Coming to critical engagement : an autoethnographic exploration / Frank A. Fear ... [and others] ; edited by Patricia P. Miller ; foreword by Jeffrey S. Nielsen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fear, Frank A.

Contributor:

Miller, Patricia P.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Interpersonal communication--Social aspects.

Interpersonal communication.

Dialogue.

Decision making.

Interpersonal relations.

Communication in organizations.

Social aspects.

Physical Description:

xix, 301 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, MD : University Press of America, [2006]

Summary:

Engagement is the label increasingly embraced by higher education to describe activities associated with serving the public interest. What had been viewed previously as service to, extension of, and outreach from is now engagement with as faculty members, students, and staff collaborate with partners in community affairs. This book describes how members of a faculty learning community have come to understand engagement as both intellectual endeavor and scholarly practice at the interface between academy and citizenry. Coming to Critical Engagement makes explicit the authors' frame of reference in their engagement work and presents examples of their engagements. The work argues that the academy has a moral imperative to participate deliberately and consistently in democratic and systemic discourse with the public.

Contents:

Part I A Frame of Reference

Chapter 1 Finding Our Voice: Locating Our Place 1

Chapter 2 Stories of Critical Engagement 23

Chapter 3 Living Our Way into a New Way of Thinking: An Exploration of Mindful Inquiry 43

Chapter 4 Have We Ever Been Critically Engaged? 77

Part II Digging into Engagement

Chapter 5 Learning Through Discourse 109

Chapter 6 From Building Connections to Developing Social Capital to Leverage Change 133

Chapter 7 Co-Empowerment and Working toward Betterment 155

Chapter 8 Critical Engagement, Transformation, and Development 179

Part III Making Sense of It All

Chapter 9 Coming to Critical Engagement: Personal Implications 245

Chapter 10 Coming to Critical Engagement: Intellectual Implications 257.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0761834702

0761834710

OCLC:

70892340

Publisher Number:

9780761834700 (clothbound : alk. paper)

9780761834717 (paperback : alk. paper)