It's Not about "Us": "Express Newark" Prioritizing the Public Good

Autor/inn/en	Davson, Victor; Englot, Anne Schaper; Fischzang, Chantal; Fleming, Tamara; Kline, Nick
Titel	It's Not about "Us": "Express Newark" Prioritizing the Public Good
Quelle	In: Metropolitan Universities, 29 (2018) 2, S.74-90 (17 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1047-8485
Schlagwörter	Universities; Role of Education; College Role; School Community Relationship; Prosocial Behavior; Altruism; Shared Resources and Services; Trust (Psychology); Leadership Role; College Faculty; Teacher Role; School Community Programs; Educational Change; Resistance to Change; Program Development; Scholarship; Service Learning; Institutional Mission; New Jersey (Newark) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? University; Universität; Bildungsauftrag; Altruistic behavior; Altruismus; Gemeinwirtschaft; Fakultät; Lehrerrolle; Bildungsreform; Programmplanung; Scholarships; Stipendium; Service-Learning
Abstract	Publically engaged scholarship demands new ways of working within and outside of the academy. Systems within the university reward faculty for individual achievements. This approach militates against working on collaborative projects because of the difficulty of explaining and quantifying one's contribution. The culture of academia further inhibits potential collaborations and undermines even the most altruistic faculty, who are socialized to devalue the experiential, place-based knowledge of a community partner and encouraged to adopt a self-concept as "the" authority. But if universities are to honor their commitment to the public good, the public must be prioritized in the academic value system, which ought to encourage new modes of thinking that recognize the legitimacy of the expertise of community partners and place value on collaboration with them. From the community perspective, there is often a lack of models for successful collaboration, with engagement by universities more often than not taking the form of exercising eminent domain or parachuting in to "fix" a problem and then abandoning the community. Community members carry with them skepticism that the university's only use is as a source of hand-outs rather than a source of the kind of agency afforded by true collaboration. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01