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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828601803321

Titolo

Handbook of engaged scholarship : contemporary landscapes, future directions, volume 2 : community-campus partnerships / / edited by Hiram E. Fitzgerald, Cathy Burack, and Sarena D. Seifer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

East Lansing, : Michigan State University Press, 2010

ISBN

1-60917-194-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (537 p.)

Collana

Handbook of engaged scholarship : contemporary landscapes, future directions ; ; v. 2

Transformations in higher education : the scholarship of engagement

Altri autori (Persone)

FitzgeraldHiram

BurackCathy

SeiferSarena D

Disciplina

378.1/03;378.103

Soggetti

Community and college - United States

Service learning - United States

Education, Higher - Aims and objectives - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Types of engaged scholarship -- pt. 2. Measuring, assessing, and accrediting engaged scholarship -- pt. 3. Community-campus partnership development -- pt. 4. National organizational models -- pt. 5. The future landscape.

Sommario/riassunto

In the preface to the Handbook of Engaged Scholarship, Hiram Fitzgerald observes that the Kellogg Commission's challenge to higher education to engage with communities was a significant catalyst for action. At Michigan State University, the response was the development of ""engaged scholarship,"" a distinctive, scholarly approach to campus-community partnerships.     Engaged scholars recognize that community based scholarship is founded on an underpinning of mutual respect and recognition that community knowledge is valid and that sustainability is an integral part of the