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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 formerl...
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Springer,
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| Publisher Address: | Dordrecht ; New York : |
| Publication Dates: | 2013. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4875-0 |
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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 |
| Item Description: | Includes index. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource |
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9789400748750 (electronic bk.) 9400748752 (electronic bk.) |
| Index Number: | LB2341 |
| CLC: | G640 |
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University engagement with socially excluded communities -- University Engagement with Socially Excluded Communities: Towards the Idea of 'The Engaged University' / CelebratingWorthy Conversations: Universities and Their Multiple Communities / Challenging Inequalities Through Community-University Partnerships / Universities, Regions and Social Disadvantage / Internal university transformations for effective regional engagement -- The Relationship of Community Engagement With Universities' Core Missions / University-Community Engagement: Dislocation of Theory and Practice / 'Building' Engagement into the Fabric of the University: The LabPEAT Experience in Librino, Catania, Italy / Engagement and the Idea of the Civic University / Transformations in the epistemic 'idea' of a university -- Universities' Perspectives on Community Engagement / Can Universities Really Effectively Engage with Socially Excluded Communities? Reflections on the British Experience / Translation, Insulation and Mediation: Universities and Community Engagement in an Age of Ambivalence / University-Community Engagement in the Wider Policy Environment / Policies for Promoting University-Community Engagement in Practice / Learning from History: Previous Attempts to Measure Universities' Community Impacts / The Carnegie Classification for Community Engagement: Helping Create the "New Normal" in American Higher Education? / |