Learning Through Community Engagement: Vision and Practice in Higher Education

✍ Scribed by Judyth Sachs, Lindie Clark (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Singapore
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 326
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book charts the development of a whole-institution approach to university-community engagement at a modern Australian university, highlighting the pivotal role that curriculum renewal can play in organizational transformation. It describes how Macquarie University’s PACE (Professional and Community Engagement) program developed and fostered a culture of learning that has been at the center of academic renewal, differentiation, and institutional change. It details the development of the PACE pedagogical model, the establishment of the network of stakeholder relationships which underpin it, and the embedding of the model across the whole institution. Authored by those directly involved in the change project, this book tells the story of PACE, its achievements, challenges, success factors and future directions. A series of dovetailing contributions by leading international scholars of university-community engagement set the PACE story in its global context. This book adds to the scholarship of learning through community engagement, provides international perspectives on trends and issues in university-community engagement, contributes to a broader understanding of the practice and pedagogy of community engagement, and discusses the challenges and opportunities of implementing and sustaining change in the higher education sector.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
A Collaborative Turn: Trends and Directions in Community Engagement....Pages 3-15
The Civic University: A Legal and Policy Vacuum?....Pages 17-29
Community Engagement Scholarship, Research Universities, and the Scholarship of Integration....Pages 31-51
A Question of Purpose: Engaged Learning and the Research Mission of the University....Pages 53-64
Educating the Global Citizen....Pages 65-78
Front Matter....Pages 79-79
Imagining a Curriculum for an Engaged University....Pages 81-97
Transformational Learning – Possibilities, Theories, Questions and Challenges....Pages 99-114
Language Matters: Reciprocity and Its Multiple Meanings....Pages 115-131
Implementing an Institution-Wide Community-Engaged Learning Program: The Leadership and Management Challenge....Pages 133-151
PACE at a Glance: Case Studies of the Student Experience....Pages 153-169
Reflection for Learning: A Holistic Approach to Disrupting the Text....Pages 171-184
Assessment Strategies for New Learning....Pages 185-197
Inclusive PACE: An Experience for All Students....Pages 199-214
Building a Community of Ethical Practice Through PACE....Pages 215-229
Exploring Critical Success Factors for Effective Collaborative Relationships....Pages 231-243
Exploring the Reciprocal Benefits of Community-University Engagement Through PACE....Pages 245-261
PACE and Online Learning and Engagement....Pages 263-273
The Practice of PACE: Lessons Learned and Imagined Futures....Pages 275-297
Front Matter....Pages 299-299
Reflections on the Macquarie Experience....Pages 301-319

✦ Subjects

Higher Education;Learning & Instruction;International and Comparative Education