Creating Dangerously

Authors

  • Eric DeMeulenaere Clark University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18060/22683

Keywords:

activism, engaged scholarship, tenure, community-engagement, academia

Abstract

Universities and scholars have long wrestled with the types of impact they want their work to have on the world.  This narrative explores the challenge of impact from the perspective of a recently tenured professor reflecting on his case for tenure and his struggle to fit his activist scholarship within the genre of the tenure case, which requires candidates to explain their work and its impact.  Through an examination of this struggle, the author identifies three challenges that universities need to confront if they want to enable more community-engaged scholarship: 1) The problem of expertise, 2) the problem of genre, and 3) the problem of focus.  If and when the academy begins to address these challenges, the author argues, activist scholars will no longer have to hide the nature of their community engaged work and their scholarship will be able to better reach larger audiences beyond the academy.

Author Biography

Eric DeMeulenaere, Clark University

Associate Professor, Urban Schooling, Department of Education
Jacob Hiatt Center for Urban Education
Clark University
Worcester, MA 01610-1477

phone: 508.421.3750
email: edemeulenaere@clarku.edu

References

Camus, A. (1961). Resistance, Rebellion and Death. (J. O’Brien, Trans.). New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf. (Original work published in 1960).
Dandicat, E. (2011). Create dangerously: The immigrant artist at work. New York, NY: Vintage Books.
Gramsci, A. (1971). Selections from the Prison Notebooks (Q. Hoare & G. N. Smith, Trans.). New York: International Publishers Co.
hooks, b. (1994). Teaching to transgress: Education as the practice of freedom. New York, NY: Routledge.
Horton, M., & Freire, P. (1990). We make the road by walking: Conversations on education and social change. Temple University Press.
Lorde, A. (1984/2007). Sister outsider: Essays and speeches. New York, NY: Ten Speed Press.
Tuck, E. & Yang, K. W. (2014). R-word: Refusing research. In D. Paris & M. T. Winn (Eds.) Humanizing research: Decolonizing qualitative inquiry with youth and communities (pp. 223-248). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Woodson, C. G. (1933). The mis-education of the Negro. Washington, D.C.: Associated Publishers.

Downloads

Published

2018-12-19