What is community-engaged scholarship (CES)?
The report of the Commission on Community-Engaged Scholarship in the Health Professions defines scholarship as: “Scholarship is teaching, discovery, integration, application and engagement that has clear goals, adequate preparation, appropriate methods, significant results, effective presentation, and reflective critique that is rigorous and peer-reviewed.” The report defines community-engaged scholarship as: “Scholarship that involves the faculty member in a mutually beneficial partnership with the community. Community-engaged scholarship can be transdisciplinary and often integrates some combination of multiple forms of scholarship. For example, service-learning can integrate the scholarship of teaching, application, and engagement, and community-based participatory research can integrate the scholarship of discovery, integration, application and engagement.” The report further states: “It is important to point out that not all community-engaged activities undertaken by faculty are s
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- What are the stumbling blocks? What are the sources of resistance to change for schools that have incorporated community-engaged scholarship?
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