Community engagement is ... : revisiting Boyer's model of scholarship

Renwick Kerry; Mark Selkrig; Catherine Manathunga; Ron 'Kim' Keamy

doi:10.1080/07294360.2020.1712680

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Community engagement is ... : revisiting Boyer's model of scholarship

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Community engagement is ... : revisiting Boyer's model of scholarship

Renwick Kerry, Mark Selkrig, Catherine Manathunga and Ron 'Kim' Keamy

Higher Education Research & Development, Vol.39(6), pp.1232-1246

2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2020.1712680

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community engagement

service

public scholarship

academic work

Criticisms have been levelled at academics at a time when funding of universities is increasingly tied to private and corporate purposes and when academics are held accountable through a hierarchy of functions. Claims are also made that academics work within narrow specializations and are removed from real-world experience and problems. Boyer's model of scholarship offers four categories of scholarship that remain relevant to understanding and guiding the work of academics, including how they engage with communities. To explore the nature of academics' work, we draw on data provided by a group of academics who participated in a research project using both sociological elicitation and visual arts-based research methodologies. The participants were asked to explore what various aspects of current academic work mean for them by providing an image and text, akin to creating a postcard. In this article, we focus on responses they provided to the prompt 'Community engagement is horizontal ellipsis ' The postcards show how community engagement can be interpreted in diverse ways and that, along with teaching and research, community engagement are all integrated, mutually reinforcing drivers and outcomes of academic work.

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Title: Community engagement is ... : revisiting Boyer's model of scholarship
Authors: Renwick Kerry (Author) - University of British Columbia, Canada
Mark Selkrig (Author) - University of Melbourne
Catherine Manathunga (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - School of Education
Ron 'Kim' Keamy (Author) - University of Melbourne
Publication details: Higher Education Research & Development, Vol.39(6), pp.1232-1246
Publisher: Routledge
Date published: 2020
DOI: 10.1080/07294360.2020.1712680
ISSN: 0729-4360
Organisation Unit: School of Education - Legacy; Indigenous and Transcultural Research Centre; School of Education and Tertiary Access; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99450984702621
Output Type: Journal article

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