Academics in action! : a model for community-engaged research, teaching, and service

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Academics in action! : a model for community-engaged research, teaching, and service

Title remainder

a model for community-engaged research, teaching, and service

Statement of responsibility

Sandra L. Barnes, Lauren Brinkley-Rubinstein, Bernadette Doykos, Nina C. Martin, and Allison McGuire, editors

Title variation

Model for community-engaged research, teaching, and service

Contributor

• Barnes, Sandra L.

Editor

• Barnes, Sandra L.

Subject

• Action research in education
• Action research in education
• Community and college
• Community and college
• Community and school
• Community and school
• Community development -- Research
• Community development -- Research
• Dewey, John, 1859-1952
• Dewey, John, 1859-1952
• EDUCATION -- Essays
• EDUCATION -- Organizations & Institutions
• EDUCATION -- Reference
• Education, Higher -- Aims and objectives
• Education, Higher -- Aims and objectives -- United States
• United States
• Universities and colleges -- Public services
• Universities and colleges -- United States -- Public services

Language

eng

Summary

"The academy is often described as an ivory tower, isolated from the community surrounding it. Presenting the theory, vision, and implementation of a socially engaged program for the Department of Human and Organizational Development (HOD) in Peabody's College of Education and Human Development at Vanderbilt University, Academics in Action! describes a more integrated model wherein students and faculty work with communities, learn from them, and bring to bear findings from theory and research to generate solutions to community problems. Offering examples of community-engaged theory, scholarship, teaching, and action, Academics in Action! describes the nuanced structures that foster and support their development within a research university. Theory and action span multiple ecological levels from individuals and small groups to organizations and social structures. The communities of engagement range from local neighborhoods and schools to arenas of national policy and international development. Reflecting the unique perspectives of research faculty, practitioners, and graduate students, Academics in Action! documents a specific philosophy of education that fosters and supports engagement; the potentially transformative nature of academic work for students, faculty, and the broader society; and some of the implications and challenges of action-oriented efforts in light of dynamics such as income inequality, racism, and global capitalism. This edited volume chronicles teaching, research, and community action that influences both inside and outside the classroom as well as presents dimensions of a participatory model that set such efforts into action"--Publisher's description

Cataloging source

CN3GA

Dewey number

370.72

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

LB1028.24

LC item number

.A23 2016

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography