TY - BOOK AU - Zuber-Skerritt,Ortrun AU - Wood,Lesley AU - Louw,Ina TI - A Participatory Paradigm for an Engaged Scholarship in Higher Education: a Action Leadership from a South African Perspective T2 - Educational Research E-Books Online, Collection 2005-2017, ISBN: 9789004394001 SN - 9789463001847 AV - LB1707 U1 - 370.7 23 PY - 2015/// CY - Leiden; , Boston PB - Brill | Sense KW - Active learning KW - Education, Higher KW - Aims and objectives KW - Educational leadership N1 - Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Conceptual Framework -- Action Research for the 21st Century -- Action Leadership in Higher Education through Participatory Action Learning and Action Research (PALAR) -- Repositioning the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) in an Engaged Scholarship -- Palar for Academic Leadership Development -- Palar as a Methodology for Leading Community Engagement -- Academic Leadership Development -- An Academic Leadership Development Program in South Africa -- Sustainability through Academic Leadership Development Programs -- Developing Action Leadership in Higher Education -- Developing Action Leadership for Sotl in South Africa -- The Learning Conference Culture -- Fostering Critical Reflection to Develop Action Leadership -- Conclusions and Reflections -- Author Index -- Subject Index N2 - This book provides a comprehensive conceptual framework, case studies, workshop processes and designs for academic development programs supported by two key concepts: Participatory Action Learning and Action Research (PALAR)—a conceptual integration of action learning and participatory action research—and action leadership. PALAR is conceived as a philosophy, a methodology, a theory of learning and knowledge creation, and as a facilitation process. Action leadership involves collaboration, action, concern and responsibility for others, rather than a position of power and control over them. It is participatory, strategic, ethical and non-hierarchical UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789463001847 ER -