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Perspectives from community partnerships in three diverse higher education contexts
Get PDFAsset-based Community Development (ABCD) approaches in higher education have the potential to benefit a diversity of higher education settings and partners, but they can also present challenges and opportunities for growth in higher education institutions. Co- curricular community engagement and academic service-learning programs may struggle to balance the broader political and logistical constraints imposed by the university with equitable, long-term, community-guided relationships that reflect a genuine commitment to ABCD. Extension programs may face difficulty engaging community members and maintaining their commitment to the long-term nature of ABCD in an environment where ABCD is not universally utilised. Although these challenges may seem daunting, partners in all three contexts can draw on a wealth of ABCD tools and resources, including case studies like those anchoring this discussion, in order to answer the question: How can ABCD approaches be utilised most effectively in higher education contexts to address challenges and improve outcomes? Specifically, can an asset-based orientation help position community participants as peer ‘experts’ alongside their academic partners, share power and authority in the collaboration? If so, how? If not, why not? The authors explore these questions using a case study methodology, allowing for nuanced portraits of three different contexts depicting interactions among community and university partners seeking to ground their collaborations in the mobilisation of assets, gifts and strengths. This article also seeks to identify key lessons learned in each setting of the three participating United States universities – the public, four-year research institution, the private religious university and the land-grant college/cooperative extension in order to make recommendations on using ABCD to build and nurture academic-community partnerships that are generalisable across other contexts
Public History, National Museums and Transnational History
Get PDFThe concept of a ‘national museum’ is fundamentally at odds with the theory and practice of public history, with public historians’ understanding that historical experience often does not obey borders, that the nation is not always the center of human experience and culture. The argument of this essay is that transnational history—history that crosses borders, that challenges the privileging of the nation state—constitutes an opportunity for national museums to go beyond national identity and the confines of geopolitical borders. Human experience is far more complicated than can be captured in the history of a single nation, and national museums are obligated to transcend such a narrative and engage in the contested, transnational nature of history and culture. Museums are well positioned to do this because they deal not only in ideas but in objects, the material culture of times and places that did not so easily sort out into ‘nation’ and ‘other.’ Museums can make the theoretical real, illuminating how national identity has been constructed from the parts of our many cultures, ideas, and institutions, recentering the narrative and recovering the stories obscured by the ascendancy of the national narrative.
 
Universal Values of Pancasila in Managing the Crime of Terrorism
Get PDFUsing a Socio-Legal Studies approach, this article analyses the primacy of the universal values of Pancasila, a decolonizing ideology, in tackling crimes of terrorism in Indonesia. In Indonesia\u27s last two decades, radical movements have become more widespread, and the public easily follows their developments. Intolerance is the seed for radicalism, and terrorism is the forerunner of the emergence of acts of terrorism. In tackling crimes of terrorism, it is important to apply Pancasila as a way of life; ideals and nationalism have an important role in every aspect of the life of the nation and state. The policies for inculcating Pancasila values must be carried out in a synergistic and coordinated manner by involving various existing sectors, and the material content of programs of deradicalization must be comprehensive, integral and sustainable by taking into account the condition of the target participants, educational background, experience and age with a dialogical, democratic, and participatory approach
The essential role of ABCD in developing two community engagement frameworks for supporting Latinx students
Get PDFAsset Based Community Development (ABCD) is an important framework to understand and develop community-engagement experiences for Latinx students, especially at Hispanic Serving Institutions that play an important role in educating Latinx students. This article presents the conceptual findings of a research project that looked at the community-engagement experiences of Latinx students at an HSI. Drawing on in-depth interviews and critical frameworks for engagement, two models were developed: Prism of Liberatory Engagement and Asset Based Critical Engagement. These frameworks are presented as ways to (1) understand and differentiate the service learning experiences of Latinx students and (2) provide a framework for faculty and Community Engagement Professionals (CEPs) to situate their courses and community relationships, and work from an asset-based philosophy of engagement. The Prism of Liberatory Engagement gives explicit attention to the themes (awareness, agency and action; positive interaction with faculty; engaging sameness, and engagement for uplift) and the significant factors (personal/familial trauma, constraints and previous experience with service) that shape the community-engagement experiences of Latinx students. The Asset Based Critical Engagement model presented in this article provides a theoretical asset-based framework for critical pedagogy for service learning and community engagement that can be vital for institutions, in and outside of the United States, which are serving an increasingly diverse student population
Entrepreneurship in emerging cities: mitigating impediments to small business development in Tshwane, South Africa
Get PDFThis article explores, and offers recommendations to address, the factors impeding small business development in the City of Tshwane (formerly Pretoria), Gauteng Province, South Africa. It also examines small business development in the broader context of South Africa and other emerging economies. The research adopted a qualitative case study approach based on a systematic analysis of documents concerning governance and small business development in Tshwane. Obstacles for small businesses identified in this study include red tape and regulatory failure, inadequate infrastructure and support services, supply chain management challenges and a lack of markets, as well as inadequate vocational, educational and skills training opportunities for local entrepreneurs. The City of Tshwane needs to foster synergies between small businesses and the market to sustain growth and development. Its Integrated Development Plan should incorporate targeted measures to support competitive emerging businesses
Voice, Choice and Power: Using co-production to develop a community engagement strategy for an ethnically diverse community
Get PDFThe context of the COVID-19 pandemic has amplified the need to increase co-production activities to empower communities. The pandemic has further highlighted systemic health and socioeconomic inequities, especially for those from ethnic minority communities and in areas of economic deprivation. This research article presents a complex, collaborative process of co-production we undertook as part of the service design of Community Engagement work within the Better Start Bradford Programme; a program of projects for pregnant women and families with children aged 0–4 years living in an ethnically diverse area. Using theory of change as our underpinning theoretical framework, we co-produced a community engagement logic model or ‘strategy’. Our approach involved nine 90-minute workshops with a range of community stakeholders. We used the seven Scottish National Standards for Community Engagement and Communities’ self-identified key concepts of ‘voice’, ‘choice’ and ‘power’ to structure the partnership activity. Workshop discussions were analysed using qualitative framework analysis, and we developed a comprehensive, multi-faceted community engagement logic model with the community.
Discussions with the community highlighted that (1) the COVID-19 pandemic had opened new avenues of community engagement, primarily virtual ones, and a blended offer of face-to-face and online activities; (2) vital support for community readiness to engage, facilitated through culturally sensitive engagement delivered by trusted sources, transparent governance processes and informal consultation, combined with a flexible approach to adapting to the community’s needs; (3) the need for a continuous reflective process of recruitment to key governance roles to include a range of diverse voices to ensure power is given to community voices.
A strong two-way feedback loop is at the core of our community engagement strategy, with both the community and the organisation playing equal roles
Re-imagining the research article: Social-semiotic signposts and the potential for radical co-presence in the scholarly literature
Get PDFAs a prestigious form of writing, the empirical research article is vital for communication, assessment and legitimisation of community-based research and practice. Yet, the research article is powerful partly because it draws upon social-semiotic conventions for the proper communication of new knowledge and practice, which are deeply and thoroughly embedded within institutions of higher education ‘dominated by technical rationality’, as Donald Schön (1995, p. 31) stressed nearly 30 years ago. This inherent tension is an important, but under scrutinised and underutilised, site of engagement for community-based research.
This article sheds light on what genre conventions are, why they are important, and how they might be used and adapted to better support the collaborative, reciprocal and justice-focused change goals of community-based research and practice. Using genre analysis and social semiotics, I undertake empirical analysis of co-authored peer reviewed research articles to reveal authors’ innovative rhetorical strategies. By uncovering the emerging shared patterns – what I call here the symbolic ‘signposts’ for communicating participatory research – I hope to strengthen them collectively. Building on these embryonic efforts, and informed by Santos’s (2018) concept of an ‘ecology of knowledges’, I propose some alternative signposts for reciprocal and non-hierarchical recognition. These social-semiotic guidelines seek to ensure that diverse ways of knowing and being are not merely accommodated within our texts, but are radically co-present
Understanding Trust in Contemporary Australia Using Latent Class Analysis
Get PDFIn 2019, an online survey of 2,015 Australian residents examined the extent of trust of various groups and institutions. A Latent Class Analysis (LCA) of the results generated a typology of trust in Australia. The LCA uncovered four classes based on levels of trust as well as associated demographic profiles and attitudes. The four groups were: those that are very distrusting (15%); those that are largely unsure about how much they can trust various groups and institutions (17%); those that are somewhat trusting (42%); and those that are largely trusting (26%). The largely trusting group was differentiated by their holistic trust in institutions and trust in other Australians (no matter their background). Discomfort with cultural difference was a defining characteristic of the very distrusting class. Examination of these four groups helps understand concerns of Australians and enable the development of strategies to address institutional and interpersonal distrust
Mixed-method approach to the evaluation of rework provisions within general contract conditions
No full textRework in construction contracts is an interesting topic as it influences contractual claims and disputes. Changes in design, work scope, and construction turn into rework and affect the contract sum, the project completion date and project performance. Thus, clear responsibility to manage rework is essential for construction contracts. Contractual rework provisions are difficult to trace as they are written indirectly or in a complex context. A well-defined contract with clear responsibilities before the project commencement will safeguard the contract from unforeseen circumstances. In this study, the stipulated provisions related to the causes of rework are reviewed and analysed in New Zealand standard form of contract. The research uses a mixed quantitative and qualitative method for data collection and analysis. This paper collects a list of rework causes, assesses each rework cause in the general contract conditions, and explores relevant rework clauses of NZS3910 contract. The study revealed five significant causes of rework that have been addressed in the contract conditions. Further investigation into the reminder causes during contract negotiation enables contract parties to manage their obligations under rework events. Properly addressing the causes of rework in the contract conditions improves the overall project performance and reduces contractual claims and disputes
Non-toll revenue potential to increase funding sources for toll road maintenance
Get PDFThe purpose of providing toll road infrastructure through Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) is to ensure that the private sector generates sufficient revenue to manage road operations and maintenance effectively. However, in many countries, various practices of PPP have led to budget shortfalls for road operations and maintenance. This situation is often due to escalating construction costs and lower-than-expected traffic volumes. To address these financial challenges, this study aimed to implement asset commercialization schemes within toll road management. A specific case study was conducted on a section of the Indonesian Trans Sumatra toll road that faced rising construction costs and low traffic volumes. A quantitative approach was applied to assess potential non-toll revenue that could be generated through asset commercialization along toll road corridors. The commercialization opportunities considered included leasing land for advertisements, installing solar power plants, erecting communication towers, and establishing rest area businesses. The identification and analysis of these opportunities were closely tied to the type, quantity, and location of asset. The results showed that asset commercialization schemes, particularly land leases for advertisements and rest area businesses, had potential to generate substantial revenue. It showed that by fully capitalizing on asset commercialization opportunities along toll road corridors, significant additional income could be generated to support road maintenance funding. The approach developed in this study could be applied to other toll road sections facing revenue deficits and budgetary challenges in maintaining their operations. This study could contribute to the growing body of knowledge on the commercialization of toll road asset
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