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What Can We Learn from a University that Rewards Faculty Practice?
Author(s) -
Docherty Jayne Seminare
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
negotiation journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.238
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 1571-9979
pISSN - 0748-4526
DOI - 10.1111/nejo.12021
Subject(s) - peacebuilding , positive deviance , deviance (statistics) , promotion (chess) , public relations , political science , academic freedom , sociology , higher education , pedagogy , psychology , law , social psychology , computer science , politics , machine learning
What conditions, including standards for promotion and tenure, should we be cultivating at universities if we want scholar practitioners (or pracademics) in conflict‐related fields to thrive in academic settings? This article examines the C enter for J ustice and P eacebuilding at E astern M ennonite U niversity as an example of “positive deviance” — a university and an academic program that wholeheartedly support faculty members who engage in extensive practice, including long‐term involvement with peacebuilding processes. Three conditions — location, culture, and the application of peacebuilding strategies within the university — have given rise to and continue to support this system even as the university embraces a commitment to increasing scholarly productivity by faculty members.