This course examines the social context of community education and development. Course participants are expected to investigate historical and contemporary definitions of community development, key principles of community education for sustainable community development, practical and ethical issues in organizing and evaluating educational experiences from asset-based perspectives, and strategies for mobilizing social change in/with communities for social justice. Major educational approaches this course aims to explore follow in the tradition of the “critical practitioner” and critical pedagogy. Opportunities to learn and practice participatory processes are also essential learning aims. Globalization, sustainability, and social justice discourses provide the contextual boundaries for course activities and discussion with emphasis given to agricultural, food system, and environmental settings and cases.