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Higher Education and Democracy

Higher Education and Democracy

Essays on Service-Learning and Civic Engagement

Edited by John Saltmarsh and Edward Zlotkowski

Published by: Temple University Press

Imprint: Temple University Press

360 Pages, 152.00 × 229.00 × 30.00 mm

Hardcover
9781439900376
Published: January 2011

£69.00

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Praise

A masterful collection of essays on the democratic potential of education

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Putting into Practice the Civic Purposes of Higher Education, John Saltmarsh and Edward Zlotkowski

SECTION I: General Need
SECTION II: Antecedents
SECTION III: Service-Learning Pedagogy
SECTION IV: Service-Learning in the Curriculum: The First Year
SECTION V: Service-Learning in the Curriculum: The Disciplines
SECTION VI: Engaged Departments
SECTION VII: The Engaged Campus
SECTION VIII: Over a Decade Later

Conclusion: Looking Back, Looking Ahead: A Dialogue, John Saltmarsh and Edward Zlotkowski
References
Contributors
Index

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.

"[This] book is a significant addition to the field of service-learning and civic engagement in higher education and should become a standard resource. The authors are arguably the two most significant thought leaders in service-learning and civic engagement today, and the breadth and depth of their assembled essays-on issues of definition and rationale, models, on-the-ground implementation, institutional change, future directions-are remarkable. Higher Education and Democracy does an admirable job of illustrating the evolution and complexity of the authors' thinking regarding the most significant issues facing the field."
-Patti H. Clayton, Consultant (PHC Ventures) and Senior Scholar with the Center for Service and Learning at Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis