No More Smoke and Mirrors: Publicly Engaged Scholarship in 21st Century Academe – Beware the Shrinking Imagination
Session Description
May 10, 2023 @ 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm EDT
Join the Centre for Community Partnerships (CCP) for Professor Timothy K. Eatman’s keynote address, No More Smoke and Mirrors: Publicly Engaged Scholarship in 21st Century Academe – Beware the Shrinking Imagination.
Community-engaged learning (CEL) can serve a powerful role through academe in navigating the most pressing issues of our time. It can push us to be more thoughtful about knowledge creation and its sundry sources. It challenges us to acknowledge community based and Indigenous expertise in ways that do not typically register in higher education. Evidence suggests that community-engagement is a high impact practice, when conducted in a constructively critical manner, makes the education experience better and more robust, for faculty as well as students. Yet, academe has some work to do in order to achieve these aims. Pivoting on the principles of publicly engaged scholarship, full participation and the work of imagining as frameworks for social amelioration, Dr. Tim Eatman challenges attendees to reconcile weaknesses within traditional approaches, within a liberal arts context, and to activate community-engagement with a sense of prophetic imagination.
Professor Eatman, an educational sociologist and publicly engaged scholar, serves as the Inaugural Dean of the Honors Living – Learning Community and Professor of Urban Education at Rutgers University-Newark.
All instructors, staff, students, community partners and the public are welcome to join the virtual event. This event will be recorded.
Additional Information
The Centre for Community Partnerships (CCP) invites you to attend the Community-Engaged Learning (CEL) Faculty Institute, Advancing Anti-Oppressive Community-Engaged Learning. The Institute is an annual event that brings CEL instructors together for sharing and learning alongside a plenary speaker and various panels.
The event will be divided into two gatherings: one virtual and one in-person at the University of Toronto.
On May 10th (1-2:30pm ET, Zoom), we welcome Professor Timothy K. Eatman. Professor Eatman, an educational sociologist and publicly engaged scholar, serves as the Inaugural Dean of the Honors Living – Learning Community and Professor of Urban Education at Rutgers University-Newark. All instructors, staff, students, community partners and the general public are welcome to join the virtual event.
The keynote will be followed by an in-person, half-day institute at Hart House on Monday May 15th (8:30 – 1pm ET), which will feature concurrent panels, a roundtable, and lunch together. All University of Toronto instructors are invited to attend the in-person event.
As part of our commitment to disability justice and community care, the CCP will invite all attendees who are able to do so to wear masks at the Faculty Institute, except when eating or drinking. Masks will be available at the registration table.