Editors:
Demonstrates how curriculum reform can be used as an engine of institutional transformation at a research-intensive university
Combines theoretical and practice-based perspectives to provide an in-depth and comprehensive case study of the challenges and opportunities of university-community engagement
Emphasizes the importance of ‘learning by doing’ through reflection and continuous improvement in the pedagogical, partnership and institutional arenas
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Community-University Engagement: International Perspectives
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Community-University Engagement in Theory and Practice: Macquarie University’s PACE Initiative
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About this book
Keywords
- Academic identities
- Community Engagement Scholarship
- Community-university engagement
- Culture of learning through engagement
- Curriculum transformation
- International Perspectives on community engagement
- Learning through community engagement
- Macquarie University
- Pedagogy of community engagement
- Practice of community engagement
- Practice-based learning
- Professional and community engagement
- Scholarship of Integration
- Service learning
- Student volunteering
- Transformational Learning
- Transformational Pedagogies
- Understanding knowledge practices
- Vision in Higher Education
- Whole person learning
Editors and Affiliations
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Macquarie University School of Education, Sydney, Australia
Judyth Sachs
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PACE, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
Lindie Clark
About the editors
Lindie Clark is Academic and Programs Director, PACE at Macquarie University. In this role she is responsible for the overall management and leadership of the PACE program. She has published a monograph through Cambridge University Press, a number of book chapters , journal articles and conference presentations. Lindie holds a BSc (Hons) from Macquarie University and a MPA from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Learning Through Community Engagement
Book Subtitle: Vision and Practice in Higher Education
Editors: Judyth Sachs, Lindie Clark
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0999-0
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-0997-6Published: 19 August 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-9305-0Published: 15 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-0999-0Published: 10 August 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 319
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 17 illustrations in colour
Topics: Higher Education, Learning & Instruction, International and Comparative Education