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Toward a scholarship of engagement: A dialogue between Andy Van de Ven and Edward Zlotkowski

This article presents a dialogue between Edward Zlotkowski, an international leader in the field of service-learning, and Andy Van de Ven, a leader in the Academy of Management, on the role of service-learning in the movement toward a scholarship of engagement. According to Van de Ven, the divide between academia and practice is no accident. Many academics have been socialized in a trickle-down view of the knowledge supply chain, where researchers and academics create and test new scientific knowledge, which is taught to students by teachers, diffused by consultants, and practiced by practitioners. This view is vain and self-serving. Academic researchers do not have a monopoly on knowledge production. Andrew H. Van de Ven is Vernon H. Heath Professor of Organizational Innovation and Change at the Carlson School of Management of the University of Minnesota. He received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1972, and taught at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania before his ...