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Academics in Action! : A Model for Community-Engaged Research, Teaching, and Service.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Fordham University Press, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (216 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780823268818
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Academics in Action!DDC classification:
  • 370.72
LOC classification:
  • LB1028.24.A233 2016
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Half Title -- Introduction -- Part I: Theories, Frameworks, and Twenty-First Century Deweyism -- 1. John Dewey, Participatory Democracy, and University-Community Partnerships -- 2. The Ethical Foundations of Human and Organizational Development Programs: The Ethics of Human Development and Community Across the Curriculum -- Part II: Implications and Responses: Academics in Action! -- 3. Using Research to Guide Efforts to Prevent and End Homelessness -- 4. Ecological Research Promoting Positive Youth Development -- 5. Putting Boyer's Four Types of Scholarship into Practice: A Community Research and Action Perspective on Public Health -- 6. Conducting Research on Comprehensive Community Development Initiatives: Balancing Methodological Rigor and Community Responsiveness -- Part III: Academic Structures That Foster Synergy, Collaboration, and Courses -- 7. The Field School in Intercultural Education as a Model for International Service-Learning and Collaborative Action-Research Training -- 8. Creating a Mosaic of Religious Values and Narratives: Participant-Researcher Roles of an Interfaith Research Group Seeking to Understand Interfaith Organizations -- 9. Internship: Situated Learning in the Department of Human and Organizational Development -- 10. Can Synergy Across Theory, Pedagogy, and Practice Guide Professional Education? The Community Development and Action and Human Development Counseling Graduate Experiences -- Conclusion: Academics in Action-Bridging Principles and Practice! -- About the Editors -- Index.
Summary: This edited volume, Academics in Action! describes a multi-disciplinary model informed by the educational philosophy of John Dewey wherein students and faculty work with communities, learn from them, and combing findings from theory and research to develop solutions to solve community problems. The volume offers innovative examples of community-engaged research, teaching, and service.
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Intro -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Half Title -- Introduction -- Part I: Theories, Frameworks, and Twenty-First Century Deweyism -- 1. John Dewey, Participatory Democracy, and University-Community Partnerships -- 2. The Ethical Foundations of Human and Organizational Development Programs: The Ethics of Human Development and Community Across the Curriculum -- Part II: Implications and Responses: Academics in Action! -- 3. Using Research to Guide Efforts to Prevent and End Homelessness -- 4. Ecological Research Promoting Positive Youth Development -- 5. Putting Boyer's Four Types of Scholarship into Practice: A Community Research and Action Perspective on Public Health -- 6. Conducting Research on Comprehensive Community Development Initiatives: Balancing Methodological Rigor and Community Responsiveness -- Part III: Academic Structures That Foster Synergy, Collaboration, and Courses -- 7. The Field School in Intercultural Education as a Model for International Service-Learning and Collaborative Action-Research Training -- 8. Creating a Mosaic of Religious Values and Narratives: Participant-Researcher Roles of an Interfaith Research Group Seeking to Understand Interfaith Organizations -- 9. Internship: Situated Learning in the Department of Human and Organizational Development -- 10. Can Synergy Across Theory, Pedagogy, and Practice Guide Professional Education? The Community Development and Action and Human Development Counseling Graduate Experiences -- Conclusion: Academics in Action-Bridging Principles and Practice! -- About the Editors -- Index.

This edited volume, Academics in Action! describes a multi-disciplinary model informed by the educational philosophy of John Dewey wherein students and faculty work with communities, learn from them, and combing findings from theory and research to develop solutions to solve community problems. The volume offers innovative examples of community-engaged research, teaching, and service.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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