University community engagement and lifelong learning: the porous university

2018 ◽  
Vol 37 (6) ◽  
pp. 769-772
Author(s):  
Janice McMillan
Keyword(s):  
Community Engagement ◽  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
University Community

Toward authentic university-community engagement

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Mark G. Chupp ◽  
Adrianne M. Fletcher ◽  
James P. Graulty
Keyword(s):  
Community Engagement ◽  
University Community

Better Together

2018 ◽  
pp. 1229-1249
Author(s):  
Michelle R. Desilets ◽  
Jennifer DeJonghe ◽  
Michelle Filkins
Keyword(s):  
Community Engagement ◽  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
Saint Paul ◽  
Public Library ◽  
Learning Center ◽  
State University ◽  
Collaborative Relationships ◽  
Current State ◽  
Shared Space ◽  
History Of

The Library and Learning Center at Metropolitan State University is a shared space between the Metropolitan State University Library and a branch of the Saint Paul Public Library system. This chapter reviews the literature on joint use libraries and provides a history of the planning and development of the Library and Learning Center. In detailing the history of both organizations and the current state of collaboration ten years after the building opened, this chapter will describe how the experience at Metropolitan State aligns with that of similar joint use libraries. Furthermore, by highlighting collaborative services and programming, the chapter will be instructive for libraries that wish to form collaborative relationships outside of a joint use model. It will also describe the strengths of the joint use model in meeting the shared goals of community engagement and lifelong learning, while remaining cognizant of the challenges that are inherent in any joint use library initiative.

Supporting Community Engagement Through Real-World Instructional Learning

2021 ◽  
pp. 415-431
Author(s):  
Caroline M. Crawford ◽  
Janice Moore Newsum ◽  
Sharon Andrews White ◽  
Jennifer Young Wallace
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
Real World ◽  
Higher Order ◽  
Instructional Process ◽  
Community Environment ◽  
New Information ◽  
Instructional Environments ◽  
Competency Based

The ability to attain knowledge for implementation within real-world environments is a shift in understanding within many instructional environments. Shifting from competency-based understandings wherein a knowledge base is attained as well as implemented towards a capability-based understanding that emphasizes the conceptual framework of information shift towards higher order knowledge creation within novel situations and environments is essential. Lifelong learning within nuanced understandings of new situations and new experiences is essential. Normally, these novel situations and experiences occur within a real-world community environment wherein the learner is critically analyzing new information and opinions from innumerable engaged people within the community. This style of learning is vital to understand within a competency-based learning environment, as well. Therefore, real-world instructional learning embeds the supporting community engagement at distinctly appropriate and impactful points throughout the instructional process, resulting in outstanding conceptual frameworks with the continuous understanding around cognitive engagement.

University-Community Links

2021 ◽  
pp. 31-64
Keyword(s):  
Community Engagement ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Early Experience ◽  
Educational Activity ◽  
Local Institutions ◽  
Collaborative Activity ◽  
Community Partners ◽  
Working Together ◽  
K 12 ◽  
University Community

This chapter offers a cultural historical perspective on a multi-site dispersed community of collaboratively engaged university and community partners called University-Community Links (UC Links). The chapter begins by defining the concept of university-community engagement and moves to an ethnographic description of university-community engagement as a sociotechnical activity system. Viewing UC Links in this conceptual framework enables us to examine the educational activity between K-12 and university students and how localized activity is implemented and developed through collaborative activity among adults working together across the multiple boundaries of local institutions. The chapter explores how those localized efforts are both extended and limited, influenced, and enhanced by collaborative activity at much broader organizational and macrosocial planes of activity. This multi-layered analysis begins with the early experience of a young participant at La Clase Mágica, one of the two original Solana Beach, California sites out of which the broader UC Links initiative emerged.

The Ivory Tower in a World of Trouble

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-30
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Collaborative Learning ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
Ivory Tower ◽  
Joint Activity ◽  
Community Partners ◽  
Expansive Learning ◽  
Ethnographic Approach ◽  
Shared Activity ◽  
University Community

This chapter introduces the authors' approach to university-community engagement as the process of collaborative learning among the young people engaged in afterschool activities run by University-Community Links (UC Links), along with the community and university people who have collectively engaged in designing, planning, and implementing those program activities. The prevalence of social displacement among community participants suggests a primary point for understanding the role that universities can play by engaging in the larger world. The chapter introduces the authors' ethnographic approach to the study of expansive learning among collaborating community and university partners as they confront dilemmas implicit in their engagement in joint activity and come to view their shared activity from an expanded perspective that transforms how they work together. The chapter then describes the historical emergence of UC Links, a California initiative that connects university and community partners in addressing pervasive social displacement and educational inequities.

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