Overview
- Offers a multiple case study design on conceptions of the citizen around the world and on the role of universities in communities
- Presents findings from in depth of interviews with university leaders and stakeholders, including community members, students, professors, and staff
- Analyses multiple universities in the United States, South America, Asia, Africa and Australasia, as well as Western, Central and Eastern Europe
- Appeals to students and scholars of political science, public affairs/administration, and higher education leadership
Part of the book series: Rethinking University-Community Policy Connections (REUNCOPOCO)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- civic mission
- university-community partnership
- comparative higher education
- civic university
- humaniversity
- impact agenda
- multiversity
- scholarship of teaching and learning
- service learning
- community engaged research
- hard integration
- soft integration
- engagement strategies
- autonomy
- political engagement
- forms of participation
- civic contestation
- institutionalisation
- socialisation
- performance measurement
About this book
—Kyle Farmbry, Professor, School of Public Affairs and Administration, Rutgers University-Newark, United States
“By defining community, discussing how universities are often contested spaces, and covering how universities and students engage their communities, the authors make the case for the future university as one that facilitates civic health.”
—William Hatcher, Associate Professor, Augusta University, United States; Co-Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Public Affairs Education
“With a rich variety of historic notions, views, projects, examples and policies, the book inspires to re-think current positioning of students, staff and academic institutions in society.”
—Goos Minderman, Professor (Extraordinary), University of Stellenbosch Business School, South Africa
This book adds to a robust dialogue about the role of higher education in society by examining the promotion of civic health through university-community partnerships and the role of intellectual leaders, scientists, philosophers, university administrators and students in shaping whole or parts of the world. Our global society faces significant social and environmental challenges. Professors and whole universities have an obligation to help address these issues; how they do so is subject to social, cultural, and institutional context. With lessons from Americans, British, Estonians, Lithuanians, Russians, South Africans and beyond, the authors describe the state of the practice and provide frameworks through which universities and people working within or in partnership with can affect change in communities and civic lives.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Cristian Pliscoff is Associate Professor and Director of the Masters Program in Government and Public Management, University of Chile, Chile.
Ashley Connors is a researcher in Public Affairs, College of Community Innovation and Education, University of Central Florida, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Promoting Civic Health Through University-Community Partnerships
Book Subtitle: Global Contexts and Experiences
Authors: Thomas Andrew Bryer, Cristian Pliscoff, Ashley Wilt Connors
Series Title: Rethinking University-Community Policy Connections
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19666-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-19665-3Published: 16 September 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-19668-4Published: 16 September 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-19666-0Published: 30 August 2019
Series ISSN: 2629-2432
Series E-ISSN: 2629-2440
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 187
Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Public Policy, Political Communication, Comparative Politics, Educational Policy and Politics, Higher Education, Citizenship