"to Serve a Larger Purpose" Engagement for Democracy and the Transformation of Higher Education

ISBN-10: 143990507X

ISBN-13: 9781439905074

Edition: 2012

Authors: John Saltmarsh, Matthew Hartley

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"To Serve a Larger Purpose"calls for the reclamation of the original democratic purposes of civic engagement and provides an examination of the requisite transformation of higher education required to achieve it. The contributors and editors to this extremely timely and relevant volume effectively highlight the current practice of civic engagement and point to the institutional change needed to realize its democratic ideals.Using multiple perspectives,"To Serve a Larger Purpose"explores the democratic processes and purposes that reorient civic engagement to what the editors call "democratic engagement." The norms of democratic engagement are determined by values such as inclusiveness,…

Book details

List price: $32.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Temple University Press
Publication date: 3/30/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 326
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English



Preface



Introduction "To Serve a Larger Purpose"




Democratic Engagement




Idealism and Compromise and the Civic Engagement Movement




Democratic Transformation through University-Assisted Community Schools




Civic Professionalism




Collective Leadership for Engagement: Reclaiming the Public Purpose of Higher Education




Chief Academic Officers and Community-Engaged Faculty Work




Deliberative Democracy and Higher Education: Higher Education's Democratic Mission




Faculty Civic Engagement: New Training, Assumptions, and Markets Needed for the Engaged American Scholar




Putting Students at the Center of Civic Engagement




Civic Engagement on the Ropes?




Remapping Education for Social Responsibility: Civic, Global, and U.S. Diversity




Sustained City-Campus Engagement: Developing an Epistemology for Our Time




Conclusion: Creating the Democratically Engaged University-Possibilities for Constructive Action



Contributors


Index