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Engaged Scholars : Next-Generation Engagement and the Future of Higher Education
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Post, Margaret A. Ward, Elaine Longo, Nicholas V. Saltmarsh, John A. |
| Copyright Year | 2017 |
| Abstract | Publicly Engaged Scholars emerges from the Next Generation Engagement Project, a collaboration between the New England Resource Center for Higher Education (NERCHE), the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU), and Imagining America (IA), and is “led by a group of recognized scholars and practitioners to develop and implement civic engagement initiatives aimed at the next generation of students, faculty, and scholars in higher education” (New England Resource Center for Higher Education, n.d.). The book’s contributors include scholars from a wide range of disciplines committed to cocreated knowledge, the transformative power of narrative and dialogue, and “higher education as a vehicle to increase equality and justice in society” (p. xx). This book arrives at an important moment in the history of servicelearning and community engagement (SLCE) in higher education. In many ways, efforts to integrate community engagement into the academy have been tremendously successful, evidenced by the upsurge in SLCE research and practice across a wide range of academic disciplines, and by the expansion of institutional support through, for example, the creation of servicelearning centers on campuses and the promotion of national agendas for SLCE in higher education by such influential organizations as the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the American Association of Colleges & Universities. However, most of the work to date has been inwardly focused, examining the positive impact of the pedagogy on college students and calling for changes within the academy to support engaged scholarship; less attention has been paid to the nature and potential of campuscommunity partnerships, particularly the role and experience of “the community” in those partnerships. The growing support for servicelearning and engaged scholarship across the academy has led to many creative approaches to this work in the U.S. and abroad. Yet the building enthusiasm for and the rapid, outward expansion of the practice leave it vulnerable to “growing pains” and a certain shallowness. Indeed, critics have lodged complaints against the field for lacking depth and an intellectual core (Butin, 2011; Stewart & Webster, 2011). This is the context in which Publicly Engaged Scholars emerges, and the context it reflects and attempts to address. The book’s editors note in the introduction: |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/p/pod/dod-idx/review-essay-scholarship-redefined.pdf?c=mjcsloa&format=pdf&idno=3239521.0023.114 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
