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Community-university engagement: the Philippi CityLab in Cape Town and the challenge of collaboration across boundaries

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Brown Luthango, Mercy
Copyright Year	2012
Abstract	Debates about the role of the university in society have been going on for many decades. There have been several calls for a more “engaged” form of scholarship which applies itself consciously to the pursuit of applied knowledge which can contribute towards solving some of the most pressing societal challenges. Closer collaboration between universities and community groups has been identified as a central component of this form of scholarship. This paper interrogates the literature on the role of universities in society, with a specific focus on university-community partnerships, and discusses the experience of the Philippi CityLab in Cape Town, South Africa to shed some light on the complexities, challenges and rewards of university-community interactions. The case of the Philippi CityLab confirms many of the pre-requisites for “successful” collaboration between universities and communities as identified in the literature. The paper argues that the ideal of a more engaged scholarship is certainly worth pursuing and that there is no doubt that South African universities do have a role to play in terms of working with communities to find workable solutions to the myriad of development challenges which they face. However, the experience of the Philippi CityLab also shows that stakeholders should not be naïve about the time, effort and investment which these kinds of engagements require and the difficulty of establishing, maintaining and sustaining genuine, mutually beneficial university-community collaborations. Furthermore, a truly engaged scholarship requires a significant transformation of the institutional context within universities in order to not only facilitate and support, but also reward research which seek closer collaboration between universities and communities.
Starting Page	309
Ending Page	324
Page Count	16
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00181560
Journal	Higher Education
Volume Number	65
Issue Number	3
e-ISSN	1573174X
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2012-07-05
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Community-university collaboration Scholarship of engagement Boundary work New forms of scholarship Applied research Higher Education
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Education Law

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