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
Grant Reeher is associate professor of political science at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. Joseph Cammarano is assistant professor of political science at Providence College.
A very important volume for educators in its explicit emphasis on
and powerful examples of the importance of education in a
democratic society. It is also impressive in its handling of
diversity and pluralism, bringing into focus the importance of
heterogeneity in a truly democratic nation. The volume's emphasis
on 'active learning' will also be appreciated by educators, making
very clear that the values of citizenship and the responsibilities
of democracy must be acquired and practiced in student activity,
not in passive learning. I recommend the volume to all my educator
colleagues.
*Eugene E. Garcia, dean of the Graduate School of Education,
University of California, Berkeley*
Learning, above all civic learning, needs to be experiential as
well as purely cognitive. Serving others is not just a form of
do-goodism or feel-goodism, it is a road to social responsibility
and citizenship. When linked closely to classroom learning
('education-based community service') it offers an ideal setting
for bridging the gap between the classroom and the street, between
the theory of democracy and its much more obstreperous
practice.
*Benjamin R. Barber, from the foreword*
The authors . . . discuss the techniques they use to not only teach
about good citizenship but to actually elicit engaged citizenship
behaviors from their students. In the process, they incorporate
some of the best new teaching techniques into college-level
courses. All of the authors take pains to present the background
and rationale for the programs they describe. . . . Well written
and edited.
*Education Book Review*
The book is well-written and editeddddd
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An engaging and useful collection of essays. . . . Political
scientists who are interested in developing their students into
responsible citizens can do well by reading through this practical
guide. Together, the essays offer political scientists a wide range
of ways to integrate citizenship-based projects and activities into
their courses or their departments' curriculum. As such, Reeher and
Cammarano should be commended for bringing together these timely
perspectives into a single volume.
*H-Net: Humanities and Social Science Reviews Online*
The book is well-written and edited
*Education Book Review, (Web Site)*
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