TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shultz,Lynette
AU  - Kajner,Tania
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Engaged Scholarship: The Politics of Engagement and Disengagement 
T2  - Comparative and International Education, A Diversity of Voices
SN  - 9789462092907
AV  - L1-991 
U1  - 370 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Rotterdam
PB  - SensePublishers, Imprint: SensePublishers
KW  - Education
KW  - Education, general
N2  - This volume brings together diverse theoretical reflections and practices of community engaged scholarship in order to stimulate critical discussion, deepen theory, and invite critical practice. It is an international trend that higher education institutions and agencies are encouraging and promoting community engagement. At the same time, there is recognition of a lack of consistent definitions and understandings of what it is they are promoting. As a counterweight to the dominance of pragmatic and technical discussions in the literature on engaged scholarship, the chapters in this book shift the discourse to ask foundational questions that emphasize the political nature of engagement. Recognizing that acts of engagement are never neutral, the authors in this book explore how engaged scholarship requires decision-making that is inherently grounded in values, beliefs, and interpretations of what is and what ought to be. Alongside complex global and local social movements rising to address issues, for example climate change or the global financial collapse and the uneven consequences of these globalized problems, we see corresponding concerns expressed about the limited participation by excluded, silenced, and invisibilized people throughout the world. How can engaged scholarship be mobilized and who will it serve within such contexts? With contributions covering such diverse topics as a non-binary approach to engagement; citizenship of knowledge; university contexts and corporatization; stranger pedagogies and anti-foundational approaches to service learning; contemporary revolutionary movements in the Arab world; and transforming higher education through Africanist onto-epistemologies, this volume is poised to open the door to a deeper understanding of engaged scholarship
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-290-7
ER  -