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Engaging in Social Partnerships

Autor Novella Zett Keith
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 noi 2011
If many Higher Education partnerships that involve diverse groups fall short of achieving success, how can partners overcome the common barriers and promote equity in the process?
This text is written for Higher Education Professionals who are actively engaged in collaborating with communities or organizations. Engaging in Social Partnerships prepares professionals to become reflective practitioners while working in partnerships that cross social divides. An invaluable resource, it helps partners navigate the multiple and conflicting objectives that arise in partnership practices. It further encourages the reader to enact practices that are more equitable and democratic. In order to be successful in these partnerships, professionals must look carefully at how they are influenced by factors such as race, class, gender, age, culture, histories and other differences. Unequal power relations prevailing in such partnerships affect the ability to share information, problem solve and form honest relationships. Unless these 3 essential components are properly addressed, the partnership will not be successful in achieving its overall goal.
The author, Novella Keith, breaks down the different approaches to partnership and connects the central principles of her approach through reflection and case studies. These case studies illustrate the conceptual framework for successful partnership practice.
This book:
  • Provides action oriented solutions for meeting partnership goals
  • Develops frameworks and principles against which to assess partnership, process and outcome
  • Provides a new model of democratic engagement for university-community partnerships
  • Presents key concepts that can be applied to a critical analysis of practice
Armed with this book, professionals will be equipped with the knowledge on how to apply successful models of practical democracy in their partnerships.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780415996372
ISBN-10: 0415996376
Pagini: 254
Ilustrații: 12 black & white tables
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.37 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Routledge

Cuprins

Introduction
Part I: Talking, Thinking and Learning in Partnerships
Chapter 1. Talking about partnerships: common discourses
Chapter 2. Talking about partnerships: uncommon discourses
Chapter 3. Thinking in partnerships
Part II: Becoming partners: Knowledge into action
Chapter 4. Understanding Power
Chapter 5. Communicating Across Divides
Chapter 6. Working through Organizations and Communities
Chapter 7. Bringing it Together: Practicing Partnerships Across the Divide
Part III: Conclusion

Notă biografică

Novella Zett Keith is an associate professor of Urban Education in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at Temple University.  Her 15 years at Temple, an urban university, have deepened her interest and honed her understanding of how to facilitate the ability of different groups to work together democratically.  The recipient of a distinguished teaching award, she has been a leader in her college and university in developing graduate and undergraduate courses that bring university students and community members together through university-community partnerships. This work has been supported by foundation and university grants as well as by an NGO she and collaborators have spearheaded to support international community-based learning partnerships.  Her work has been published in such journals as the Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, Educational Administration Quarterly, Theory Into Practice, Education and Urban Society, and Journal of Curriculum Studies.  She is also the co-author of two books on democratic practice and community development.