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Engagement Matters: Curriculum Challenges For Universities
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Engagement Matters: Curriculum Challenges For Universities

James Nyland Professor and David Davies Professor
Transform: The Journal of Engaged Scholarship
Engagement Australia Ltd
2021
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Abstract

This new book addresses four major themes through articles published over more than a ten year period on University Engagement. University engagement is a kaleidoscope. It extends far and wide in higher education and it reaches into schools, colleges, industries and communities of every kind that have an interest in higher learning. Eminent academics have published their thoughts on it and every individual student has had personal experience of it. It is ubiquitous wherever an institution in higher education reaches out to a community. Yet there can be no recipe book which covers all the aspects and all the different meanings of engagement and, like ‘community and industry’, it is everywhere desired but difficult to grasp. This single volume brings together writings specifically on key aspects of university engagement and the curriculum. The approach is rooted in a belief that every curriculum is an ordering of knowledge. Knowledge is not simply a neutral and objective reality but rather a set of emphases and choices which give expression to certain values. The value position of the collection is clear: in the developing 21st century we need a university curriculum that is designed for a specific set of social purposes and that these are becoming ever more urgent yet ever more contested. In exploring the ideas and themes in this book over more than a decade, we have revisited and extended their reach and scope. We hope you the reader can see a ‘thread through time’ in this work.

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