Arms and the university military presence and the civic education of non-military students
Alienation between the U.S. military and society has grown in recent decades. Such alienation is unhealthy, as it threatens both sufficient civilian control of the military and the long-standing ideal of the citizen soldier. Nowhere is this issue more predominant than at many major universities, whi...
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Cambridge University Press
2012
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. A Normative and Pedagogical Framework
- 1. The closing of the university mind: the military/university gap and the problem of civic and liberal education
- 2. Education in the regime: how a military presence can enhance civic and liberal education
- Part II. ROTC and the University
- 3. ROTC and the university: an introduction
- 4. ROTC and the Ivies: before the storm
- 5. ROTC and the Ivies: the divorce
- 6. ROTC, Columbia, and the Ivy League: Sisyphus renews his quest to renew a troubled relationship
- 7. Post-DADT: Sisyphus nears the top of the mountain
- 8. Pedagogy and military presence: the educational influence of student-soldiers in their own words
- 9. Winning hearts and minds?: The consequences of military presence for non-military students
- Part III. Military History Examined
- 10. Military history: an endangered or protected species?
- 11. Half empty or half full?: Military historians' perspectives on the status of military history and the leading departments
- 12. Military presence in security studies: political realism (re)considered
- 13. Security studies in the wake of the Cold War university: paragons of productive fiction, or throwing the baby out with the bathwater?
- Part IV. Concluding Thoughts
- 14. Conclusion: placing the military in the university