citation_author
Silka, Linda
citation_volume
11
citation_author
Glover, Robert
citation_author
Hutchins, Karen
citation_author
Lindenfeld, Laura
citation_author
Blackstone, Amy
citation_publication_date
2013
citation_author
Elliott, Catherine
citation_title
Moving Beyond the Single Discipline: Building a Scholarship of Engagement that Permeates Higher Education
citation_author
Ladenheim, Melissa
citation_author
Sullivan, Claire
citation_pdf_url
https://repozytorium.kozminski.edu.pl/system/files/352-1245-1-PB.pdf
citation_issue
4
citation_journal_title
Tamara: Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry
citation_issn
1532-5555
citation_firstpage
41
citation_lastpage
52
dcterms.title
Moving Beyond the Single Discipline: Building a Scholarship of Engagement that Permeates Higher Education
dcterms.creator
Silka
dcterms.subject
interdisciplinary research, engaged scholarship, community engagement, stakeholders, sustainability, community based par, transdisciplinary engagement
dcterms.description
Communities 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.
dcterms.contributor
Silka
dcterms.date
2013
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Text
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text/html
dcterms.identifier
https://repozytorium.kozminski.edu.pl/pub/6420
dcterms.abstract
Communities 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.
dcterms.language
en
dcterms.modified
2021-10-21T13:44+02:00