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Saltmarsh, John; Janke, Emily M.; Clayton, Patti H. – Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 2015
Twenty years ago, reflecting on the possibilities for service-learning (SL) to help re-envision higher education, Zlotkowski (1995) considered the question, "Does service-learning have a future?" and concluded "nothing less than a transformation of contemporary academic culture," a transformation of higher education…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Change, Service Learning, Democratic Values
Randall, David – National Association of Scholars, 2017
A new movement in American higher education aims to transform the teaching of civics. This report is a study of what that movement is, where it came from, and why Americans should be concerned. What we call the "New Civics" redefines civics as progressive political activism. Rooted in the radical program of the 1960s' New Left, the New…
Descriptors: Universities, Civics, Teaching Methods, Educational Practices
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Astin, Alexander W.; Astin, Helen S. – Journal of College and Character, 2015
In this retrospective account of their scholarly work over the past 45 years, Alexander and Helen Astin show how the struggle to achieve greater equity in American higher education is intimately connected to issues of character development, leadership, civic responsibility, and spirituality. While shedding some light on a variety of questions…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Equal Education, Minority Group Students, Developmental Studies Programs
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Edelstein, Wolfgang – European Journal of Education, 2011
According to social scientists Herfried Munkler in Germany and Colin Crouch in England, major developments in Western industrial societies--individualism, increasing social complexity, globalisation--present serious threats to basic requirements of stable societies and expose democracy to the corrosion of its socio-moral resources such as social…
Descriptors: Democracy, Service Learning, Foreign Countries, Democratic Values
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Hartley, Matthew; Saltmarsh, John; Clayton, Patti – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2010
Evidence has emerged that the civic engagement movement in US higher education may not be fulfilling its transformative potential, having lost sight of its core democratic purposes. Civic engagement conceptualised only in terms of activity and place--programmes in communities--may be easily accommodated to prevailing technocratic practices. For…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Higher Education, Democracy, Organizational Change
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Avila, Maria – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2010
This article describes a model of civic engagement based on four key community organizing practices, created at Occidental College and implemented since 2001. The foundations of this model do not include confrontation, mass mobilization, or demonstrations--tactics commonly associated with the term community organizing. This model, instead,…
Descriptors: Community Organizations, College Faculty, Models, Personal Narratives
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Britner, Preston A. – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2012
This article describes how public engagement was incorporated into a research university's current Academic Plan, how the public engagement metrics were selected and adopted, and how those processes led to subsequent strategic planning. Some recognition of the importance of civic engagement has followed, although there are many areas in which…
Descriptors: Research Universities, School Community Relationship, Outcome Measures, Leadership Role