What are Universities For?: From Public Scholarship to the Engaged University
"Public scholarship" uses academic research to help social groups respond to civic problems. Drawing on two distinct genealogies of public scholarship, I elaborate on an internal distinction between the "public intellectual" and "engaged scholar". Then, mapping this dis...
| Subtitles: | "Special Issue: Publicly Engaged Scholarship" |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Equinox Publ.
2024
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| In: |
Journal for the study of religion, nature and culture
Year: 2024, Volume: 18, Issue: 4, Pages: 465-483 |
| Further subjects: | B
public intellectual
B Engaged Scholarship B community engaged research B Participatory Action Research B John Dewey B engaged scholarship B Environmental Humanities B community-based research |
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| Summary: | "Public scholarship" uses academic research to help social groups respond to civic problems. Drawing on two distinct genealogies of public scholarship, I elaborate on an internal distinction between the "public intellectual" and "engaged scholar". Then, mapping this distinction onto my own research trajectory from theory to practice to engagement, I argue that scholarly focus on community practices can be as removed from public problem-solving as academic theory, whereas engaged scholarship is more accountable to the demands of justice. As "public scholarship" and its various cognates increasingly become corporate-speak in higher education, the scholars and communities who are the progenitors of engaged scholarship should lead the development of the "engaged university". |
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| ISSN: | 1749-4915 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal for the study of religion, nature and culture
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1558/jsrnc.25072 |