Coming down from the ivory tower? Academics’ civic and economic engagement with the community
Coming down from the ivory tower? Academics’ civic and economic engagement with the community
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从象牙塔走下来？学者与社区的公民和经济参与
DOI：
10.1080/03054980500221934
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发表时间：
2005
影响因子：
2
通讯作者：
Lindsay Paterson
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文献类型：
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作者：
Ross Bond;Lindsay Paterson
本文从学者个人的角度考察了大学与社区互动的程度和性质。它认为学术价值观和实践是否倾向于一个“分离”或“普遍主义”的角度来看，位置在很大程度上是多余的，任何感知的“社区”具有全球性，或是否价值观和实践实际上表明一个显着的，也许是很大程度上的社区参与在地方，区域或国家一级。我们探索与社区的互动，采取广泛的“公民”形式，这是更具体的经济相关性。在高等教育无论是在公共资金的使用方面，还是在其更广泛的社会和经济目的方面，都已成为政治审查的一个更明显的对象之际，这一问题非常重要。我们的研究结果是基于对学者样本进行的邮寄问卷调查，以及对较小的受访者子样本进行的一系列后续访谈。我们的结论是，学者表现出强烈的承诺，参与和互动与他们的社区在原则上和实践中，这种互动往往发生在不同的地理水平，它往往是在不太有利的情况下完成。
This paper examines the degree and nature of universities’ interaction with their communities from the perspectives of individual academics. It considers whether academic values and practice tend toward a ‘detached’ or ‘universalist’ perspective in which location is largely redundant and any perceived ‘community’ has a global character, or whether values and practice in fact indicate a significant perhaps substantial degree of community engagement at a local, regional or national level. We explore interaction with the community which takes a broadly ‘civic’ form, and that which is of more specifically economic relevance. This issue is of great importance at a time when higher education has become a more obvious object of political scrutiny, both in terms of its use of public funds and its more general social and economic purpose. Our findings are based on a postal questionnaire administered to a sample of academics, and a series of follow‐up interviews with a smaller sub‐sample of respondents. We conclude that academics exhibit a strong commitment to engagement and interaction with their communities both in principle and practice; that such interaction often takes place at a variety of geographical levels; and that it is often accomplished under less than propitious circumstances.