Community-University Partnerships as Co-Learning: Towards a More Democratic and Transformative Model.
Loh, Penn.
Tumposky, Rebecca.
2015
- This paper lays out a "co-learning" model, which aspires to cultivate long-term, placebased, reciprocal partnerships where university and community "co-produce" knowledge and action towards a more just, sustainable, and democratic society. This model is developed from our own practice and recent initiatives to deepen community strategies at the Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and ... read morePlanning at Tufts University. We highlight our long-time partnership with the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative. Colearning draws upon traditions of community based and action research, service learning, university-community engagement, and universities as anchor institutions. But whereas these approaches typically focus on only one aspect of the tripartite mission of modern universities -- student learning, faculty research, or community impact, co-learning integrates teaching, research, and service into a democratic and transformative practice in a specific place. Co-learning re-envisions the role of the university in its immediate locale, as a place to recruit and educate students, create knowledge of local value (with global implications), and support local community and economic development. Co-learning partnerships can be a platform for community-engaged learning, community-based research, advancement of community strategies, and recruitment of a more diverse student body from partner communities.read less
- Loh, Penn and Rebecca Tumposky. "Community-University Partnerships as Co-Learning: Towards a More Democratic and Transformative Model." Paper presented at the International Association for Research on Service Learning and Community Engagement Annual Conferece, New Orleans, LA, November 18, 2015.
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