Higher Education and Democracy

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 volume provide "signposts" along the road in the journey of fulfilling the civic purposes of higher education. For the authors, service-learning is positioned as centrally important to the primary academic systems and structures of higher education, departments, disciplines, curriculum, and programs that are central to the faculty domain. Progressing from the general and the contextual to specific practices embodied in ever larger academic units, the authors conclude with observations on the future of the civic engagement movement.

Dr. John Saltmarsh is the Director of the New England Resource Center for Higher Education (NERCHE) at the University of Massachusetts, Boston as well as a faculty member in the Higher Education Administration Doctoral Program in the Department of Leadership in Education in the Graduate College of Education.

Edward Zlotkowski is a Professor of English at Bentley College. He writes and speaks extensively on a wide range of service-learning and civic engagement-related topics, and served as general editor of the American Association for Higher Education's 21-volume series on service-learning in the academic disciplines.

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction Putting into Practice the Civic Purposes of Higher Education	p. 1
General Need
Introduction	p. 9
Social Crises and the Faculty Response	p. 13
The Civic Promise of Service-Learning	p. 28
Antecedents
Introduction	p. 35
Education for Critical Citizenship: John Dewey's Contribution to the Pedagogy of Community Service-Learning	p. 41
Addams, Dewey, and Day: The Emergence of Community Service in American Culture	p. 55
Service-Learning Pedagogy
Introduction	p. 75
Does Service-Learning Have a Future?	p. 79
Pedagogy and Engagement	p. 95
Academic and Civic Engagement	p. 120
Service-Learning in the Curriculum: The First Year
Introduction	p. 131
Service-Learning and the First-Year Student	p. 137
Service-Learning and the Introductory Course: Lessons from across the Disciplines	p. 154
Getting Serious about Service: Civic Engagement and the First-Year Experience	p. 169
Service-Learning in the Curriculum: The Disciplines
Introduction	p. 183
Mapping New Terrain: The American Association for Higher Education's Series on Service-Learning in the Academic Disciplines	p. 187
The Disciplines and the Public Good	p. 201
Opportunity for All: Linking Service-Learning and Business Education	p. 218
Emerson's Prophecy	p. 238
Engaged Departments
Introduction	p. 251
The Engaged Department in the Context of Academic Change	p. 257
Characteristics of an Engaged Department: Design and Assessment	p. 266
The Engaged Campus
Introduction	p. 281
Indicators of Engagement	p. 285
Minority-Serving Institutions as Models	p. 303
Community Colleges as Models	p. 311
A New University with a Soul	p. 318
Over a Decade Later
Introduction	p. 323
Students as Colleagues: Enlarging the Circle of Service-Learning Leadership	p. 329
Engagement and Epistemology	p. 342
Conclusion Looking Back, Looking Ahead: A Dialogue	p. 354
References	p. 367
Contributors	p. 389
Index	p. 391
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