Conversation with Bryan Smale, University of Waterloo

Nazeem Muhajarine,Bryan Smale

doi:10.15402/esj.v1i2.120

Abstract

In the Exchanges, we present conversations with scholars and practitioners of community engagement, responses to previously published material, and other reflections on various aspects of community-engaged scholarship meant to provoke further dialogue and discussion. We invite our readers to offer in this section their own thoughts and ideas on the meanings and understandings of engaged scholarship, as practiced in local or faraway communities, diverse cultural settings, and various disciplinary contexts. We especially welcome community-based scholars’ views and opinions on their collaboration with university-based partners in particular and on engaged scholarship in general. In this issue, Nazeem Muhajarine talks with Dr. Bryan Smale about his work on the Canadian Index of Wellbeing. Dr. Smale is Professor, Recreation and Leisure Studies, Faculty of Applied Health Science, University of Waterloo, and Director of the Canadian Index of Wellbeing.

Highlights

In the Exchanges, we present conversations with scholars and practitioners of community engagement, responses to previously published material, and other reflections on various aspects of community-engaged scholarship meant to provoke further dialogue and discussion
We invite our readers to offer their own thoughts and ideas on the meanings and understandings of engaged scholarship, as practiced in local or faraway communities, diverse cultural settings, and various disciplinary contexts
At the recent annual conference of the Engaged Scholarship Consortium which was held for the first time in Canada, in Edmonton in October 2014, I took part in the work of many sessions, basking in the lively atmosphere of the conference, meeting new colleagues, and familiarizing myself with new and impressive scholarship of engagement pursued in North America and the United States

Summary

Introduction

In the Exchanges, we present conversations with scholars and practitioners of community engagement, responses to previously published material, and other reflections on various aspects of community-engaged scholarship meant to provoke further dialogue and discussion. Natalia Khanenko-Friesen talks to randy Stoecker about his work and his views on engaged scholarship in Canada. Professor Randy Stoecker records ideas as a group of students and of Wisconsin-Madison, who presented “Learning, Service, Community, and Change: Challenging the Conventions of representatives from Madison-area nonprofits brainstorm topics that should be investigated in a new community-based research study (2006).

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