How is the focus and practice of higher education community engagement changing as scholars and community members work to “more intentionally embody structures of inclusion, participation, and deliberation?” The new special issue of our online, peer-reviewed journal Partnerships explores this question.
In their introduction to the issue guest editors Brandon Kliewer (Kansas State University) and Judith Ramaley (Senior Scholar, AAC&U) write:
“Each of these articles provides a framework or case studies of how community engagement practice is challenging assumptions about who participates, how people participate, the purpose of participation, and why broader participation is deemed important… . Institutional structures that once consistently conferred status to those considered worthy of creating and receiving knowledge are being rethought. The transformation this collection represents does not merely illustrate a democratization of knowledge, but signals a shift in how the involvement of more diverse perspectives and patterns of involvement are effectively putting new knowledge to use in interesting ways.”
Hosted online by UNC Greensboro, Partnerships: A Journal of Service-Learning and Civic Engagement is North Carolina Campus Compact’s peer-reviewed, journal, which is freely available to registered users. The new special issue, Volume 6, Number 3 (2015), includes the articles:
- “Rust to Green: Praxis as University-Community Placemaking” by Paula Horrigan (Cornell University)
- “Towards Productive Disagreement: Deliberative, Democratic Processes in Community Engagement and Service-Learning” by Kathryn Elizabeth Yankura Swacha (Purdue University)
- “Collectivizing our Impact: Engagement Departments and Academic Change” by Kevin Kecskes (Portland State University)
- “Governing Academic Civic Engagement: Lessons and Challenges from Four Engaged Campuses” by Jennifer Dugan (Randolph College)
Partnerships accepts manuscripts on a rolling basis. The journal seeks work that examines the processes and outcomes of partnerships that define service-learning and civic engagement projects and programs. Visit the Call for Manuscripts to learn more.