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A Laboratory for Public Scholarship and Democracy: New Directions for Teaching and Learning (J-B TL Single Issue Teaching and Learning)
A Laboratory for Public Scholarship and Democracy New Directions for Teaching and Learning - J-B TL Single Issue Teaching and Learning Author:Rosa A. Eberly, Jeremy Cohen This volume of New Directions for Teaching and Learning offers insights into how and why public scholarship has grown and is beginning to sustain itself at Penn State University and beyond. The research and writing contained here was generated by faculty and graduate students active in Penn State's Laboratory for Public Scholarship and De... more »mocracy. The chapters in this issue attempt to:
Examine the constitutional roots of public scholarship
Distinguish between public scholarship and service
Propose a framework for researching individual, organizational, and epistemological factors that shape faculty engagement in public scholarship
Review developmental studies of youth and public scholarship
Provide a narrative of student and faculty work in the American Indian Housing Initiative
Make baseline explications for assessing public scholarship outcomes
Provide a postmodern critique of expertise in the context of public scholarship
In the final chapter, Judith Ramaley looks at the promise of public scholarship, from beyond the institutional site of Penn State, for higher education and democracy. This is the 105th volume of the Jossey-Bass quarterly report series New Directions for Teaching and Learning.« less