scholarly journals The Paleoenvironmental Humanities: Climate Narratives, Public Scholarship, and Deep Futures

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-85
Author(s):  
Andrew P. Roddick
Keyword(s):  
Public Scholarship

A Brief Statement on the Future of Public Scholarship and the Research Methods Landscape

2019 ◽  
pp. 700-707
Author(s):  
Patricia Leavy
Keyword(s):  
Research Methods ◽  
Teaching Practices ◽  
Knowledge Building ◽  
Research Community ◽  
The State ◽  
Public Scholarship ◽  
Institutional Structures ◽  
The Future ◽  
Book Editor

The book editor offers some final comments about the state of the field and promise for the future. Leavy suggests researchers consider using the language of “shapes” to talk about the forms their research takes and to highlight the ongoing role of the research community in shaping knowledge-building practices. She reviews the challenges and rewards of taking your work public. Leavy concludes by noting that institutional structures need to evolve their rewards criteria in order to meet the demands of practicing contemporary research and suggests that professors update their teaching practices to bring the audiences of research into the forefront of discussions of methodology.

Arts-Based Research: Merging Social Research and the Creative Arts

2020 ◽  
pp. 600-632
Author(s):  
Gioia Chilton ◽  
Patricia Leavy
Keyword(s):  
Social Research ◽  
Mixed Media ◽  
Assessment Criteria ◽  
Creative Arts ◽  
Arts Based Research ◽  
Poetic Inquiry ◽  
Public Scholarship ◽  
Literary Forms ◽  
The Future ◽  
Methodological Principles

Arts-based research (ABR) is a rapidly growing methodological genre. Arts-based research adapts the tenets of the creative arts in social research to make that research publicly accessible, evocative, and engaged. This chapter provides a retrospective and prospective overview of the field, including a review of some of the pioneers of arts-based research, methodological principles, and robust examples of arts-based research in different artistic genres. We include literary forms such as poetic inquiry and fiction, performative forms such as playbuilding, ethnodrama, ethnotheater and film, and visual forms such as photography, collage, art journaling, and mixed media. We note researches also use multiple art forms, and evolving and innovative forms of art. We provide suggestions for (contested) assessment criteria, such as utility, aesthetics, authenticity and valuing participatory and transformative approaches. The chapter closes with our thoughts regarding the future of the field, which includes ABR’s potential to improve public scholarship.

It’s Not Just Academic—Writing Public Scholarship in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies

2011 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 164-171
Author(s):  
Carl W. Ernst
Keyword(s):  
Academic Success ◽  
Academic Writing ◽  
American Culture ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Public ◽  
Islamic Studies ◽  
Public Scholarship ◽  
Middle Eastern Studies

Everyone knows that the work of scholars in America is often considered to be irrelevant to the real issues of life. According to the mild anti-intellectualism that seems to be an endemic feature of American culture, anything that is “academic” is automatically impractical, complex, and impenetrable—in short, it is bad. This is a little hard for professors to live with; no one likes being called a pointy-headed intellectual or an egghead. The very skills and specializations that are the keys to academic success can be seen by the public as defects that remove scholars from the sphere of ordinary existence and disqualify their pronouncements. Here I would like to argue that the gap between academics and an unappreciative public is in good part a function of the language and style of communication that scholars commonly practice in all fields. But if in fact there are large segments of the public who are keenly interested in issues relating to subjects like Middle Eastern studies, or the study of Islam, it should be possible for academics to communicate the results of their labor in clear and meaningful ways. If qualified scholars do not respond to the demands of the public, we know what the alternative is: the public will remain content with the standard media sources of information and disinformation.

scholarly journals The Effectiveness of Free Education, or Again on Scholarships

2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 118-132
Author(s):  
Oleg I. Hirnyy
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
The State ◽  
State University ◽  
Access To Education ◽  
Public Scholarship ◽  
General Decline ◽  
The World ◽  
Institutional System ◽  
Methodological Aspects ◽  
Tuition Fee

The article deals with the problem of payments state university scholarships to students in question in the context of the principle of "equal access to education" and the concept of "free education." Now in Ukrainian universities there are students of two different categories: the so-called "budget students" who study for free and receive scholarship from the state, and the so-called "payers" who pay tuition fee and do not receive stipends from the state. This situation leads to decline of the scholarship’s role as a stimulator, and, as a result - to general decline of the efficiency of higher education. In this regard, methodological aspects of improving the efficiency of public scholarship funds allocated to higher education are discussed. In particular, the term "scholarship" is analyzed in the context of the value of public education as the institutional system. Unfortunately, we continue to understand this concept in the Soviet interpretation as cash payments for students who use it to meet their personal needs during training. At the same time, the world understood as non-cash aid to pay tuition fee.

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