Neoliberal social inclusion? The agenda of the Australian Universities Community Engagement Alliance
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12906259 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Peacock (0000-0001-9699-6110, The University of Queensland, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 311-325 |
| Publication date | 2012-08-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critical Studies in Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1750-8487 • E-ISSN: 1750-8495 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17508487.2012.703138 |
| OpenAlex | W1580054921 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 9 |
University–community engagement (UCE) represents a hybrid discourse and a set of practices within contemporary higher education. As a modality of research and teaching, ‘engagement’ denotes the process of universities forming partnerships with external communities for the promised generation of mutually beneficial and socially responsive knowledge, leading to enhanced economic, social and cultural developments. A critical discourse analysis (Fairclough 2003 Fairclough, N. 2003. Analysing discourse: Textual analysis for social research, London: Routledge. [Crossref] , [Google Scholar]. Analysing Discourse: Textual analysis for social research. London: Routledge) of the Australian Universities Community Engagement Alliance's (AUCEA) ‘Position Paper’(2008 Universities and community engagement (Position paper 2008–2010)), as reported in this article, suggests that its uneasy synthesis of neoliberal, social inclusion and civic engagement discourses into a hybrid UCE discourse semantically privileges neoliberal forms of engagement. Perhaps, as a result, the AUCEA seems to have missed an opportunity to influence the Australian ‘widening participation’ debate on securing access and opportunity for marginalised students at universities and building social and cultural capital within their communities of origin
Alliance · Community engagement · Cultural capital · Inclusion (mineral · Media studies · Neoliberalism (international relations · Pedagogy · Political science · Position (finance · Public relations · Social capital · Social engagement · Social science · Sociology · Student engagement · Community Development and Social Impact · Higher Education Practises and Engagement · Law · Service-Learning and Community Engagement
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| Citations per year | 0.54 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2013 - 2024 (12) |
| Highly cited | No |