This book focuses on community engagement in museum and archaeological contexts. It shows how the process of opening authority through engagement is implicitly and explicitly connected to a variety of social issues and, as a consequence, is a social issue in itself.

First Published in 2016. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.

First Published in 2016. Part of the journal on reflective discourse, museums and social issues, Volume 7, number 2 is concerned with opening authority through community engagement and includes articles on a variety of topics.

Maria Avila presents a personal account of how, from her experience as a teenager working in a factory, she got involved in community organising and how she has since applied its practices to civic engagement in higher education. Her premise is that community organising can help create a culture that values civically engaged scholarship and thus advance higher education's public, democratic mission.

This book charts the development of a whole-institution approach to university-community engagement at a modern Australian university, highlighting the pivotal role that curriculum renewal can play in organizational transformation. It describes how Macquarie University’s PACE (Professional and Community Engagement) program developed and fostered a culture of learning that has been at the center of academic renewal, differentiation, and institutional change. It details the development of the PACE pedagogical model, the establishment of the network of stakeholder relationships which underpin it, and the embedding of the model across the whole institution. Authored by those directly involved in the change project, this book tells the story of PACE, its achievements, challenges, success factors and future directions. A series of dovetailing contributions by leading international scholars of university-community engagement set the PACE story in its global context. This book adds to the scholarship of learning through community engagement, provides international perspectives on trends and issues in university-community engagement, contributes to a broader understanding of the practice and pedagogy of community engagement, and discusses the challenges and opportunities of implementing and sustaining change in the higher education sector.