This presentation demonstrates community engagement skills drawn from literature and practices associated with adaptive leadership. The practice of community engagement frequently reveals adaptive challenges that resist easy resolution. Adaptive challenges occur when formerly predictable environments are altered and prompt people and organizations to change.
This discussion paper draws on cultural anthropology, narratology and rhetorical analysis to offer a conceptual analysis of the practice of higher education engagement.
The Knowledge Cities Summit, held in Melbourne last week, was an important opportunity for academics, government and business to talk with each other about the emerging features of economic and social development, and the ways in which different kinds of knowledge contribute. As the ‘new club of Paris’ would say, it is the challenge of developing with the unlimited resources which knowledge offers.
Australian Universities Community Engagement Alliance
Sydney
Australia
The Australian Universities Community Engagement Alliance (AUCEA) invites you to participate in its next annual conference, "Next Steps: Building a New Engagement Agenda," July 11-13, 2011 in Sydney. Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH) executive director Sarena Seifer and CCPH board chair Susan Gust co-keynoted this year's AUCEA conference and found the issues, challenges and rewards of community-academic partnerships to be remarkably similar across Australia, Canada and the US - there is much we can learn from each other!&nb
A brief report on our Big Tent global audio-video conversation. Please post this on your web-sites and distribute as appropriate. Thanks to Nirmala Lall from GACER and Alison Peacock from the Institute of Education for their work on this. Thanks to all of you again for making this first experiment so productive.
