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But Is It Activist?: Interpretive Criteria for Activist Scholarship in Higher Education
The Review of Higher Education (2019)
  • Charles H.F. Davis, III, University of Southern California
  • Jessica C Harris, UCLA
  • Sy C. Stokes, University of Southern California
  • Shaun Harper
Abstract
The palpable dissatisfaction and concerns of students, staff, and faculty—often in the form of protests and demonstrations—continue to challenge contemporary college and university campuses. Practical considerations notwithstanding, what remains are questions regarding how higher education scholars can align their research with broader sociopolitical aims to engage postsecondary education and its stakeholders in organized resistance. In this article, we offer interpretive criteria by which the study of higher education can better understand, and postsecondary researchers can more deliberately engage in, the production of activist scholarship.
Keywords
  • Activism,
  • Higher Education,
  • Methodology,
  • Engaged Scholarship,
  • Action Research
Publication Date
June 5, 2019
Citation Information
Davis III, C. H. F., Harris, J. C., Stokes, S., & Harper, S. R. (2019). But Is It Activist?: Interpretive Criteria for Activist Scholarship in Higher Education. The Review of Higher Education 42(5), 85-108.