The Necessity of Public Humanities

Student Information

Matthew Dawkins, Western UniversityFollow

Faculty

School for Advanced Studies in Arts and Humanities

Supervisor Name

Mary Helen McMurran

Keywords

public humanities, civic engagement, academe, university, community, experiential learning

Description

Post-secondary institutions have, for decades, had little to no relationship with local communities and their projects/programming, However, recently as the university has begun to take seriously the benefits of practices such as 'experiential learning', 'community engagement, 'knowledge mobilization', and 'civic duty', public humanities as an emerging field has begun to present itself as a priority for many in the academy. In this research, the feasibility of the public humanities as an avenue for the academe and the community to meaningfully collaborate is discussed and tested.

Acknowledgements

Mary Helen McMurran, Jamelie Hassan, Ron Benner, Tariq Hassan Gordon, Olivia Mossuto, Ira Kazi, Fauzia Agbonhin, Sunday Ajak, Winsom Winsom, Angie Antonio, Gabriel Ndayishimiye, Jason “Burt” Burt

Comments

The research output from this project works in tandem with this link: https://www.embassyculturalhouse.ca/the-george-floyd-project.html. PDF versions of the website content are also included here as supplemental files.

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.

Document Type

Poster