Engaged Research and Practice

Higher Education and the Pursuit of the Public Good
Herausgeber: Overton, Betty; Burkhardt, John C; Pasque, Penny A

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Produktbeschreibung

Offers important insights and tangible examples of how higher education leaders may work directly with communities and in policy settings to understand the deeper meanings often lost in conversations about educational opportunity. Each chapter addresses the ways in which faculty, community and administrative leaders may connect research and practice through unique research projects.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 326
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781620364406
• ISBN-10: 1620364409
• Artikelnr.: 44636432

Autorenporträt

Betty Overton is a Professor of Clinical Practice in the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education (CSHPE) and the Director of the National Forum on Higher Education for the Public Good. Betty is active in higher education, serving on the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Universities (NCA), the board of the American Association of Higher Education & Accreditation (AAHEA), and the editorial board of Liberal Education, published by the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U). Penny A. Pasque is professor in Educational Studies, director of the QualLab, and director of Qualitative Methods in the Office of Research, Innovation and Collaboration (ORIC), College of Education and Human Ecology, The Ohio State University. Pasque is editor of The Review of Higher Education (with Dr. Thomas F. Nelson Laird). RHE is considered one of the leading research journals in the field and is the official journal of the Association for the Study of Higher Education. Her research addresses complexities in qualitative inquiry, in/equities in higher education, and dis/connections between higher education and society. She works with qualitative methodologies as well as studies qualitative methodologies that work toward social justice and educational equity. Pasque's research has appeared in over 100 journal articles and books, including in The Journal of Higher Education, Qualitative Inquiry, The Review of Higher Education, Peabody Journal of Education, Diversity in Higher Education, Cultural StudiesCritical Methodologies, among others.Her books include Qualitative Inquiry in Higher Education Organization and Policy Research (with Lechuga, Routledge), Qualitative Inquiry for Equity in Higher Education: Methodological Innovations, Implications, and Interventions (with Carducci, Kuntz & Gildersleeve, Jossey-Bass), Critical Qualitative Inquiry: Foundations and Futures (with Cannella & Salazar Pérez, Left Coa

Inhaltsangabe

Series Foreword - Edward P. St. John Foreword - Tony Chambers
Acknowledgments PART ONE. Introduction to Engaged Research and Practice 1.
Engagement for the Common Good. Situating the National Forum's Work, Betty
Overton 2. Scholarship and Activism on Behalf of Higher Education's Public
Good Mission. An Organizational Context. John C. Burkhardt PART TWO.
Engaging the Community Level 3. Conflating Community Means With
Organizational Ends. Strengthening Reciprocity in a Multisector Higher
Education Access Partnership, Elizabeth Hudson 4. Community Agency and
College-Going Culture. The Use of Participatory Action Research, Esmeralda
Hernandez-Hamed 5. Collaborative Approaches to Community Change. The
Complexities of Power, Collaboration, and Social Change, Penny A. Pasque
Refl ective Narrative. Finding Voice in Communidad, Estefanía López Refl
ective Narrative. Making Herstory. Inside and Outside the Walls of
Academia, Lena M. Khader Refl ective Narrative. The Education Of A
Fontanero, Jessica L. Cañas PART THREE. Engaging the Institutional Level 6.
Challenges to Diversity. Engaged Administrative Leadership for
Transformation in Contested Domains, Cassie L. Barnhardt 7. Access Points
to the American Dream. Immigrant Students in Community Colleges, Kyle
Southern, Teresita Wisell, and Jill Casner-Lotto 8. Organizational
Transformation for Catalytic Social Change, Lara Kovacheff -Badke Refl
ective Narrative. A View From the Hyphen Bridging. Theory and Practice,
Will Cherrin Refl ective Narrative. A Journey of Social Consciousness and
Action From Teaching Assistantship and Service-Learning Experiences, Megan
B. Lebre Refl ective Narrative. The Impact of Research Involvement on My
Own Understanding of Educational Equity, Briana Akani PART FOUR. Engaging
Policy Discussions at the State and National Levels 9. Undocumented Student
Access to Higher Education. Focused Efforts at the Federal and
Institutional Levels, Kimberly A. Reyes, Aurora Kamimura, and Kyle Southern
10. "The Problem With Our Students . . . Is That Their Families Don't Value
Education", Magdalena Martinez 11. Linking State Priorities With Local
Strategies. Examining the Role of Communities in Postsecondary Access and
Success in Michigan, Nathan J. Daun-Barnett Refl ective Narrative. Ashley
Smith's Journey, Ashley Smith Refl ective Narrative. Growing, Learning, and
Bringing Back, Amicia Gomez Bowman Refl ective Narrative. Undocumented
Students, Chengchen Zhu PART FIVE Concluding Thoughts on Engaged Research
and Practice 12. Refl ections. Lessons Learned and Next Steps, Betty
Overton Contributors Index