Considering community capacity building and exploring engagement: contemporary universities contributing to their respective regions
Edited book (chapter)
Chapter Title | Considering community capacity building and exploring engagement: contemporary universities contributing to their respective regions |
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Book Chapter Category | Edited book (chapter) |
ERA Publisher ID | 2778 |
Book Title | Community capacity building: lessons from adult learning in Australia |
Authors | Danaher, Patrick Alan (Author), Postle, Glen David (Author) and Burton, Lorelle Jane (Author) |
Editors | Postle, Glen David, Burton, Lorelle J. and Danaher, Patrick Alan |
Page Range | 5-23 |
Chapter Number | 1 |
Number of Pages | 19 |
Year | 2014 |
Publisher | NIACE |
Place of Publication | Leicester, United Kingdom |
ISBN | 9781862017221 |
9781862017252 | |
Web Address (URL) | http://shop.niace.org.uk/community-capacity-building.html |
Abstract | Contemporary universities enact numerous responsibilities to diverse constituencies and stakeholders in their respective regions. They have a distinctive and significant role to play in helping to generate community capacity building through their stores of capital and their knowledge creation and dissemination. Yet this role produces a paradox that many universities have still to resolve: the multiple manifestations and meanings of communities and the highly varied currencies at work in those communities. This multiplicity in turn makes it difficult for universities to engage effectively with their regional contexts and to contribute sustainably to community capacity building. This chapter outlines this conundrum and uses it to present the book's rationale and structure. In doing so, the editors present a framework for the subsequent chapters to highlight practice and research strategies that promote synergies between capacity building and engagement that are likely to maximise successful outcomes for universities and their regional communities. |
Keywords | Australia; capacity building; community-university relations; regions; university engagement |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 390203. Sociology of education |
390303. Higher education | |
390301. Continuing and community education | |
Public Notes | Files associated with this item cannot be displayed due to copyright restrictions. |
Byline Affiliations | School of Linguistics, Adult and Specialist Education |
School of Arts and Communication | |
School of Psychology and Counselling | |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q2575/considering-community-capacity-building-and-exploring-engagement-contemporary-universities-contributing-to-their-respective-regions
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