"To Serve a Larger Purpose"
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"To Serve a Larger Purpose"

Engagement for Democracy and the Transformation of Higher Education

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"To Serve a Larger Purpose"

Engagement for Democracy and the Transformation of Higher Education

About this book

"To Serve a Larger Purpose" calls for the reclamation of the original democratic purposes of civic engagement and examines the requisite transformation of higher education required to achieve it. The contributors to this 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, collaboration, participation, task sharing, and reciprocity in public problem solving and an equality of respect for the knowledge and experience that everyone contributes to education, knowledge generation, and community building. This book shrewdly rethinks the culture of higher education.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Preface / David Mathews
  3. Introduction: "To Serve a Larger Purpose" / John Saltmarsh and Matthew Hartley
  4. 1. Democratic Engagement / John Saltmarsh and Matthew Hartley
  5. 2. Idealism and Compromise and the Civic Engagement Movement / Matthew Hartley
  6. 3. Democratic Transformation through University-Assisted Community Schools / Lee Benson, Ira Harkavy, and John Puckett
  7. 4. Civic Professionalism / Harry C. Boyte and Eric Fretz
  8. 5. Collective Leadership for Engagement: Reclaiming the Public Purpose of Higher Education / William M. Plater
  9. 6. Chief Academic Officers and Community-Engaged Faculty Work / John Woodrow Presley
  10. 7. Deliberative Democracy and Higher Education: Higher Education's Democratic Mission / Nancy Thomas and Peter Levine
  11. 8. Faculty Civic Engagement: New Training, Assumptions, and Markets Needed for the Engaged American Scholar / KerryAnn O'Meara
  12. 9. Putting Students at the Center of Civic Engagement / Rick M. Battistoni and Nicholas V. Longo
  13. 10. Civic Engagement on the Ropes? / Edward Zlotkowski
  14. 11. Remapping Education for Social Responsibility: Civic, Global, and U.S. Diversity / Caryn McTighe Musil
  15. 12. Sustained City-Campus Engagement: Developing an Epistemology for Our Time / Lorlene Hoyt
  16. 13. Conclusion: Creating the Democratically Engaged University - Possibilities for Constructive Action / Matthew Hartley and John Saltmarsh
  17. Contributors
  18. Index