Reexamining Campus-Community Partnerships: Toward Liberating Praxis

• In Event: 18.073 - Poster Session 3
  In Poster Session: 18.073-4 - College Students' Political Identity, Fluency, and Campus-Community Partnerships

Abstract

As campus-community partnerships (CCPs) continue to proliferate, research and practice have shifted toward a more intentional focus on reciprocity and mutual benefit (Eddy, 2010; Peterson, 2009). This paper builds on such work and responds to Freire’s (1970) contention that “those who authentically commit themselves to the people must reexamine themselves constantly” (p. 17). In reexamining the academy and CCPs within it, I explore the ways in which more purposeful uses of power and infusions of multicultural ideals into the epistemological stance, relational processes, and accountability structures of partnership work could serve to generate a more liberating praxis. Anchors of praxis toward realizing deeper, sustained reciprocity and implications for higher education are discussed.

Author

• Amanda Marie Bowers, University of Louisville