Higher education and democracy
Subtitle: essays on service-learning and civic engagement
By: [edited by] John Saltmarsh and Edward Zlotkowski
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9781439900376; 9781439900390
Subjects: Higher Education; Democracy and education; Social aspects; Political aspects; Education and state; Political participation
Description: "Higher Education and Democracy is a collection of essays on how civic engagement in higher education works to achieve what authors John Saltmarsh and Edward Zlotkowski consider the academic and civic purposes of higher education. These purposes include creating new modes of teaching and learning, fostering participation in American democracy, developing and respecting community and civic institutions, and encouraging the constant renewal of all these dimensions of American life."--Inside jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Social Crises and the Faculty Response  -- Edward Zlotkowski; title: The Civic Promise of Service-Learning  -- John Saltmarsh; title: Education for Critical Citizenship: John Dewey's Contribution to the Pedagogy of Community Service-Learning  -- John Saltmarsh; title: Addams, Dewey, and Day: The Emergence of Community Service in American Culture  -- John Saltmarsh (with Keith Morton); title: Does Service-Learning Have a Future?  -- Edward Zlotkowski; title: Pedagogy and Engagement  -- Edward Zlotkowski; title: Academic and Civic Engagement  -- Edward Zlotkowski; title: Service-Learning and the First-Year Student  -- Edward Zlotkowski; title: Service-Learning and the Introductory Course: Lessons from across the Disciplines  -- Edward Zlotkowski; title: Getting Serious about Service: Civic Engagement and the First-Year Experience  -- Edward Zlotkowski; title: Mapping New Terrain: The American Association for Higher Education's Series on Service-Learning in the Academic Disciplines  -- Edward Zlotkowski; title: The Disciplines and the Public Good  -- Edward Zlotkowski; title: Opportunity for All: Linking Service-Learning and Business Education  -- Edward Zlotkowski; title: Emerson's Prophecy  -- John Saltmarsh; title: The Engaged Department in the Context of Academic Change  -- Edward Zlotkowski and John Saltmarsh; title: Characteristics of an Engaged Department: Design and Assessment  -- John Saltmarsh (with Sherril Gelmon); title: Indicators of Engagement  -- John Saltmarsh and Edward Zlotkowski (with Elizabeth L. Hollander); title: Minority-Serving Institutions as Models  -- Edward Zlotkowski; title: Community Colleges as Models  -- Edward Zlotkowski (with Donna Killian Duffy and Robert Franco); title: A New University with a Soul  -- John Saltmarsh; title: Students as Colleagues: Enlarging the Circle of Service-Learning Leadership  -- Edward Zlotkowski (with Nicholas Longo and James Williams); title: Engagement and Epistemology -- John Saltmarsh.