Student-community engagement and the development of graduate attributes

Education and Training

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 100-115

  O'Connor, Kristine Mason ^a   Lynch, Kenny ^a   Owen, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b National Coordinating Centre for Public Engagement   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Community relations; Employment; Graduates; Higher education; Leadership; Students; United Kingdom

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955579287     PISSN: 00400912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00400911111115654     Document Type: Review

References (57)

1. Anderson, P. and Green, P. (2006), "(L)earning for employability, lessons for HE?", paper presented at Social Diversity and Difference: Influence on Participation, Learning and Teaching in HE Seminar Series, Seminar 5 Employment, 15 February, Science Park, University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton.
2. Annette, J. (2000), "Education for citizenship: civic participation and experiential and service learning in the community" Lawton, D., Cairns, J. and Gardner, R. (Eds.), Education for Citizenship, Continuum, London.
3. Annette, J. (2002), "Introduction: service learning in an international context" in Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, V111, Winter, pp. 83-93.
4. Barker, D. (2004), "The scholarship of engagement: a taxonomy of five emerging practices" in Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 123-37.
5. Barrie, S. (2003), "Conceptions of generic graduate attributes: a phenomenographic investigation of academics' understandings of generic graduate attributes in the context of contemporary university courses and teaching", available at: http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/dspace/bitstream/handle/2100/621/02Whole.pdf?sequence=2 (accessed June 2010).
6. Barrie, S. (2008), "Some ideas about graduate attributes, career development learning and WIL", a preliminary discussion paper to the NAGCAS symposium, June, available at: www.itl.usyd.edu.au/projects/nationalgap/resources/GAPpdfs/GA%20and%20CDL%20NAGCAS.pdf (accessed January 2010).
7. Barrie, S. (2009), "Achieving graduate attributes", paper presented at the Scottish QAA Enhancement Themes Conference, 5-6 March, available at: www.enhancementthemes.ac.uk/Conference/Documents/SimonBarrie2009.pps (accessed 30 January 2010).
8. Boud, D., Keogh, R., Walker, D. (Eds.) (1985), Reflection: Turning Experience into Learning, Kogan Page, London.
9. Boyer, E. (1996), "The scholarship of engagement" in Journal of Public Outreach, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 11-20.
10. Boyte, H. and Hollander, E. (2004), Wingspread Declaration on the Civic Responsibilities of Research Universities, written on behalf of participants in a Wingspread conference on civic education, available at: www.compact.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/wingspread_declaration.pdf (accessed 15 February 2010).
11. Committee on Institutional Cooperation (2005), Engaged Scholarship: A Resource Guide, Committee on Institutional Cooperation, Champaign, IL, available at: www.cic.net/Libraries/Technology/Engaged_Scholarship.sflb.ashx (accessed 15 February 2010).
12. Department for Business Innovation and Skills (2009), Higher Ambitions; the Future of Universities in a Knowledge Economy, Department for Business Innovation and Skills, London.
13. Dewey, J. (1997), Experience and Education, Simon & Schuster, New York, NY, (originally published in 1938).
14. Etzkowitz, H. and Leydesdorff, L. (2000), "The dynamics of innovation: from national systems and 'mode 2' to a triple helix of university-industry-government relations" in Research Policy, Vol. 29, No. 2, pp. 109-23.
15. Eyler, J. and Giles, D.E. (1999), Where's the Learning in Service-Learning?, Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA.
16. Floud, R. (2001), "Delivering the third mission - does one size fit all?", paper presented at the Aim Higher: HERDA-SW Conference, 15-16 November, available at: www.universitiesuk.ac.uk/Newsroom/Speeches/Pages/Speech-44.aspx (accessed 6 February 2010).
17. Freire, P. (1970), The Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Continuum Press, London, available at: www.marxists.org/subject/education/freire/pedagogy/ (accessed 11 February 2010).
18. Garver, M.S., Divine, R.L. and Spralls, S.A. (2009), "Segmentation analysis of the volunteering preferences of university students" in Journal of Nonprofit & Public Sector Marketing, Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 1-23.
19. Gibbons, M., Limoges, C., Nowotny, H., Schwartzman, S., Scott, P. and Trow, M. (1994), The New Production of Knowledge: The Dynamics of Science and Research in Contemporary Societies, Sage, London.
20. Greenwood, D.J. (2008), "The deinstitutionalisation of activist research" Hale, C.R. (Ed.), Engaging Contradictions: Theory, Politics, and Methods of Activist Scholarship, University of California Press, Los Angeles, CA.
21. Hale, C.R. (Ed.) (2008), Engaging Contradictions: Theory, Politics, and Methods of Activist Scholarship, University of California Press, Los Angeles, CA.
22. HEFCE (2004), "Student volunteering: case studies of good practice from HEACF Projects funded by the Higher Education Active Community Fund", case studies compiled by the Careers Research and Advisory Centre, Bristol.
23. HEFCE (2007), "Bridging the gap between higher education and the public", Beacons for Public Engagement, 9 November 2007, available at: www.rcuk.ac.uk/cmsweb/downloads/rcuk/scisoc/beaconslaunch.pdf (accessed 14 February 2010).
24. HEFCE (2009), "Regulating higher education institutions as charities: consultation on HEFCE's information requirements as principal regulator", available at: www.hefce.ac.uk/Pubs/HEFCE/2009/09_45/09_45.pdf (accessed 26 April 2010).
25. Higher Education Quality Council (HEQC) Quality Enhancement Group (1995), "What are graduates? Clarifying the attributes of 'graduateness'", available at: www.londonmet.ac.uk/deliberations/key-skills/graduates.cfm (accessed 1 May 2010).
26. Holland, B. and Ramaley, J. (2008), "Creating a supportive environment for community-university engagement: conceptual frameworks", Proceedings of the HERDSA Annual Conference, available at: www.osbr.ca/ojs/index.php/osbr/article/view/704/672 (accessed 20 October 2008).
27. Kellogg Commission (1999), Returning To Our Roots; The Engaged Institution, 3rd Report of the Kellogg Commission on the Future of State and Land Grant Universities, available at: www.aplu.org/NetCommunity/Document.Doc?id=183 (accessed 15 February 2010).
28. Kolb, D.A. (1984), Experiential Learning: Experience as the Source of Learning and Development, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ.
29. Leitch, S. (2006), Leitch Review of Skills, Prosperity For All in the Global Economy - World Class Skills, HM Treasury, London, available at: www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/leitch_review_index.htm (accessed 14 February 2010).
30. McCulloch, A. (2009), "The student as co-producer: learning from public administration about student university relationship" in Studies in Higher Education, Vol. 34, No. 2, pp. 171-83.
31. McEwen, L.J., Mason O'Connor, K., Willams, C. and Higson, H.E. (2009), Integrating Employers In Effective Support For Student Work-Based Learning (Wbl): An Evidence Base, Higher Education Academy, York.
32. MacFarlane, B. (2007), The Academic Citizen: The Virtue of Service in University Life, Routledge, Abingdon.
33. Maddison, E. and Laing, S. (2007), "The CUPP model in context" Hart, A., Maddison, E. and Wolff, D. (Eds.), Community-University Partnerships in Practice, National Institute of Continuing Education, Leicester.
34. Mandelson, P. (2009), "Foreword" in Higher Ambitions: The Future of Universities in a Knowledge Economy, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, London, pp. 2-5.
35. Marton, F. and Säljö, S. (1976), "On qualitative differences in learning - 1: outcome and process" in British Journal of Educational Psychology, Vol. 46, pp. 4-11.
36. Mezirow, J. (2000), "Learning to think like an adult: core concepts of transformation theory" in Mezirow & Associates, J. (Eds) (Ed.), Learning as Transformation: Critical Perspectives on a Theory in Progress, Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA, pp. 3-34.
37. Millican, J. (2008), "What can student community engagement programmes contribute to the development of citizenship in a society recovering from conflict?'", Proceedings of the 4th International Barcelona Conference on Higher Education, Vol. 5. The Role of Higher Education in Peace Building and Reconciliation Processes, GUNI, Barcelona, available at: www.guni-rmies.net.
38. Moon, J. (2005), "Guide for busy academics no. 4: learning through reflection", The Higher Education Academy, available at: www.heacademy.ac.uk/assets/York/documents/resources/resourcedatabase/id69_guide_for_busy_academics_no4.doc (accessed 15 February 2010).
39. Morley, L. (2001), "Producing new workers: quality, equality and employability in higher education", Quality in Higher Education, Vol. 7, No. 2.
40. Newman, F., Couturier, L. and Scurry, J. (2004), The Future of Higher Education, Rhetoric, Reality and the Risks of the Marketplace, Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA.
41. NCIHE (1997), Higher Education in the Learning Society, Report of the National Committee of Inquiry into Higher Education: The Dearing Report. HMSO, London, available at: www.leeds.ac.uk/educol/ncihe/ (accessed 10 February 2010).
42. OECD (2010), Feasibility Study for the International Assessment of Higher Education Learning Outcomes (AHELO), Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris, available at: www.oecd.org/edu/ahelo (accessed 31 January 2010).
43. Paul, E.L. (2006), "Community-based research as scientific and civic pedagogy", Peer Review, Vol. 8 No. 1, Association of American Colleges and Universities, available at: www.aacu.org/peerreview/pr-wi06/index.cfm (accessed 12 February 2010).
44. Prospects (2010), "UK official graduate careers website", UK graduate careers, available at: www.prospects.ac.uk/cms/ShowPage/Home_page/What_do_graduates_do__2008/What_do_employers_want_/p!ebfpppd (accessed 31 January 2010).
45. Roker, D. (2007), "Making community-university partnerships work: the key success factors" Hart, A., Maddison, E. and Wolff, D. (Eds.), Community-University Partnerships in Practice, National Institute of Adult Continuing Education, Leicester.
46. Squirrell, G., Conner, H. and Peterman, B. (2009), Research Synthesis: Student Volunteering - Background, Policy and Context, National Coordinating Centre for Public Engagement, Bristol, available at: www.publicengagement.ac.uk/about-nccpe/research (accessed 15 February 2010).
47. Steinke, P. and Fitch, P. (2007), "Assessing service-learning", Research & Practice in Assessment, Vol. 1, No. 2, available at: www.virginiaassessment.org/rpa/2/Steinke%20Fitch.pdf (accessed 31 January 2010).
48. Stoecker, R. and Tryon, E.A. (2009), Unheard Voices Community Organizations and Service Learning, Temple University Press, Philadelphia, PA.
49. Streeting, W. and Wise, G. (2009), Rethinking the Values of Higher Education - Consumption, Partnership, Community?, Quality Assurance Agency, Gloucester, available at: www.qaa.ac.uk/students/studentEngagement/Rethinking.pdf (accessed 10 February 2010).
50. (The) Talloires Network (n.d.), "Strengthening the civic roles and social responsibilities of higher education", available at: www.tufts.edu/talloiresnetwork/downloads/TNbrochureEng.pdf (accessed 1 May 2010).
51. Titlebaum, P., Williamson, G., Daprano, C., Baer, J. and Brahler, J. (2004), Annotated History of Service Learning, available at: www.usm.maine.edu/servicelearning/pdf/History.pdf (accessed 15 February 2010).
52. Tufts University (n.d.), What is the Talloires Network, available at: www.tufts.edu/talloiresnetwork/?pid=35&c=37 (accessed 1 May 2010).
53. Votruba, J., Howard, M., Bailey, J., Keiser, J., Bergland, B., Pattenaude, R., Gonzalez, A., Romesburg, K. and Haynes, K. (2002), Stepping Forward as Stewards of Place: A Guide for Leading Public Engagement at State Colleges and Universities, American Association of State Colleges and Universities, Washington, DC, available at: www.eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2sql/content_storage_01/0000019b/80/1a/6d/74.pdf (accessed 15 February 2010).
54. Watson, D. (2003), "Charting uncertainty: capital, community and citizenship", Keynote Address for the 2nd Bi-ennial 'Inside-out' Conference on the Civic Role of Universities, July.
55. Wenger, E. (1999), Communities of Practice, Learning, Meaning and Identity, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
56. Western Carolina University (n.d.), available at: www.wcu.edu/23844.asp (accessed 8 January 2010).
57. Younger, P. (2009), "Universities and communities working together", paper presented at the National Coordinating Centre for Public Engagement (NCCPE) Open House Event, 25 November 2009, available at: www.publicengagement.ac.uk/news-and-events/nccpe-open-house-the-days-events (accessed 4 May 2010).