Abstract

Campus-community partnerships can play a vital role in environmental education by providing universities opportunities to engage diverse communities, but challenges often emerge when research centers leverage their legitimacy as a purveyor of expertise while embracing inclusive engagement practices. While previous campus-community partnership studies have treated inclusion and legitimacy separately, we developed the Legitimacy-Inclusion Engagement Gradient (LIEG) framework, based on a year of participant observations of meetings and workshops of a university urban ecology center and 38 interviews with center members and partners, to investigate the opportunities and tensions that emerge when a center utilizes more inclusive engagement narratives. We observed universities are more adept at enacting legitimacy and that inclusive partnership practices vary substantially. We provide insights into how inclusion and legitimacy can be navigated to advance urban social-ecological resilience. Findings have implications for universities seeking to build campus-community partnership during a pandemic-induced economic downturn and anti-racist social movements.

摘要

校园-社区伙伴关系可以通过为大学提供参与不同社区的机会而在环境教育中发挥重要作用，但当研究中心利用其作为专业知识提供者的合法性同时拥抱包容性参与实践时，挑战往往会出现。虽然之前的校园-社区伙伴关系研究将包容性和合法性分开处理，但我们根据一年对大学城市生态中心会议和研讨会的参与者观察以及对中心成员的 38 次采访，开发了合法性-包容性参与梯度 (LIEG) 框架和合作伙伴，调查当中心利用更具包容性的参与叙述时出现的机会和紧张局势。我们观察到大学更擅长制定合法性，并且包容性伙伴关系实践差异很大。我们提供有关如何引导包容性和合法性以提高城市社会生态复原力的见解。调查结果对寻求在大流行引起的经济衰退和反种族主义社会运动期间建立校园-社区伙伴关系的大学产生影响。