From the Ground Up: Critical Reflections About Co-Constructing A New Non-Profit Sector Undergraduate Certificate
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چکیده
Community-university engagement is a growing field and takes many different forms. We explain reflect critically on community-university developmental process that we created to design new non-profit studies undergraduate certificate. A steering group comprising students, organizations (NPOs), faculty guided our process. adopted community-based, emergent, multi-tactic went from testing an idea, collectively designing co-constructing the certificate building momentum operationalize it, over 18-month period. Our strategy was based convergence of three main bodies literature—community-engaged scholarship, citizen participation, naturalistic inquiry—and included seven tactics: dialogues, e-communication, interactive booths in public places, presentations learning circles, student research projects, NPO surveys, pilot-testing courses. The outcomes revealed strong community support for certificate, which then co-constructed later approved by University Senate. Today, five years later, ebb flow process, particular: emergent challenges, space-in-between, community/university black boxes, ownership, facilitation work. This exploration contributes knowledge base co-construction processes.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Engaged scholar journal
سال: 2023
ISSN: ['2368-416X', '2369-1190']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15402/esj.v8i4.70789