Enabling community-higher education partnerships: common challenges, multiple perspectives
Enabling community-higher education partnerships: common challenges, multiple perspectives
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2015
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Irazabal, Clara
Mendoza-Arroyo, Carmen
Oritz Arciniegas, Catalina
Oritz Sanchez, Rubyselen
Maya, Jairo
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Irazábal, C., Mendoza-Arroyo, C., Arciniegas, C. O., Sánchez, R. O., & Maya, J. (2015). Enabling community-higher education partnerships: Common challenges, multiple perspectives. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 17, 22-29. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2015.07.020
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Abstract
Since planning is an applied discipline that deals with real
places and communities and has urban environmental
sustainability as one of its primary raison deter, we believe
cooperation between communities and higher education helps
realize planning principles and strengthen social responsibility
and ‘service-learning’ ethics in young professionals. This paper
offers an open reflection from local community representatives,
students, and professors from diverse institutional and
geographic settings on a joint experience in an international,
community-higher education planning studio. It focused on
analyzing and proposing alternatives to a greenbelt project
conceived as a mechanism to contain urban growth while
controversially causing the relocation of dwellers of the selfbuilt
‘Commune 8’ located in Medellı´n, Colombia. We stress the
relevance of community-higher education partnerships when
developing action-oriented research and contextually relevant
solutions. We also examine critical factors for these
partnerships, such as motivations, approaches to community
engagement, protocols for knowledge transfer, challenges,
and future visions and directions.