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Moving Beyond the Single Discipline: Building a Scholarship of Engagement that Permeates Higher Education

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2013
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dc.abstract.plCommunities face complex problems that are best addressed by integrating the perspectives of multiple disciplines, yet many forms of engaged scholarship remain disciplinarily specific. Universities struggle to bring together highly disparate disciplines linking knowledge with action to address community problems. Sustainability is an important example of a complex, urgent problem that is best addressed by integrating multiple disciplines. In the United States, a unique multi-year initiative, Maine’s Sustainability Solutions Initiative (SSI), addresses sustainability problems by working across disciplines on engaged research. Scholars, representing multiple disciplines and most of the higher education institutions in the state, working with their community partners, are addressing sustainability problems related to landscape change, specifically urbanization, forest ecosystem management, and climate change. This initiative is composed of over two dozen interdisciplinary, engaged research projects that include diverse stakeholders (e.g., nongovernmental organizations, communities, policy organizations, and governmental leaders) as members of the research teams. Reflecting on the challenges of involving multiple disciplines in research projects, we discuss SSI as an exemplar of interdisciplinary, engaged campus initiatives. The scale and reach of the initiative (on-campus and statewide), the number of disciplines and stakeholders involved in the project, and the conversations around engaged scholarship occurring at the University of Maine capture the challenges and opportunities of moving the scholarship of engagement beyond the isolated work of individual disciplines.
dc.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Maine
dc.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Maine
dc.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Maine
dc.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Maine
dc.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Maine
dc.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Maine
dc.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Maine
dc.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Maine
dc.contributor.authorLinda Silka
dc.contributor.authorRobert Glover
dc.contributor.authorKaren Hutchins
dc.contributor.authorLaura Lindenfeld
dc.contributor.authorAmy Blackstone
dc.contributor.authorCatherine Elliott
dc.contributor.authorMelissa Ladenheim
dc.contributor.authorClaire Sullivan
dc.date.accessioned2025-07-25T16:42:43Z
dc.date.available2025-07-25T16:42:43Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.date.published2013
dc.description.issue4
dc.description.physical41-52
dc.description.volume11
dc.identifier.issn1532-5555
dc.identifier.urihttps://repozytorium.kozminski.edu.pl/handle/item/2852
dc.languageen
dc.relation.ispartofTamara: Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry
dc.relation.pages41-52
dc.rightsCC-BY-4.0
dc.subjectinterdisciplinary research
dc.subjectengaged scholarship
dc.subjectcommunity engagement
dc.subjectstakeholders
dc.subjectsustainability
dc.subjectcommunity based par
dc.subjecttransdisciplinary engagement
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Moving Beyond the Single Discipline: Building a Scholarship of Engagement that Permeates Higher Education

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