To serve a larger purpose : engagement for democracy and the transformation of higher education

Author

Additional Author(s)

• Hartley, Matthew
• Saltmarsh, John

Publisher

Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2012

Language

English

ISBN

9781439905074

Series

Subject(s)

• EDUCATION, HIGHER-UNITED STATES
• EDUCATIONAL PLANNING-UNITES STATES
• EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP-UNITED STATES

Notes

. Bibliography: p. 286-288. Index: p. 305-312

Abstract

This work calls for the reclamation of the original democratic purposes of civic engagement and examines the requisite transformation of higher education required to achieve it. The contributors highlight the current practice of civic engagement and point to the institutional change needed to realize its democratic ideals.

Physical Dimension

Number of Page(s)

xiv, 312 p.

Dimension

23 cm.

Other Desc.

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Summary / Review / Table of Content

Democratic engagement / John Saltmarsh and Matthew Hartley --
Idealism and compromise and the civic engagement movement / Matthew Hartley --
Democratic transformation through university-assisted community schools / Lee Benson, Ira Harkavy and John Puckett --
Civic professionalism / Harry C. Boyte and Eric Fretz --
Collective leadership for engagement: reclaiming the public purpose of higher education / William M. Plater --
Chief academic officers and community-engaged faculty work / John Woodrow Presley --
Deliberative democracy and higher education: higher education's democratic mission / Nancy Thomas and Peter Levine --
Faculty civic engagement: new training, assumptions, and markets needed for the engaged American scholar / KerryAnn O'Meara --
Putting students at the center of civic engagement / Rick M. Battistoni and Nicholas V. Longo --
Civic engagement on the ropes? / Edward Zlotkowski --
Remapping education for social responsibility: civic, global, and U.S. diversity / Caryn McTighe Musil --
Sustained city-campus engagement: developing an epistemology for our time / Lorlene Hoyt --
Conclusion: Creating the democratically engaged university: possibilities for constructive action / Matthew Hartley and John Saltmarsh.

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