%0 PDF %T Educating Practical Visionaries at Tufts University: Toward Community-University Co-Learning %A Tumposky, Rebecca. %8 2017-04-19 %R http://localhost/files/hd76sb06k %X Abstract: This paper contextualizes Co-learning, an emerging practice of sustained community partnership at Tufts University's Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning (UEP). Co-learning draws upon service learning, community-based research, university/community engagement and anchor institution strategies. It seeks to cultivate sustained and reciprocal partnerships that can transform power relationships in society and in the university. The paper historicizes Co-learning within UEP's more than 40 years of community engaged learning, and through broader analysis of efforts to democratize U.S. universities, including popular movements and anti-racist struggles. Additionally it draws lessons from UEP's sustained partnerships with four organizations: Alternatives for Community and Environment (ACE), Chinese Progressive Association (CPA), Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative (DSNI), and Somerville Community Corporation (SCC). It concludes with a framework for the implementation of Co-learning, and suggests challenges, opportunities and questions it raises for the department, the university, and for the field of democratic higher education.; Thesis (M.A.)--Tufts University, 2016.; Submitted to the Dept. of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning.; Advisors: Penn Loh, and Lorlene Hoyt.; Keywords: Educational philosophy, Higher education, and Urban planning. %[ 2022-10-13 %9 Text %~ Tufts Digital Library %W Institution