Document Type
Praxis
Abstract
Drawing on the work of Patrick Saint-Jean, S.J., this article examines the contribution that “possibility thinking” makes to community-engaged learning at three Jesuit universities. The article considers ways in which possibility thinking intersects both Jesuit and secular perspectives on hope and imagination, and their relationship to anti-racist praxis. We then describe three institutional contexts at different stages of enacting community-engaged learning in introductory and upper-level English classes. The article concludes by offering three praxis-oriented directions for community-engaged learning educators to take up in their own institutional contexts: developing faculty capacity and awareness; fostering solidarity not charity; and encouraging reflection not reaction.
Recommended Citation
Bowen, Betsy; Campbell, Lilly; Green, Jenna; and Phillips, Emily A.
(2023)
"Possibility Thinking in the Community-Engaged Classroom: Uniting Hope and Imagination towards Anti-Racist Action,"
Jesuit Higher Education: A Journal: Vol. 12:
No.
2, Article 16.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.53309/2164-7666.1455
Available at:
https://epublications.regis.edu/jhe/vol12/iss2/16
