Introduction

• Published in: Going Public p. 131
• Main Authors: Judy Primavera, Hiram E. Fitzgerald
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Michigan State University Press 01.09.2013
• Subjects: Academic communities; Behavioral sciences; Collaboration; College students; Communities; Community engagement; Community participation; Correctional institutions; Correctional system; Criminal justice; Criminal law; Economic disciplines; Economics; Education; Educational institutions; Epistemology; Formal education; Human behavior; Human societies; Labor; Labor economics; Law; Philosophy; Prisons; Research universities; Schools; Social behavior; Social groups; Social interaction; Sociology; Students; Universities; Volunteer labor; Workforce
• ISBN: 161186089X; 9781611860894

The “new scholarship” set in motion by Boyer, Lynton, and the Kellogg Commission is a scholarship ofaction, a scholarship ofpracticethat takes place bothinandwiththe community. This scholarship of practice challenges higher education’s age-old accepted epistemologies and requires a new set of norms regarding what counts as legitimate knowledge and what methodologies are acceptable means of acquiring such knowledge (Schön, 1995). It is a scholarship that frees the academy from the confinement of its myopic, reductionist, patriarchal, and self-serving scope of intellectual inquiry by offering a more expansive, more egalitarian, and more socially utilitarian model