Co-Education/Co-Research Partnership: A Critical Approach to Co-Learning between Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative and Tufts University
Community–university partnerships that purport to promote the public good are often fraught with institutional and cultural challenges that can contribute to the injustices they seek to address. This paper describes how one partnership has been navigating these tensions through a critical approach t...
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| description | Community–university partnerships that purport to promote the public good are often fraught with institutional and cultural challenges that can contribute to the injustices they seek to address. This paper describes how one partnership has been navigating these tensions through a critical approach to power. The Co-Education/Co-Research (CORE) partnership has been built over the last decade between Tufts University and Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative, a community organizing and planning group in Boston. We have been co-producing knowledge and action to further community control over development, and we have found that institutional shifts, such as co-governance and the equitable sharing of funding, are leading to longer term impacts for the community partner and breaking down the boundaries between university and community. However, using a relational view of power, we have also found that some of our everyday practices can subtly maintain and reinforce inequities, such as valuing academic knowledge over that of community residents and practitioners. Addressing these cultural and ideological challenges requires critical and reflexive practice. It is messy relational work that requires a lot of communication and trust and, most of all, time and long-term commitment. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-2d3a39afd4504daea3680c28f1c337872023-11-23T22:05:19ZengMDPI AGSocial Sciences2076-07602022-02-011127110.3390/socsci11020071Co-Education/Co-Research Partnership: A Critical Approach to Co-Learning between Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative and Tufts UniversityPenn Loh0Zoë Ackerman1Joceline Fidalgo2Rebecca Tumposky3Department of Urban & Environmental Policy & Planning, School of Arts and Sciences, Tufts University, 97 Talbot Ave., Medford, MA 02155, USADepartment of Urban & Environmental Policy & Planning, School of Arts and Sciences, Tufts University, 97 Talbot Ave., Medford, MA 02155, USADepartment of Urban & Environmental Policy & Planning, School of Arts and Sciences, Tufts University, 97 Talbot Ave., Medford, MA 02155, USADepartment of Urban & Environmental Policy & Planning, School of Arts and Sciences, Tufts University, 97 Talbot Ave., Medford, MA 02155, USACommunity–university partnerships that purport to promote the public good are often fraught with institutional and cultural challenges that can contribute to the injustices they seek to address. This paper describes how one partnership has been navigating these tensions through a critical approach to power. The Co-Education/Co-Research (CORE) partnership has been built over the last decade between Tufts University and Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative, a community organizing and planning group in Boston. We have been co-producing knowledge and action to further community control over development, and we have found that institutional shifts, such as co-governance and the equitable sharing of funding, are leading to longer term impacts for the community partner and breaking down the boundaries between university and community. However, using a relational view of power, we have also found that some of our everyday practices can subtly maintain and reinforce inequities, such as valuing academic knowledge over that of community residents and practitioners. Addressing these cultural and ideological challenges requires critical and reflexive practice. It is messy relational work that requires a lot of communication and trust and, most of all, time and long-term commitment.https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/11/2/71community–university partnershipco-learningcommunity-engaged researchcommunity-engaged scholarship |
| spellingShingle | Penn Loh Zoë Ackerman Joceline Fidalgo Rebecca Tumposky Co-Education/Co-Research Partnership: A Critical Approach to Co-Learning between Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative and Tufts University Social Sciences community–university partnership co-learning community-engaged research community-engaged scholarship |
| title | Co-Education/Co-Research Partnership: A Critical Approach to Co-Learning between Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative and Tufts University |
| title_full | Co-Education/Co-Research Partnership: A Critical Approach to Co-Learning between Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative and Tufts University |
| title_fullStr | Co-Education/Co-Research Partnership: A Critical Approach to Co-Learning between Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative and Tufts University |
| title_full_unstemmed | Co-Education/Co-Research Partnership: A Critical Approach to Co-Learning between Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative and Tufts University |
| title_short | Co-Education/Co-Research Partnership: A Critical Approach to Co-Learning between Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative and Tufts University |
| title_sort | co education co research partnership a critical approach to co learning between dudley street neighborhood initiative and tufts university |
| topic | community–university partnership co-learning community-engaged research community-engaged scholarship |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/11/2/71 |
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