Practising Public Scholarship: Experiences and Possibilities Beyond the Academy

 ‘Practicing Public Scholarship' provides a useful resource for those thinking how to push forward the public dimensions of their work." (The Sociological Imagination, June 2010)

“Highly recommended for faculty, this book raises some uncomfortable questions that "activist" scholars must confront.” (International Journal of Social Welfare , July 2009)

"The role of the scholar/activist has never been more important than it is now. Practising Public Scholarship is one of the best books on what it really means to be a public intellectual to be published in years. It deserves a very wide readership."
–Michael W. Apple, John Bascom Professor of Curruculum and Instruction and Educational Policy Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison

"At a time of collapsing visions and privatized politics, academics who connect their scholarly work with social issues and work to translate personal concerns into public considerations, not only contribute to a society that at the very least should be capable of questioning itself, but also provide an instance of politics in which matters of knowledge, justice, and democracy become mutually determining. Practising Public Scholarship is an extraordinary testimony not only to the courage of engaged intellectuals, but also the importance of education as a crucial democratic public sphere. Everyone should read this book in order to get a glimpse of the promise of not only public scholarship and civic courage, but of democracy itself."
–Henry A. Giroux, Global Television Network Chair, McMaster University