"To serve a larger purpose" : engagement for democracy and the transformation of higher education / edited by John Saltmarsh and Matthew Hartley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Saltmarsh, John A., 1957-

Hartley, Matthew, 1964-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education, Higher--United States.

Education, Higher.

Democracy and education--United States.

Democracy and education.

Educational leadership--United States.

Educational leadership.

Educational planning--United States.

Educational planning.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (327 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

""To Serve a Larger Purpose"" calls for the reclamation of the original democratic purposes of civic engagement and examines the requisite transformation of higher education required to achieve it. The contributors to this timely and relevant volume effectively highlight the current practice of civic engagement and point to the institutional change needed to realize its democratic ideals.Using multiple perspectives, ""To Serve a Larger Purpose"" explores the democratic processes and purposes that reorient civic engagement to what the editors call ""democratic enga

Contents:

Democratic engagement / John Saltmarsh and Matthew Hartley

Idealism and compromise and the civic engagement movement / Matthew Hartley

Democratic transformation through university-assisted community schools / Lee Benson, Ira Harkavy and John Puckett

Civic professionalism / Harry C. Boyte and Eric Fretz

Collective leadership for engagement: reclaiming the public purpose of higher education / William M. Plater

Chief academic officers and community-engaged faculty work / John Woodrow Presley

Deliberative democracy and higher education: higher education's democratic mission / Nancy Thomas and Peter Levine

Faculty civic engagement: new training, assumptions, and markets needed for the engaged American scholar / KerryAnn O'Meara

Putting students at the center of civic engagement / Rick M. Battistoni and Nicholas V. Longo

Civic engagement on the ropes? / Edward Zlotkowski

Remapping education for social responsibility: civic, global, and U.S. diversity / Caryn McTighe Musil

Sustained city-campus engagement: developing an epistemology for our time / Lorlene Hoyt

Conclusion: Creating the democratically engaged university: possibilities for constructive action / Matthew Hartley and John Saltmarsh.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes index.

ISBN:

9786613531995

9781280128110

1280128119

9781439905081

1439905088

OCLC:

726734870