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Town versus gown—publish or perish. The academy is often described as an ivory tower, isolated from the community around it. This edited volume² describes a more integrated model for the academy wherein students and faculty work with communities, learn from them, and bring to bear findings from theo...

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Hauptverfasser:	SANDRA L. BARNES, LAUREN BRINKLEY-RUBINSTEIN, BERNADETTE DOYKOS, NINA C. MARTIN, ALLISON MCGUIRE
Format:	Buchkapitel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Academic learning Applied psychology Applied sciences Area development Behavioral sciences Cognitive processes Cognitive psychology Collaboration Collaborative learning Communities Community action Community development Community participation Development studies Education Educational institutions Educational psychology Formal education Human behavior Human societies Interdisciplinary research Learning Learning styles Modeling Psychology Research methods Research universities Schools Social behavior Social groups Social interaction Social sciences Sociology Universities
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Zusammenfassung:	Town versus gown—publish or perish. The academy is often described as an ivory tower, isolated from the community around it. This edited volume² describes a more integrated model for the academy wherein students and faculty work with communities, learn from them, and bring to bear findings from theory and research on generating solutions for solving community problems. Because social problems are not the provenance of any one discipline, the model is inherently interdisciplinary, wherein theory and action span multiple ecological levels from individuals and small groups to organizations and social structures. The communities of engagement range from local neighborhoods