Background document for university - community engagement
| dc.contributor.author | Office of Community-Based Research (OCBR) | |
| dc.contributor.author | Dragne, Cornelia | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-06-26T16:32:58Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-06-26T16:32:58Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2007 | |
| dc.description | The Office of Community-Based Research provided the organizational and research support and commissioned this background paper to back-up and support the deliberations. We invited Cornelia Dragne, a Doctoral candidate in Leadership Studies in the Faculty of Education to take the lead in the preparation of the background document. | |
| dc.description.abstract | The report examined the ways universities coordinate their engagement efforts from the university's side, by examining academic reports and universities websites. Being a two-way relationship, the picture would have been complete if the community side would have been presenting its own account. However, due to the large number of different interactions with various community partners, even for a single university such picture is not feasible for this report to build. Academics engaged in community-based research and activities are people committed to the idea of engagement and its strong supporters. By reviewing accounts of existing institutional commitments, the report presents a view strongly supportive of the idea that allocating institutional resources to university-community engagement is the way to go. The report overlooks the epistemological debates surrounding engagement scholarship and community-based forms of research, as well as the concerns about the ethics of academic-community interaction. Another limitation stems from the fact that English language was used for all the searches. | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Office of Community-Based Research, & Dragne, C. (2007). Background document for university - community engagement. University of Victoria. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1828/22431 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | University of Victoria | |
| dc.title | Background document for university - community engagement | |
| dc.type | Report |