Higher Education and Democracy: Essays on Service-Learning and Civic Engagement by Saltmarsh, John

Higher Education and Democracy: Essays on Service-Learning and Civic Engagement (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781439900376)

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Higher Education and Democracy: Essays on Service-Learning and Civic Engagement by Saltmarsh, John

Higher Education and Democracy: Essays on Service-Learning and Civic Engagement

$86.50

Higher Education and Democracy: Essays on Service-Learning and Civic Engagement

$86.50
Format: Hardcover
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"Higher Education and Democracy"ais 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.

Author: John Saltmarsh
ISBN-10: 143990037X
ISBN-13: 9781439900376
Publisher: Temple University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/28/2011
Pages: 360
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.54lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.20w x 1.40d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 12/01/2010 pg. 124

By John Saltmarsh
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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.

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