Teaching Community Psychology as Community Engagement

Abstract

This report describes a model for teaching community psychology as a form of community engagement and the related practices to encourage active engagement between students and their communities. As active community learners, students need to explore self, family and community as interactive social entities. We propose to encourage students with community engaged learning to become aware of their comfort zones through facilitated learning at a distance. We conclude that epistemic partnering allows the timely leveraging of existing community resources for social and psychological transformation.