Civic responsibility and higher education
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Civic responsibility and higher education
（American Council on Education/Oryx series on higher education）
Oryx Press, c2000
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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ISBN 9781573562898
Description
More than a century ago, John Dewey challenged the education community to look at civic involvement for the betterment of both community and campus. Today, the challenge remains. In this text, editor Thomas Ehrlich has collected essays from national leaders who have focused on civic responsibility and higher education. The book imparts both philosophy and working examples with the aim of providing the inspiration for innovative new programmes in this essential area of learning. The essays should be of interest to anyone troubled about American democracy and its future, as well as about the future of higher education in the country. The authors have written with particular attention to college and university faculty and administrators about what they can do to educate their own students to be responsible citizens. The essays also provide insights on how campuses themselves can be engaged citizens of their communities. But the volume is also written for a larger audience of those concerned about how to reverse the decline of civic engagement in the USA.
The authors not only diagnose the reasons why higher education has been primarily on the sidelines during this decline, but also propose concrete steps to change that reality.
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: pbk ISBN 9781573565639
Description
More than a century ago, John Dewey challenged the education community to look to civic involvement for the betterment of both community and campus. Today, the challenge remains. In his landmark book, editor Thomas Ehrlich has collected essays from national leaders who have focused on civic responsibility and higher education. Imparting both philosophy and working examples, Ehrlich provides the inspiration for innovative new programs in this essential area of learning.
Table of Contents
1 Preface 2 Introduction: Higher Education and the Development of Civic Responsibility by Anne Colby and Thomas Ehrlich, with Elizabeth Beaumont, Jennifer Rosner, and Jason Stephens 3 What Are the Problems: Higher Education and Its Students 4 Citizenship Development and the American College Student by Linda J. Sax 5 Institutional Identity and Social Responsibility in Higher Education by William M. Sullivan 6 Renewing the Democratic Spirit in American Colleges and Universities: Higher Education as Public Work by Harry C. Boyte and Nancy N. Kari 7 What Are Colleges and Universities Doing about the Problems: An Overview 8 The College and University as Citizen by Nancy L. Thomas 9 Educational Missions and Civic Responsibility: Toward the Engaged Academy by Carol Geary Schneider 10 The Civic Challenge of Educating the Underprepared Student by Alexander W. Astin 11 Interactions with Other Sectors of Society 12 How Concepts of Politics Control Concepts of Civic Responsibility by David Mathews 13 How Far In? How Far Out? Civic Responsibility and the Journalism Educator by Jay Rosen 14 Integrating the American System of Higher, Secondary, and Primary Education to Develop Civic Responsibility by Lee Benson and Ira Harkavy 15 Supporting Community Involvement in the Digital Age by Penelope Eckert and Peter Henschel 16 Perspectives from Different Sectors of Higher Education 17 A Community College Perspective by Paul A. Elsner 18 The Perspective of a Comprehensive University by Judith A. Ramaley 19 A Liberal Arts College Perspective by Gregory S. Prince Jr. 20 A Historically Black College Perspective by Gloria Dean Randle Scott 21 A Religious-Based College and University Perspective by William J. Byron 22 A Research University Perspective by Mary Lindenstein Walshok 23 Special Challenges Civic Engagement and the Academic Disciplines 24 Civic Engagement and the Academic Disciplines by Edward Zlotkowski 25 Accounting for the Civic Role: Assessment and Accountability Strategies for Civic Education and Institutional Service by Jane V. Wellman 26 Civic Renewal in Higher Education: The State of the Movement and the Need for a National Network by Elizabeth Hollander and Matthew Hartley 27 Afterword by Zelda F. Gamson 28 Index
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