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Higher Education Collaboratives For Community Engagement And Improvement, Penny A. Pasque, Bruce L. Mallory, Ryan E. Smerek, Brighid Dwyer, Nick Bowman
Higher Education Collaboratives For Community Engagement And Improvement, Penny A. Pasque, Bruce L. Mallory, Ryan E. Smerek, Brighid Dwyer, Nick Bowman
Education
Our society is in a period of dramatic change with the transition from an industrial-based to a knowledge-based economy, as well as technological advances, fiscal challenges of higher education, and cultural shifts in society as a whole. Increasing collaborations between communities and universities in order to influence the public good becomes paramount during this time of dramatic change. As frustratingly slow as the movement to strengthen the relationship between higher education and society sometimes seems to be, few social institutions are better situated than colleges and universities to stimulate significant community improvement. Individually and collectively, institutions of higher education possess …
The National Research Council Recommendations: Education As Intervention?, Sarah M. Stitzlein
The National Research Council Recommendations: Education As Intervention?, Sarah M. Stitzlein
Education
The National Research Council’s (NRC) recent report, Scientific Research in Education, issues an important call for increased scientific rigor within educational research. There is more at stake in the question of how to achieve good, scientific educational research than just science and how it can best be done in a community of educational researchers, however. The meaning and aims of education itself are at issue. I set out here to delineate the implicit conception of education underlying the NRC report, namely education as intervention. I will show how the committee conceives education as an instrumental intervention for solving social problems …
Political Agency And The Classroom: Reading John Dewey And Judith Butler Together., Sarah M. Stitzlein
Political Agency And The Classroom: Reading John Dewey And Judith Butler Together., Sarah M. Stitzlein
Education
In Toronto last year, several PES members joined a panel session to discuss “agency after Foucault.” Many philosophers of education, in the wake of Foucault and other recent poststructuralists, often struggle to make sense of agency, intention, and the individual subject, particularly within social justice education. Some participants in this session and others challenged certain assumptions about human subjects as autonomous, self-made, efficacious agents of social and political change, many of which were held by the pragmatists whose work largely began and continues to influence our field. In many cases, the views of pragmatists and poststructuralists are stubbornly opposed to …