644-3Published: 19 March 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-16-8645-0Published: 19 March 2022

  • Series ISSN: 2211-1921

  • Series E-ISSN: 2211-193X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VII, 86

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Language Education, Educational Policy and Politics, Education, general, Sociology of Education

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