Questioning ‘the public’: exploring the meanings of public engagement in higher education
This article discusses an example of public engagement involving university staff and students, a local charity and older residents in a community oral history project. It is based on participants’ oral and written accounts of their involvement. It critically examines the meanings of public, engagem...
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| description | This article discusses an example of public engagement involving university staff and students, a local charity and older residents in a community oral history project. It is based on participants’ oral and written accounts of their involvement. It critically examines the meanings of public, engagement and public good created through the project in relation to neoliberalism. It discusses publics as ‘emergent’ and various public engagement activities as ‘assemblages’, formed in particular historical and ideological discursive contexts, and reflects critically on the usefulness of these conceptualisations. It also reviews the operation of a potential counterpublic and its implications. |
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| spelling | oai:repository.londonmet.ac.uk:68812023-12-20T12:59:53Z https://repository.londonmet.ac.uk/6881/ Questioning ‘the public’: exploring the meanings of public engagement in higher education Gabriel, John Harding, Jennifer 370 Education This article discusses an example of public engagement involving university staff and students, a local charity and older residents in a community oral history project. It is based on participants’ oral and written accounts of their involvement. It critically examines the meanings of public, engagement and public good created through the project in relation to neoliberalism. It discusses publics as ‘emergent’ and various public engagement activities as ‘assemblages’, formed in particular historical and ideological discursive contexts, and reflects critically on the usefulness of these conceptualisations. It also reviews the operation of a potential counterpublic and its implications. Informa UK Limited 2023 Article PeerReviewed text en https://repository.londonmet.ac.uk/6881/1/Questioning%20%27the%20public%27%20May%20%2022nd%202022%20.pdf Gabriel, John and Harding, Jennifer (2023) Questioning ‘the public’: exploring the meanings of public engagement in higher education. Teaching in Higher Education, 28 (8). pp. 2089-2103. ISSN 1470-1294 https://doi.org/10.1080/13562517.2021.1952564 10.1080/13562517.2021.1952564 10.1080/13562517.2021.1952564 |
| spellingShingle | 370 Education Gabriel, John Harding, Jennifer Questioning ‘the public’: exploring the meanings of public engagement in higher education |
| title | Questioning ‘the public’: exploring the meanings of public engagement in higher education |
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