Cover Image

Engaged research and practice : higher education and the pursuit of the public good / edited by Betty Overton, Penny A. Pasque and John C. Burkhardt ; foreword, Tony Chambers, series foreword by Edward P. St. John.

Show other versions (2)

What practices can researchers use to gain a more nuanced understanding of educational issues in the community and be part of the solution to those issues?Engaged Research and Practice is about two prevailing and complementary ideas that have surfaced in the higher education arena: engaged research...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Main Authors: Overton, Betty Jean (Author, Editor), Pasque, Penny A. (Author, Editor), Burkhardt, John (Author, Editor)
Other Authors: Chambers, Tony (writer of foreword.)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2023.
Series:Engaged research and practice for social justice in education.
Subjects:
Action research in education > United States.
Community and college > United States.
Education, Higher > Aims and objectives > United States.
Common good.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Tony Chambers
  • Engagement for the common good : situating the National Forum's work / Betty Overton
  • Scholarship and activism on behalf of higher education's public good mission : an organizational context / John C. Burkhardt
  • Conflating community means with organizational ends : strengthening reciprocity in a multisector higher education access partnership / Elizabeth Hudson
  • Community agency and college-going culture : the use of participatory action research / Esmeralda Hernandez
  • Collaborative approaches to community change : the complexities of power, collaboration and social change / Penny A. Pasque
  • Challenges to diversity : engaged administrative leadership for transformation in contested domains / Cassie L. Barnhardt
  • Access points to the American dream : immigrant students in community colleges / Kyle Southern, Teresita Wisell, Jill Casner-Lotto
  • Organizational transformation for catalytic social change / Lara Kovacheff Badke
  • Undocumented student access to higher education : focused efforts at the federal and institutional levels / Kimberly A. Reyes, Aurora Kamimura, Kyle Southern
  • "The problem with our students is that their families don't value education" / Magdalena Martinez
  • Linking state priorities with local strategies : examining the role of communities in postsecondary access and success in Michigan / Nathan J. Daun-Barnett
  • Reflections : lessons learned and next steps / Betty Overton.

Similar Items