Scott Peters, Cornell University
Professor
Ithaca, New York
sp236@cornell.edu
Office:
(607) 255-9713
Bio/Research
Community-based processes of research, learning, and development that involve and engage diverse participants carry a good deal of promise. But they also involve a number of difficult challenges. With respect to the promise of these processes, I seek in my research to understand the ways they ser...
Click to Expand >>
Click to Expand >>
Bio/Research
Community-based processes of research, learning, and development that involve and engage diverse participants carry a good deal of promise. But they also involve a number of difficult challenges. With respect to the promise of these processes, I seek in my research to understand the ways they serve not only as a means of solving problems, but also of facilitating human and community development and growth, and of cultivating and sustaining democratic publics. With respect to challenges, I seek to understand how academic professionals navigate and deal with the conflicts, tensions, and dilemmas that arise when they engage with their non-academic partners in the public work of naming and framing public problems, deciding what should be done about them, and acting to produce public goods and advance common and public interests. Beyond simply understanding, I seek to improve higher education's public engagement mission in ways that support and enhance rather than hinder and diminish people's voices, capacities, values, power, and agency. To this end, I seek to contribute to the positive project of advancing the theory and practice of civic professionalism in the land-grant system, especially in relation to the task of facilitating a shift to sustainable community food systems.
Click to Shrink <<
Click to Shrink <<