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The Engaged University: Where Rhetorical Theory Matters
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Hikins, James W.; Cherwitz, Richard A. – Journal of Applied Communication Research, 2010
This essay contends that engagement, a productive coupling of the academy's intellectual resources with the enterprise of generating solutions to current real-world challenges, can best flourish when its theoretical foundations rest upon rhetorical perspectivism. We examine the current movement in academe toward engagement and problems attendant…
Descriptors: Rhetorical Theory, Educational Philosophy, Interdisciplinary Approach, Epistemology