Braxton, J.M.
2 Publications in AERD
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Export PDFTowards a scholarship of practice for university leadership in Southern Africa: The two-way practitioner-researcher loop
By Lyken-Segosebe, D.
Vice chancellors of public universities in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region face a myriad of challenges that require research-and data-driven decision-making. This paper presents a decision-making model for college and university leadership-The Two-Way Practitioner-Researcher Loop. This scholarship of practice has the twin goals of developing a knowledge base for college and university leadership and improving leadership practice in the university. The scholarship of practice comprises two “loops”. In the practitioner-to-researcher loop, vice chancellors develop practitioner-defined research agenda to be researched internally by Departments of Institutional Research and externally by members of Higher Education research communities. In the researcher-to-practitioner loop, research findings are communicated back to vice chancellors for immediate application to institutional planning, policy formulation, and decision making. This scholarship of practice develops a knowledge base comprised of both “knowledge for practice” and “knowledge in practice” at the level of university leadership. To build capacity for vice chancellors to craft research agenda and questions emanating from their “knowledge in practice”, we identify internal mechanisms and external associations, training programmes and other forums that provide leadership development and support for these university executives. © 2020, Sciedu Press. All rights reserved.
Investigating engaged scholarship among community development faculty in the Southern African development community
By Lyken-Segosebe, D.
Today's higher education institutions face societal expectations to produce research that is impactful and responsive to the problems facing their wider communities. The Community Development discipline provides an ideal example of a field of study that can illuminate the reciprocal relationship between universities and their communities. This study sought to ascertain whether and how Community Development faculty members at public universities within the Southern African Development Community region publish the scholarship of engagement. The study utilized an interpretative content analysis of faculty profiles on university websites. Findings revealed that although a significant proportion of Community Development faculty members publish scholarship of engagement that address community problems, few publish engaged scholarship specifically designed to solve practical community problems. Technical reports, rather than journal articles, disseminate the outcomes of research directed toward solving community problems. © Common Ground Research Networks, Dawn Lyken-Segosebe, John M. Braxton, Some Rights Reserved.
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