Education for Democracy: Citizenship, Community, Service: A Sourcebook for Students and Teachers

This anthology includes selections that are intended to bridge classroom and community, according to the editors. The book is intended for use in service-learning courses but also courses in the arts, humanities, and in interdisciplinary youth corps and national service training programs. Material in the anthology includes fiction, nonfiction, literature from the humanities as well as social sciences, conservative as well as progressive perspectives, and points of view rooted in psychology as well as politics. Sections include: Citizenship and Democratic Community, Citizenship and the Psychology of Belonging; Citizenship, Morals, and Responsibility; Citizenship and Service; Prejudice, Difference, and Inequality; The Tyranny of Majority; To Serve or Not to Serve; The School and the University; Neighborhood and Nation; and The World.