Publicly engaged scholars : next generation engagement and the future of higher education / edited by Margaret A. Post, Elaine Ward, Nicholas V. Longo, and John Saltmarsh ; foreword by Timothy K. Eastman ; afterword by Peter Levine.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introducing next-generation engagement -- Part one: The collaborative engagement paradigm. The inheritance of next-generation engagement scholars -- A brief history of a movement -- Collaborative engagement -- Collaborative engagement research and implications for institutional change -- Legitimacy, agency, and inequality -- Part two: New public scholars. Disrupting role dichotomies -- Developing a community-engaged scholarly identity -- Paving new professional pathways for community-engaged scholarship -- Critical commitments to community and campus change -- Fortunate accidents and winding pathways -- Next-generation engaged scholars -- Part three: The future of engagement. The future of the academy with student as colleagues -- Next-generation engagement scholars in the neoliberal university -- Building an organizational structure that fosters blended engagement.

"The concern that the democratic purposes of higher education -- and its conception as a public good -- are being undermined, with the growing realization that existing structures are unsuited to addressing today's complex societal problems, and that our institutions are failing an increasingly diverse population, all give rise to questioning the current model of the university. This book presents the voices of a new generation of scholars, educators, and practitioners who are committed to civic renewal and the public purposes of higher education. They question existing policies, structures, and practices, and put forward new forms of engagement that can help to shape and transform higher education to align it with societal needs. The scholars featured in this book make the case for public scholarship and argue that, in order to strengthen the democratic purposes of higher education for a viable future that is relevant to the needs of a changing society, we must recognize and support new models of teaching and research, and the need for fundamental changes in the core practices, policies, and cultures of the academy. These scholars act on their values through collaboration, inclusiveness, participation, task sharing, and reciprocity in public problem solving. Central to their approach is an authentic respect for the expertise and experience that all stakeholders contribute to education, knowledge generation, and community building. This book offers a vision of the university as a part of an ecosystem of knowledge production, addressing public problems with the purpose of advancing a more inclusive, deliberative democracy; and explores the new paradigm for teaching, learning, and knowledge creation necessary to make it a reality"--Publisher's description

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English.

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