Higher education and civic engagement international perspectives

Bringing together an international team of contributors, this volume provides an original and powerful contribution to debates about the civic purpose of higher education. It suggests that universities can best realize their civic mission by making it central to their policy and practice.

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Other Authors: McIlrath, Lorraine, MacLabhrainn, Iain
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Aldershot, England Burlington, VT Ashgate c2007
Series:Corporate social responsibility series
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505 0 |a Higher education and civic engagement : conceptual issues -- Concepts of citizenship in the context of political education / Richard Taylor -- Love, reason and the future of civil society / Michael Edwards -- Recovering the civic university / Ronald Barnett -- The case for service learning / Edward Zlotkowski -- Institutional considerations -- Rethinking the place of community-based engagement at universities / Ahmed C. Bawa -- Institutionalizing service-learning in higher education / Andrew Furco -- The process of localising pedagogies for civic engagement in Ireland : the significance of conceptions, culture and context / Josephine A. Boland and Lorraine McIlrath -- Embedding process and practice -- Identifying and teaching civic engagement skills through service learning / Marshall Welch -- Towards enhanced citizenship : the potential of service learning in teacher education : a national and international perspective / Timothy R. Murphy -- Service learning's challenge to the educator / Mark Doorley -- Serving, learning and reflective practice at Roehampton University, London / Jennifer Iles -- Civic youth work and implications for service learning : lessons from Northern Ireland / Ross Velure Roholt and Paul Smyth -- Place matters : partnerships for civic learning -- Nan Kari and Nan Skelton -- Service learning as a shared developmental journey : tapping the potential of the pedagogy / Brandon Whitney, Julie McClure, Alissa Respet, and Patti Clayton. 
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