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Civic Responsibility and Higher Education
Institution:
American Council on Education
Publication Date:
2000
Publisher:
Oryx Press/GreenWood Publishing Group
Pages:
403
Abstract:
This book explains the theory and practice of civic learning and provides practical examples of programs that prepare students for lives of civic engagement. Contents:
- Introduction: Higher Education and the Development of Civic Responsibility by Anne Colby and Thomas Ehrlich, with Elizabeth Beaumont, Jennifer Rosner, and Jason Stephens
- Citizenship Development and the American College Student by Linda J. Sax
- Institutional Identity and Social Responsibility in Higher Education by William M. Sullivan
- Renewing the Democratic Spirit in American Colleges and Universities: Higher Education as Public Work by Harry C. Boyte and Nancy N. Kari
- The College and University as Citizen by Nancy L. Thomas
- Educational Missions and Civic Responsibility: Toward the Engaged Academy by Carol Geary Schneider
- The Civic Challenge of Educating the Underprepared Student by Alexander W. Astin
- How Concepts of Politics Control Concepts of Civic Responsibility by David Mathews
- How Far In? How Far Out? Civic Responsibility and the Journalism Educator by Jay Rosen
- Integrating the American System of Higher, Secondary, and Primary Education to Develop Civic Responsibility by Lee Benson and Ira Harkavy
- Supporting Community Involvement in the Digital Age by Penelope Eckert and Peter Henschel
- A Community College Perspective by Paul A. Elsner
- The Perspective of a Comprehensive University by Judith A. Ramaley
- A Liberal Arts College Perspective by Gregory S. Prince Jr.
- A Historically Black College Perspective by Gloria Dean Randle Scott
- A Religious-Based College and University Perspective by William J. Byron
- A Research University Perspective by Mary Lindenstein Walshok
- Civic Engagement and the Academic Disciplines by Edward Zlotkowski
- Accounting for the Civic Role: Assessment and Accountability Strategies for Civic Education and Institutional Service by Jane V. Wellman
- Civic Renewal in Higher Education: The State of the Movement and the Need for a National Network by Elizabeth Hollander and Matthew Hartley
- Afterword by Zelda F. Gamson
Call Number:
510/C/EHR/2000
Sector:
HE Sector
Library Item Type:
Print resource - book/monograph
Exemplary:
Exemplary - expert 
