Action Research
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Supporting Public Humanities at the Critical Intersections: An Imagining America Manifesto
November 26, 2024
We are excited to share a recent publication by IA Faculty Director, Erica Kohl-Arenas, from the recently launched journal, Public Humanities. In this research paper and manifesto, Kohl-Arenas proposes five critical ways in which institutions of higher education can better support public humanities.
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Democratically Engaged Assessment: Reimagining the Purposes and Practices of Assessment in Community Engagement
November 13, 2024
The 2018 white paper by the APPS Research Group offers in-depth exploration of the framework, thinking, and “found pilots” to support the model of Democratically Engaqed Assessment (DEA).
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Critical Intersections: Public Scholars Creating Culture, Catalyzing Change
March 3, 2023
In this report, we provide an overview of the research agenda, the research and dialogue methodologies engaged, and findings from one aspect of the research: interviews with fifty change-oriented administrators, public scholars, and community-based culture keepers.
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Preliminary Findings from the Publicly Active Graduate Education Research Project
October 20, 2022
The following report provides an account of the experiences of engaged graduate students (IA member and non-IA member institutions) and Publicly Active Graduate Education (PAGE) alumni in graduate school.
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Civic Professionalism: A Pathway to Practical Wisdom for the Liberal Arts
June 30, 2016
White Paper prepared for Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life on behalf of the Engaged Undergraduate Education Research Group with support from the Teagle Foundation’s “Faculty Work and Student Learning in the 21st Century” initiative.
