Developing a Strategic 'Container' to Support Boundary Spanning and Belonging amongst Diverse Collaborators at a Land-Grant University
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| Title: | Developing a Strategic 'Container' to Support Boundary Spanning and Belonging amongst Diverse Collaborators at a Land-Grant University |
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| Language: | English |
| Authors: | Jonathan Garcia, Ashley Vaughn, César Arredondo Abreu, Jey Blodgett, Erika Carrillo, Ricardo Contreras, Frida Endinjok, Stephanie Grutzmacher, Kathy Gunter, S. Marie Harvey, Brianne Kothari, Cynthia M. Mojica, David Rothwell, Katherine MacTavish |
| Source: | Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement. 2024 28(3):97-112. |
| Availability: | Office of the Vice President for Public Service and Outreach, University of Georgia and the Institute of Higher Education. Treanor House, 1234 South Lumpkin Street, Athens, GA 30602. Tel: 706-542-6167; Fax: 706-542-6124; e-mail: jheoe@uga.edu; Web site: http://openjournals.libs.uga.edu/index.php/jheoe |
| Peer Reviewed: | Y |
| Page Count: | 16 |
| Publication Date: | 2024 |
| Document Type: | Journal Articles Reports - Descriptive |
| Education Level: | Higher Education Postsecondary Education |
| Descriptors: | Land Grant Universities, Power Structure, Social Justice, Diversity (Faculty), Equal Education, Outreach Programs, School Community Relationship, Community Organizations, Partnerships in Education |
| ISSN: | 1534-6102 2164-8212 |
| Abstract: | This essay reports on engaging academic and community partners whose positionalities spanned diverse lived experiences and power structures. Using groundwork from several literatures, we reflect on developing, nurturing, repairing, and expanding a container as a critically reflective space for experimenting with new ways of being and doing. A well-curated and nurtured container creates processes and spaces where group members feel they belong; they commit to practice a shared set of agreements, and work through interpersonal and organizational conflict that will inevitably arise. The container can be an instrument for identity, organizational, and tactical boundary spanning. As a microsystem, a container can mobilize collective engagement when team members reflect diverse identities, hierarchies, and roles within the academic system and partnering communities. Theorizing the container as an opportunity structure for boundary spanning may help those advancing diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice (DEIJ) within academic land-grant institutions, university-community collaboratives, and community-based organizations. |
| Abstractor: | As Provided |
| Entry Date: | 2024 |
| Accession Number: | EJ1445697 |
| Database: | ERIC |
| Abstract: | This essay reports on engaging academic and community partners whose positionalities spanned diverse lived experiences and power structures. Using groundwork from several literatures, we reflect on developing, nurturing, repairing, and expanding a container as a critically reflective space for experimenting with new ways of being and doing. A well-curated and nurtured container creates processes and spaces where group members feel they belong; they commit to practice a shared set of agreements, and work through interpersonal and organizational conflict that will inevitably arise. The container can be an instrument for identity, organizational, and tactical boundary spanning. As a microsystem, a container can mobilize collective engagement when team members reflect diverse identities, hierarchies, and roles within the academic system and partnering communities. Theorizing the container as an opportunity structure for boundary spanning may help those advancing diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice (DEIJ) within academic land-grant institutions, university-community collaboratives, and community-based organizations. |
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| ISSN: | 1534-6102 2164-8212 |
