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Shaping Emerging Community-Engaged Scholars’ Identities: A Genre Systems Analysis of Professionalization Documents that (De)Value Engaged Work
- Source: College Composition & Communication, Volume 74, Issue 4, Jul 2023, p. 592 - 617
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- 01 Jul 2023
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Abstract
This article presents the findings from a small case study to examine how community-engaged research is systemically delegitimized over the course of a scholar’s career. Analyzing a genre system of university professionalization documents prior to tenure and promotion shows how such documents discourage emerging scholars from thinking of their community-engaged work as research, except when it results in traditional forms of scholarship like a publication or conference presentation. A more complicated understanding of this genre system reveals pressure points to leverage for institutional change that might allow community-engaged scholars greater institutional freedom to create and sustain strong community partnership projects.