Higher Education and Civic Engagement: Comparative Perspectives

✍ Scribed by Lorraine McIlrath, Ann Lyons, Ronaldo Munck (eds.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Year: 2012
Tongue: English
Leaves: 274
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Introduction....Pages 1-11
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
Civic Engagement in a Cold Climate: A Glocal Perspective....Pages 15-29
Higher Education as a Force for Societal Change in the Twenty-First Century....Pages 31-39
Strategies for Enhancing Sustainability of Civic Engagement: Opportunities, Risks, and Untapped Potential....Pages 41-59
Universities and Their Communities—Engagement and Service as Primary Mission....Pages 61-77
Front Matter....Pages 79-79
A “Civic Mission” for the University: Engaged Scholarship and Community-Based Participatory Research....Pages 81-99
Civic Education through Service Learning: What, How, and Why?....Pages 101-124
Volunteering within Higher Education—A Literature Exploration and Case Study....Pages 125-138
Community Perspective on University Partnership—Prodding the Sacred Cow....Pages 139-154
Front Matter....Pages 155-155
Service Learning within a Spanish Context—From Teaching to Knowledge Transfer....Pages 157-171
Civic Engagement Practices in Higher Education in Ireland....Pages 173-186
Academic Excellence and Community Engagement: Reflections on the Latin American Experience....Pages 187-203
Through Thick and Thin: The American University of Beirut Engages Its Communities....Pages 205-219
Embedding Public Engagement within Higher Education: Lessons from the Beacons for Public Engagement in the United Kingdom....Pages 221-240
Afterthoughts: The Walls....Pages 241-249
Back Matter....Pages 251-268

✦ Subjects

Sociology of Education; Sociology of Education; Higher Education; International and Comparative Education; Educational Philosophy

📜 SIMILAR VOLUMES

Higher Education and Civic Engagement: I

📁 Higher Education and Civic Engagement: International Perspectives (Corporate Social Responsibility Series)

✍ Mcllrath 📂 Library 📅 2007 🌐 English

Youth Civic Engagement in a Globalized W

📁 Youth Civic Engagement in a Globalized World: Citizenship Education in Comparative Perspective

✍ Catherine Broom (eds.) 📂 Library 📅 2017 🏛 Palgrave Macmillan US 🌐 English

<p>In this book, the authors explore the apparent decline in youth civic engagement through research studies conducted in seven societies/nations with varied experiences with democracy. This work is framed within a youth civic engagement model. Each subsequent chapter presents the findings for each

Democracy and Higher Education : Traditi

📁 Democracy and Higher Education : Traditions and Stories of Civic Engagement

✍ Scott J. Peters; Theodore R. Alter; Neil Schwartzbach 📂 Library 📅 2010 🏛 Michigan State University Press 🌐 English

How are we to understand the nature and value of higher education's public purposes, mission, and work in a democratic society? How do-and how should-academic professionals contribute to and participate in civic life in their practices as scholars, scientists, and educators? Democracy and Higher Edu

Democratizing Higher Education: Internat

📁 Democratizing Higher Education: International Comparative Perspectives

✍ Patrick Blessinger, John P. Anchan 📂 Library 📅 2015 🏛 Routledge 🌐 English

<P>Higher education systems around the world are undergoing fundamental change and reform due to external pressures―including internationalization of higher education, increased international competition for students, less reliance on public funding, and calls to create greater access opportunities

Higher Education Policy: an Internationa

📁 Higher Education Policy: an International Comparative Perspective. An International Comparative Perspective

✍ Frans Kaiser, Leo Goedegebuure, Frans Kaiser, Leo Goedegebuure, Peter Maassen, P 📂 Library 📅 1994 🏛 Elsevier Ltd, Pergamon Press 🌐 English

Tremendous changes are affecting the structure and funding of higher education in many countries. This volume attempts to identify and analyze the principles, structural features and modes of work of the different higher education policies operating in eleven countries, as well as their commonalitie

Higher Education and Democracy: Essays o

📁 Higher Education and Democracy: Essays on Service-Learning and Civic Engagement

✍ John Saltmarsh, Edward Zlotkowski 📂 Library 📅 2011 🏛 Temple University Press 🌐 English

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