Engaged scholarship : the politics of engagement and disengagement /

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Imprint:Rotterdam : SensePublishers, [2013]
©2013
Description:1 online resource (ix, 189 pages)
Language:English
Series:Comparative and international education ; volume 26
Comparative and international education (Sense Publishers) ; v. 26.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11204522
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Other authors / contributors:Shultz, Lynette, editor, author.
Kajner, Tania, editor, author.
ISBN:9789462092907
9462092907
9789462092884
9462092885
9789462092891
9462092893
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:This volume brings together diverse theoretical reflections and practices of community engaged scholarship in order to stimulate critical discussion, deepen theory, and invite critical practice. It is an international trend that higher education institutions and agencies are encouraging and promoting community engagement. At the same time, there is recognition of a lack of consistent definitions and understandings of what it is they are promoting. As a counterweight to the dominance of pragmatic and technical discussions in the literature on engaged scholarship, the chapters in this book shift the discourse to ask foundational questions that emphasize the political nature of engagement. Recognizing that acts of engagement are never neutral, the authors in this book explore how engaged scholarship requires decision-making that is inherently grounded in values, beliefs, and interpretations of what is and what ought to be. Alongside complex global and local social movements rising to address issues, for example climate change or the global financial collapse and the uneven consequences of these globalized problems, we see corresponding concerns expressed about the limited participation by excluded, silenced, and invisibilized people throughout the world. How can engaged scholarship be mobilized and who will it serve within such contexts? With contributions covering such diverse topics as a non-binary approach to engagement; citizenship of knowledge; university contexts and corporatization; stranger pedagogies and anti-foundational approaches to service learning; contemporary revolutionary movements in the Arab world; and transforming higher education through Africanist onto-epistemologies, this volume is poised to open the door to a deeper understanding of engaged scholarship.
Other form:Print version: Engaged scholarship. Rotterdam : Sense Publishers, 2013 9462092885
Standard no.:10.1007/978-94-6209-290-7