Higher Education, Community Connections and Collaborations

This book innovatively explores the policy, practice and pedagogy of community engagement in higher education settings. It contributes to the evaluation of adaptive practice and responses in addressing inequalities further exposed by the pandemic, and the role of higher education institutions within this. By exploring such themes, contributors highlight implications for future practice and suggest areas for further pedagogical development. The book also includes perspectives on the patterns of change in higher education asking crucial questions pertaining to its role in regeneration and recovery as it seeks to work for, within, and between communities and constituencies. While it foregrounds youth and community work, it makes wider and systemic connections between communities and higher education institutions.>

About the author

Sinéad Gormally is a Professor of Community Development and Youth at the University of Glasgow, UK. She is Deputy Head of School of the School of Education (strategy and planning). Her research focuses on how youth and community work practitioners can create positive social change, as well as the impact of violence and conflict on individuals and communities.Abigail Maguire is Director of Learning and Student Experience and part of the Executive Leadership Team at Moorlands College, Dorset, UK. She lectures in Applied Theology, and Youth and Community work. Her research is in pedagogy in faith-based contexts.Mike Seal has three part-time roles: Director of the Centre for Research into the Education of Marginalised Children and Young Adults (CREMCYA) and Professor of Youth and Community Education, St Mary’s University Twickenham, UK, Professor of Critical Pedagogy at Birmingham City University, UK, and the National Officer of the Professional Association of Lecturers of Youth and Community Work (PALYCW).

Product details

• Authors: Sinead Gormally, Abigail Maguire, Mike Seal
• Assisted by: Sinéad Gormally (Editor), Sinead (University of Glasgow Gormally (Editor), Abigail Maguire (Editor), Abigail (Moorlands College Maguire (Editor), Mike Seal (Editor), Mike (St Mary’s University Twickenham Seal (Editor), Seal Mike (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.01.2025
• EAN: 9781350430754
• ISBN: 978-1-350-43075-4
• No. of pages: 274
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; EDUCATION / General, Education, Secondary Schools, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Higher education, tertiary education, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Higher