Higher education and democracy : essays on service-learning and civic engagement / John Saltmarsh and Edward Zlotkowski, [editors].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Saltmarsh, John A., 1957-

Zlotkowski, Edward A., 1944-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education, Higher--Social aspects.

Education, Higher.

Education, Higher--Political aspects.

Democracy and education.

Education and state.

Political participation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (417 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 v

Contents:

section 1. General need

section 2. Antecedents

3. Service-learning pedagogy

section 4. Service-learning in the curriculum : the first year

section 5. Service-learning in the curriculum : the disciplines

section 6. Engaged departments

section 7. The engaged campus

section 8. Over a decade later.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781439900383

1439900388

9781439900390

1439900396

OCLC:

704263944