Learning Through Community Engagement Vision and Practice in Higher
This book charts the development of a whole-institution approach to university-community engagement at a modern Australian university, highlighting the pivotal role that curriculum renewal can play in organizational transformation. It describes how Macqua
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arning Through Community Engagement Vision and Practice in Higher Education
Learning Through Community Engagement
Judyth Sachs • Lindie Clark Editors
Learning Through Community Engagement Vision and Practice in Higher Education
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Editors Judyth Sachs Macquarie University School of Education Sydney Australia
Lindie Clark PACE, Macquarie University Sydney Australia
ISBN 978-981-10-0997-6 ISBN 978-981-10-0999-0 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-981-10-0999-0 Library of Congress Control Number: 2016947052 © Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2017 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Printed on acid-free paper This Springer imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Springer Science+Business Media Singapore Pte Ltd.
Preface: An Act of Faith and Great Experiment: The Antecedents of PACE
Foundation and Building Blocks This book has been written at the time Macquarie University celebrates the 50th anniversary of its establishment. Writing the history of the first 25 years of Macquarie, Bruce Mansfield and Mark Hutchinson claimed that Macquarie University was an act of faith and a great experiment. The act of faith was in “the capacity of Australian undergraduates to be responsible for their own education, at least to the extent of making personal choices within a diverse and comprehensive schedule, and to benefit from teaching directly informed by the research, scholarship and learning of their teachers, a teaching touched, therefore, by excitement and of discovery and inhabiting the bracing air of the open seas, rather than the backwaters of the calm” (Mansfield and Hutchison 1992:317). While nowadays such a statement would hardly be seen as innovative or challenging the status quo, in the early 1960s university life was didactic, research happened on the periphery and students had little voice in constructing their experience, especially around curriculum and course design. The founding fathers (and they were men) saw Stanford as a model
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