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1 online resource |
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Part 1. University engagement with socially excluded communities -- University Engagement with Socially Excluded Communities: Towards the Idea of 'The Engaged University' / Paul Benneworth -- CelebratingWorthy Conversations: Universities and Their Multiple Communities / Ros Derrett -- Challenging Inequalities Through Community-University Partnerships / Angie Hart and Kim Aumann -- Universities, Regions and Social Disadvantage / Ruth Williams and Allan Cochrane -- Part 2. Internal university transformations for effective regional engagement -- The Relationship of Community Engagement With Universities' Core Missions / Paul Benneworth, David Charles, Catherine Hodgson and Lynne Humphrey -- University-Community Engagement: Dislocation of Theory and Practice / Lynne Humphrey -- 'Building' Engagement into the Fabric of the University: The LabPEAT Experience in Librino, Catania, Italy / Laura Saija -- Engagement and the Idea of the Civic University / James Powell and Karl Dayson -- Part 3. Transformations in the epistemic 'idea' of a university -- Universities' Perspectives on Community Engagement / Paul Benneworth and Lynne Humphrey -- Can Universities Really Effectively Engage with Socially Excluded Communities? Reflections on the British Experience / Fred Robinson and Ray Hudson -- Translation, Insulation and Mediation: Universities and Community Engagement in an Age of Ambivalence / Tim May and Beth Perry -- Part 4. Transformations in the epistemic 'idea' of a university -- University-Community Engagement in the Wider Policy Environment / Paul Benneworth and David Charles -- Policies for Promoting University-Community Engagement in Practice / Paul Benneworth and Ben Jongbloed -- Learning from History: Previous Attempts to Measure Universities' Community Impacts / Ben Jongbloed and Paul Benneworth -- The Carnegie Classification for Community Engagement: Helping Create the "New Normal" in American Higher Education? / Elaine Ward, Suzanne Buglione, Dwight E. Giles Jr. and John Saltmarsh -- The Evaluation of Universities and Their Contributions to Social Exclusion / Paul Benneworth -- Part 5. Conclusions -- The Engaged University in Practice? Reinventing the Social Compact for the Grand Societal Challenges / Paul Benneworth |
| Summary |
This volume provides insightful analysis of the way higher education engages with socially excluded communities. Leading researchers and commentators examine the validity of the claim that universities can be active facilitators of social mobility, opening access to the knowledge economy for formerly excluded groups. The authors assess the extent to which the 'Academy' can deliver on its promise to build bridges with communities whose young people often assume that higher education lies beyond their ambitions. The chapters map the core dynamics of the relationship between higher education and |
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Education, Higher |
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Educational Policy and Politics |
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Administration, Organization and Leadership |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Universities and colleges -- Public relations.
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Universities and colleges -- Administration.
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EDUCATION -- Higher.
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Droit.
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Sciences sociales.
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Sciences humaines.
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Universities and colleges -- Administration
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Universities and colleges -- Public relations
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Benneworth, Paul
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| ISBN |
9789400748750 |
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9400748752 |
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9400748744 |
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9789400748743 |
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