Engaging Appalachia: A Guidebook for Building Capacity and Sustainability

Engaging Appalachia: A Guidebook for Building Capacity and Sustainability
ISBN-10
0813196965
ISBN-13
9780813196961
Category
Education
Pages
186
Language
English
Published
2023-03-07
Publisher
University Press of Kentucky
Authors
William Schumann, Rebecca Adkins Fletcher, Rebecca-Eli Long

Description

Inclusive campus-community collaborations provide critical opportunities to build community capacity—defined as a community's ability to jointly respond to challenges and opportunities—and sustainability. Through case studies from across all three subregions of Appalachia from Georgia to Pennsylvania, Engaging Appalachia: A Guidebook for Building Capacity and Sustainability offers diverse perspectives and guidance for promoting social change through campus-community relationships from faculty, community members, and student contributors. This volume explores strategies for creating more inclusive and sustainable partnerships through the arts, humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. In representing diverse areas, environments, and issues, three relatable themes emerge within a practice viewpoint that is scalable to communities beyond Appalachia: fostering student leadership, asset-building, and needs fulfillment within community engagement. Engaging Appalachia presents collaborative approaches to regional community engagement and offers important lessons in place-based methods for achieving sustainable and just development. Written with practicality in mind, this guidebook embraces hard-earned experiences from decades of work in Appalachia and sets forth new models for building community resilience in a changing world.

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