Education for Citizenship - Ideas and Innovations in Political Learning

This book addresses the challenge of education for citizenship at a specific, concrete level. It offers examples of efforts to create among our students a new set of what Tocqueville called mores or culturally defining 'habits of the heart' which will enhance citizenship, foster a sense of connectedness to a community stretching beyond the university, and ultimately, support the practices, basic values, and institutions necessary for the democratic process.

List of contents

Chapter 1 Education for Citizenship: Some Themes from Recent Innovations and Questions for the Future
Chapter 2 Teaching American Politics Through Service: Reflections on a Pedagogical Strategy
Chapter 3 Service Learning as Civic Learning: Lessons We Can Learn from Our Students
Chapter 4 The Urban Agenda Project
Chapter 5 Citizenship Courses as Life-Changing Experiences
Chapter 6 Internships and Citizenship
Chapter 7 Enhancing Citizenship Through Active Learning: Simulations on the Policy Process
Chapter 8 Doing the Rights Thing: Tales of Citizenship and Free Speech
Chapter 9 Teaching the Art of Public Deliberation: National Issues Forums on Campus
Chapter 10 Democratizing the Classroom: The Individual Learning Contract
Chapter 11 Wading in the Deep: Supporting Emergent Anarchies
Chapter 12 Team-Taught Courses and Multidisciplinary Education for Citizenship
Chapter 13 Using the Internet to Enhance Classroom and Citizenship Information
Chapter 14 The Internet as a Tool for Student Citizenship

About the author

Naeem Inayatullah is professor of politics at Ithaca College. He has taught at the University of Denver, University of Colorado, Syracuse University, and for a short period in Brazil. He is associate editor of the Journal of Narrative Politics.

Summary

This volume addresses the challenge of education for citizenship at a specific, concrete level. It offers examples of efforts to create among students a new set of what Tocqueville called mores or culturally defining "habits of the heart".

Product details

• Authors: Benjamin R. Barber, Grant Cammarano Reeher
• Assisted by: Joseph Cammarano (Editor), Cammarano Joseph (Editor), Grant Reeher (Editor), Reeher Grant (Editor), Benjamin R. Barber (Foreword)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.08.1997
• EAN: 9780847683666
• ISBN: 978-0-8476-8366-6
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Humanities, art, music > Education; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; EDUCATION / General, Education, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, Political structures: democracy, Civil rights & citizenship, Civics and citizenship, Political structures / systems: democracy, Education / Educational sciences / Pedagogy