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

✍ Scribed by John Saltmarsh, Edward Zlotkowski

• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 417
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 12
Introduction......Page 14
Introduction......Page 22
1. Social Crises and the Faculty Response......Page 26
2. The Civic Promise of Service-Learning......Page 41
Introduction......Page 48
3. Education for Critical Citizenship: John Dewey’s Contribution to the Pedagogy of Community Service-Learning......Page 54
4. Addams, Dewey, and Day: The Emergence of Community Service in American Culture......Page 68
Introduction......Page 88
5. Does Service-Learning Have a Future?......Page 92
6. Pedagogy and Engagement......Page 108
7. Academic and Civic Engagement......Page 133
Introduction......Page 144
8. Service-Learning and the First-Year Student......Page 150
9. Service-Learning and the Introductory Course: Lessons from Across the Disciplines......Page 167
10. Getting Serious about Service: Civic Engagement and the First-Year Experience......Page 182
Introduction......Page 196
11. Mapping New Terrain: The American Association for Higher Education’s Series on Service-Learning in the Academic Disciplines......Page 200
12. The Disciplines and the Public Good......Page 214
13. Opportunity for All: Linking Service- Learning and Business Education......Page 231
14. Emerson’s Prophecy......Page 251
Introduction......Page 264
15. The Engaged Department in the Context of Academic Change......Page 270
16. Characteristics of an Engaged Department: Design and Assessment......Page 279
Introduction......Page 294
17. Indicators of Engagement......Page 298
18. Minority-Serving Institutions as Models......Page 316
19. Community Colleges as Models......Page 324
20. A New University with a Soul......Page 331
Introduction......Page 336
21. Students as Colleagues: Enlarging the Circle of Service-Learning Leadership......Page 342
22. Engagement and Epistemology......Page 355
Conclusion Looking Back, Looking Ahead: A Dialogue......Page 367
References......Page 380
Contributors......Page 402
Index......Page 404