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

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 143990037X ISBN 13 : 9781439900376

Editeur : Temple University Press,U.S., 2011

Synopsis

"Higher Education and Democracy"ais 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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Dr. John Saltmarsh is the Director of the New England Resource Center for Higher Education (NERCHE) at the University of Massachusetts, Boston as well as a faculty member in the Higher Education Administration Doctoral Program in the Department of Leadership in Education in the Graduate College of Education.

Edward Zlotkowski is a Professor of English at Bentley College. He writes and speaks extensively on a wide range of service-learning and civic engagement-related topics, and served as general editor of the American Association for Higher Education's 21-volume series on service-learning in the academic disciplines.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Temple University Press,U.S.
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 143990037X
• ISBN 13: 9781439900376
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 360
• Éditeur: Saltmarsh John, Zlotkowski Edward
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