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- Demonstrates the importance of examining and analysing the complex and contradictory relationships between UK Higher Education Institutions and their local communities.
- Provides an overview of the UK higher-education system and its historical community relationships.
- Examines the ways in which different initiatives supported by national funding bodies have shaped the public understanding of the role of universities and their relationship with their communities .
Part of the book series: Rethinking University-Community Policy Connections (REUNCOPOCO)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Keywords
- University-community engagement
- community
- university
- historical context
- characteristics of engagement
- engaged scholarship
- reciprocity
- university networks for engagement
- types of community engagement
- arts
- extension studies
- university presses
- typology
- widening participation
- AimHigher
- lifelong learning
- Continuing professional development
- massification
- inclusion
- diversity
Authors and Affiliations
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Department of Psychology, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK
Carolyn Kagan
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Edge Hill University, Ormskirk, UK
John Diamond
About the authors
John Diamond is Professor and Associate Dean for Knowledge Exchange and Innovation in the Faculty of Education, Edge Hill University, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: University–Community Relations in the UK
Book Subtitle: Engaging Universities
Authors: Carolyn Kagan, John Diamond
Series Title: Rethinking University-Community Policy Connections
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12984-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-12983-5Published: 16 May 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-12986-6Published: 14 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-12984-2Published: 07 May 2019
Series ISSN: 2629-2432
Series E-ISSN: 2629-2440
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 217
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Public Policy, Legislative and Executive Politics, British Politics, Educational Policy and Politics, Higher Education, International and Comparative Education