Community Engagement: some issues Rhodes University Imbizo, 22 July, 2006, Mpekweni by Guy Berger.
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Community
Engagement:
some issuesRhodes University Imbizo, 22 July, 2006, Mpekweni
by Guy Berger
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Coming up
•Context & definitions
•Trade-offs in TL-R-C• A perspective beyond the university’s
corporate point of view•Partnership issues
•Resources & priorities
•Resolutions
1. Introduction
Post-94: Accountability
HEQC: Put community service in visionVC s in 2000: helps teach citizenship
BUT:
Substantive or symbolic matter?
2. Definitions
CE
2. Definitions
CE
CS
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CS
SL
2. Definitions
What is community?
–State bodies?
–Industry associations?
–Critique or only constructive?
– Include a controversial contribution?
3. Trade-offs & integrations
CHE view is ― make a move from:
Silos to Simultaneityversus
Prioritise 1st & 2nd
functionalities?
T RC T CR →
3. Trade-offs & integrations
Service ←goal→ Learning
Learning ← outcome → Research
Learning ←CE → Research
4. Whose point of view?
• CE as a good in-itself, not only in institutional interests.
• But assessing players’ points of view:
helps with sustainability.
• Even reluctant students benefit.
• How ensure symmetry of benefit:
Community ←beneficiary → Campus
5. Partnership: who helps who?
Paternalism? or “research”“Opportunity to break myopic preoccupation with academic forms of learning by validating indigenous, tacit and pre-theoretical knowledge endemic to the non-academic world”
Issue: $ contributions of each partner?Issue: Contracts – including risk management.
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6. Resources & rhetoric
CHE: “due recognition”VCs: “promoted & rewarded”
What will be mobilised, and, where relevant, at expense of what?
7. @ Rhodes?
Many projects, uneven pedagogy.
Still: CinderellaCan we go through all stages to 100%
“institutionalise”?Or: Concentrate on increasing
co-ordination of a few, even if limited impact?
8. Conclusion
• CE difficult – goes against SA trend.
• CE vision conflicts with reality in servicing industry (& unequal social order), and with aspiration to be ivory tower.
= CE is extrinsic, and new• But tensions a source of creative
energy• So, despite no resources, embrace it
Summing up• SA context calls for CE• Definitions – and open sky• Simultaneity, vs hierarchy of
functionality?• Points of view: beyond RU interests• Seeking symmetry of benefit – and
recognising knowledge input to partnership
• Resources & strategy: shoot for whole, or narrow target?
So … embrace creative tension of 3 roles:
ivory, ebony/bigben, & …
still-to-find-its-colour.
Not ignoring R, it’s a fact that a bit of TLC never did anyone any
harm!
Thank you