Scott J Peters

Scott J Peters
Cornell University | CU · Department of Global Development

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A call to action in an ongoing battle against industrial agriculture From the early twentieth century and across generations to the present, In the Struggle brings together the stories of eight politically engaged scholars, documenting their opposition to industrial-scale agribusiness in California. As the narrative unfolds, their previously censo...
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When it comes to the task of making democracy work as it should in everyday ways and places, professionals who are employed by institutions of many kinds can be a problem. All too often, they use their technical knowledge and expertise in ways that dominate, disable, and sideline neighborhood and community members who aren’t employed as credentiale...
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Supporting community food production is a key strategy for all the community-based partners in Food Dignity, a community-university research partnership dedicated to supporting and learning from food justice organizations. Participatory action research (PAR) may develop knowledge and skills for sustainable agriculture, thus building gardeners’ capa...
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Urban environmental education helps students to recognize ecological features and practices of cities. To understand the value and practice of developing such ecological place meaning, we conducted narrative research with educators and students in urban environmental education programs in the Bronx, New York City. Narratives showed that educators a...
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Community-based research (CBR) has instrumental potential as a method for solving social and technical problems, facilitating learning, and advancing knowledge and theory in a variety of disciplines and fields. When it is not just based in communities but also authentically participatory, it has an additional political potential as a means for enac...
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Background/Question/Methods: Agricultural extension models that involve farmers in collaborative inquiry (CI) have proven valuable in developing the knowledge, skills, and communities of practice that support ecologically-based management. However, little research has addressed the specific methodological dimensions of effective social learning f...
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Background/Question/Methods Scientists and scholars have played important roles in off-campus civic life that range well beyond the provision of information and technical assistance from a stance of disinterested neutrality. Drawing on historical and narrative interview data, three distinct civic engagement traditions in American higher education...
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Background/Question/Methods Agroecological practices such as cover cropping may address challenges that urban gardeners face (e.g, building soil quality with limited access to organic amendments), thus enhancing the productivity and sustainability of urban agriculture. This presentation will share our experiences in a collaborative inquiry (CI) p...
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To Make This Beautiful Theory Practical - ArmitageKevin C. The Nature Study Movement: The Forgotten Popularizer of America's Conservation Ethic. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2009. viii + 291 pp. $34.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7006-1673-2. - Volume 10 Issue 4 - Scott J. Peters
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How are we to understand the nature and value of higher education's public purposes, mission, and work in a democratic society? How do-and how should-academic professionals contribute to and participate in civic life in their practices as scholars, scientists, and educators? Democracy and Higher Education addresses these questions by combining an e...
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In a piece she wrote on the "engaged academy" that was published in 2000, Carol Schneider noted the discussion that scholars and others were having about the roles mediating institutions play in addressing public issues and problems in American society, including the problem of civic disengagement. In this discussion, she observed, "there has been...
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Although several studies have examined learning outcomes of environmental action experiences for youth, little is known about the aims motivating practitioners to involve youth in action creating positive environmental and social change, nor how practitioners perceive success. This research explored through phenomenological interviews practitioners...
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In this study, we explore how faculty members from one land-grant college understand the meaning and significance of the land-grant mission, and their own motivations, purposes, roles, work, and experiences as publicly engaged scholars and educators in pursuing it. Our findings carry important impli-cations for the emerging civic engagement and res...
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The challenge of pursuing sustainability in agriculture is often viewed as mainly or wholly technical in nature, requiring the reform of farming methods and the development and adoption of alternative technologies. Likewise, the purpose of sustainability is frequently cast in utilitarian terms, as a means of protecting a valuable resource (i.e., so...
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Historians have portrayed the formative period of agricultural extension work in the United States as a search for the best method of convincing farmers to change their farming practices in order to improve agricultural efficiency, productivity, and profitability. However, one of the key leaders in extension's formative period, Cornell University's...
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Theodore Roosevelt charged his 1908 Country Life Commission with looking into the deficiencies of agriculture and country life and the means by which they might be remedied. Though some scholars have judged it a positive milestone in American agricultural history, prevailing assessments are critical, negative, and often conflicting. Critics view it...
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This paper explores an important purpose that some scholars in professional programs of study are utilizing service-learning to pursue: namely, the purpose of educating the civic professional by integrating education for work and citizenship. While such a purpose holds promise, an examination of a practice story from the field of landscape architec...
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This paper takes issue with Mark Wood's political activism approach for pursuing the goals of the engagement movement, suggesting instead an approach that is based on reconstructing an identity and practice of civic professionalism in academic life. Two practice stories of civic professionalism are presented and discussed, illustrating its promise...
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Cornell University occupies a unique niche in the landscape of American higher education. Founded as the land grant university for the State of New York, it has from its beginning also been a private university. Its founder, Ezra Cornell, was a New York State assemblyman at the time of the passage of the Morrill Land Grant Act. Not formally educate...
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In recent years, a movement aimed at renewing the civic mission of American higher education has emerged. What are the implications of this aim for the nature and practice of out-reach scholarship? Grounded in an analysis of our contemporary civic crisis that emphasizes the importance of the formative project of civic education, this paper calls fo...
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The national-service movement promises to become a source of democratic renewal. Participation can be seen as the practice of citizenship if the political realities are recognized. The movement could produce a new generation of public leaders with practical skills and concepts. (SLD)
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Minnesota, 1998. Includes bibliographical references (p. 284-306). Photocopy.

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