Coming to Critical Engagement
by
Frank A. Fear - Cheryl L. Rosaen - Richard J. Bawden - Pennie G. Foster-Fishman
Engagement is the label increasingly embraced by higher education to describe activities associated with serving the public interest. This book describes how members of a faculty learning community have come to understand engagement as both intellectual endeavor and scholarly practice at the interface between academy and citizenry.
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Engagement is the label increasingly embraced by higher education to describe activities associated with serving the public interest. What had been viewed previously as service to, extension of, and outreach from is now engagement with as faculty members, students, and staff collaborate with partners in community affairs. This book describes how members of a faculty learning community have come to understand engagement as both intellectual endeavor and scholarly practice at the interface between academy and citizenry. Coming to Critical Engagement argues that the academy has a moral imperative to participate deliberately and consistently in democratic and systemic discourse with the public.
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General info
Publisher & Imprint:
University Press of America
City:
Lanham, MD
Pages:
324
More info:
height 228 mm
width 163 mm
weight 490 gr
thickness 23 mm
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Age recommended:
General/trade
Subject Indexing & Classification
Library of Congress Subject: Decision making
Record updated at:
11 April, 2013
time:
19:25
Summary
Coming to Critical Engagement
Chapter 1 Foreword Chapter 2 Acknowledgments Chapter 3 Authors' Notes Chapter 4 Introduction Part 5 Part I. A Frame of Reference: Chapter 1. Finding Our Voice: Locating Our Place; Chapter 2: Stories of Critical Engagement; Chapter 3. Living Our Way into a New Way of Thinking: An Exploration of Mindful Inquiry; Chapter 4. Have We Ever Been Cr Part 6 Part II. Digging into Engagement: Chapter 5. Learning Through Discourse; Chapter 6. From Building Connections to Developing Social Capital to Leverage Change; Chapter 7. Co-Empowerment and Working Toward Betterment; Chapter 8. Critical Engagement, T Part 7 Part III. Making Sense of it All: Chapter 9. Coming to Critical Engagement: Personal Implications; Chapter 10. Coming to Critical Engagement: Intellectual Implications Chapter 8 About the Authors
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