A Scholarship of Engagement

The Scholarship of Engagement in nursing.

We propose the time is right for the Scholarship of Engagement to serve as a model of scholarship in schools of nursing given the shift towards community-based research and the emphasis of community-based research in the recently published National Institutes of Health (NIH) roadmap initiative. Thus, this article addresses the need of nursing academe to embrace a broader paradigm of scholarship...

The Scholarship of Engagement: A Taxonomy of Five Emerging Practices

A new form of scholarship, the scholarship of engagement, is emerging as a distinct set of practices within the general movement toward civic renewal in American higher education. This essay defines the core aspects of the scholarship of engagement and creates a taxonomy of five forms of engaged scholarship. Using a problem-driven, pluralistic approach, this essay concludes that the new forms o...

Ac 2007-1511: Student Engagement and Faculty Scholarship

Spaces, Gaps, Exchanges, and Student Engagement: A Review of Recent Trends in Formative Feedback Scholarship

This review examines the spaces, gaps, exchanges, and engagements associated with formative feedback in higher education – an area that has enjoyed extensive scholarly attention over the last two decades. Over time, a consensus has developed privileging timely, specific, supportive, and explanatory feedback over less effective measures that rely much too heavily upon directive, overly-negative,...

Transforming Cities and Minds through the Scholarship of Engagement: Economy, Equity, and Environment

Lorlene Hoyt addresses the difficult question of how the scholarship of engagement fits into, and is valued by, major research universities. Arguing that ‘[t]he thesis experiment is broken’ (p. 213), Hoyt sets out to redesign the individualised and isolating experience of writing a research thesis into a collaborative process driven by peer critique and support. This book presents the results o...