Coming down from the ivory tower? Academics' civic and economic engagement with the community

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作者
Bond, R [1 ]
Paterson, L [1 ]
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[1] Univ Edinburgh, Sch Social & Polit Studies, Edinburgh EH8 9LL, Midlothian, Scotland
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10.1080/030549802500221934
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G40 [教育学];
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040101 ; 120403 ;
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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.
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