Graduate students, community partner, and faculty reflect on critical community engaged scholarship and gender based violence
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Authors
Morton, Mavis
Simpson, Annie
Smith, Carleigh
Westbere, Ann
Pogrebtsova, Ekaterina
Ham, Marlene
Issue Date
2019-02-25
Type
Article
Language
en_US
Keywords
Critical Community Engaged Scholarship , Community Engaged Research , Community University Partnerships , Knowledge Mmobilization , Femicide , Gender-Based Violence , Social Justice , Graduate Student , Community Partner , Faculty , Reflection , Experiential Education
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Abstract
This article reflects on the challenges and opportunities associated with community engaged learning at the graduate level, and challenges higher education to do more to support the teaching–research–service nexus. The community university partnership involved a graduate student class, a faculty member, and a community member from a provincial not for profit association. We examined our principled and collaborative process of critical community engaged scholarship geared toward addressing violence against women, and more specifically, femicide. Our research resulted in knowledge mobilization tools that could be used to inform various audiences (e.g., women’s shelter staff, the public, government, and journalists) about how mainstream media sources report and portray the issue of femicide. Our work had an explicit social justice focus with aims to generate a better understanding of the structural causes of violence against women and historically-created gendered hierarchy and its ongoing impacts. This paper offers insights for others interested in pursuing community engaged research within a community engaged learning environment.
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Citation
Morton, M., Simpson, A., Smith, C., Westbere, A., Pogrebtsova, E., & Ham, M. (2019). Graduate Students, Community Partner, and Faculty Reflect on Critical Community Engaged Scholarship and Gender Based Violence. Social Sciences, 8(2), 71. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci8020071
Publisher
Social Sciences