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Engaged Research and Practice : Higher Education and the Pursuit of the Public Good by Penny A. Pasque, John C. Burkhardt, Tony Chambers, Betty Overton, Betty Overton-Adkins is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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What practices can researchers use to gain a more nuanced understanding of educational issues in the community and be part of the solution to those issues? Engaged Research and Practiceis about two prevailing and complementary ideas that have surfaced in the higher education arena: engaged research and higher education for the public good. Engaged research is scholarship that not only attempts to open up new knowledge, but it does so with a sense that the new knowledge, insight and directions have a direct relationship to needs and problems within our communities, institutions, and policy arenas. Engaged, actionable, or participatory research and scholarship attempts to tackle the identified issues of our communities and society. This handbook 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. The authors offer clear explanations of "how" their engaged

Who reads Engaged Research and Practice : Higher Education and the Pursuit of the Public Good?

Author

Penny A. Pasque, John C. Burkhardt, Tony Chambers, Betty Overton, Betty Overton-Adkins

Publisher

Stylus Publishing., LLC

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9781620364413

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Education