Higher Education and Democracy : Essays on Service-Learning and Civic Engagement.
Title:
Higher Education and Democracy : Essays on Service-Learning and Civic Engagement.
Author:
Saltmarsh, John.
ISBN:
9781439900390
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (417 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Section I. General Need -- Introduction -- 1. Social Crises and the Faculty Response -- 2. The Civic Promise of Service-Learning -- Section II. Antecedents -- Introduction -- 3. Education for Critical Citizenship: John Dewey's Contribution to the Pedagogy of Community Service-Learning -- 4. Addams, Dewey, and Day: The Emergence of Community Service in American Culture -- Section III. Service-Learning Pedagogy -- Introduction -- 5. Does Service-Learning Have a Future? -- 6. Pedagogy and Engagement -- 7. Academic and Civic Engagement -- Section IV. Service-Learning in the Curriculum: The First Year -- Introduction -- 8. Service-Learning and the First-Year Student -- 9. Service-Learning and the Introductory Course: Lessons from Across the Disciplines -- 10. Getting Serious about Service: Civic Engagement and the First-Year Experience -- Section V. Service-Learning in the Curriculum: The Disciplines -- Introduction -- 11. Mapping New Terrain: The American Association for Higher Education's Series on Service-Learning in the Academic Disciplines -- 12. The Disciplines and the Public Good -- 13. Opportunity for All: Linking Service- Learning and Business Education -- 14. Emerson's Prophecy -- Section VI. Engaged Departments -- Introduction -- 15. The Engaged Department in the Context of Academic Change -- 16. Characteristics of an Engaged Department: Design and Assessment -- Section VII. The Engaged Campus -- Introduction -- 17. Indicators of Engagement -- 18. Minority-Serving Institutions as Models -- 19. Community Colleges as Models -- 20. A New University with a Soul -- Section VIII. Over a Decade Later -- Introduction -- 21. Students as Colleagues: Enlarging the Circle of Service-Learning Leadership -- 22. Engagement and Epistemology -- Conclusion Looking Back, Looking Ahead: A Dialogue -- References.
Contributors -- Index.
Abstract:
Higher Education and Democracy is a collection of essays written over the last ten years on how civic engagement in higher education works to achieve what authors John Saltmarsh and Edward Zlotkowsi consider to be the academic and civic purposes of higher education. These include creating new modes of teaching and learning, fostering participation in American democracy, the development and respect for community and civic institutions, and encouraging the constant renewal all of these dimensions of American life. Organized chronologically, the twenty-two essays in this volume provide "signposts" along the road in the journey of fulfilling the civic purposes of higher education. For the authors, service-learning is positioned as centrally important to the primary academic systems and structures of higher education, departments, disciplines, curriculum, and programs that are central to the faculty domain. Progressing from the general and the contextual to specific practices embodied in ever larger academic units, the authors conclude with observations on the future of the civic engagement movement.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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