The Engaged Campus

The Engaged Campus offers a set of emerging best practices and articulation of critical issues for faculty and administrators committed to developing, strengthening, or expanding majors or minors in community engagement at their respective institutions.

Autorentext
Dan W. Butin is Founding Dean of the School of Education at Merrimack College, USA. He is the editor and author of over fifty books, articles, and book chapters, including the books Service-Learning in Higher Education, Teaching Social Foundations of Education, and Service-Learning and Social Justice Education. Butin's research focuses on issues of educator preparation and policy and community engagement. He has been Assistant Dean of the School of Education at Cambridge College, USA, and a faculty member at Gettysburg College, USA. Prior to working in higher education, Butin taught middle school, taught in an adult GED program, and was Chief Financial Officer of Teach For America. More about Butin's teaching and scholarship can be found at http://danbutin.org/.

Inhalt
Foreword; Elizabeth Minnich Introduction: When Engagement is Not Enough: Building the Next Generation of the Engaged Campus; Dan W. Butin PART I: ENGAGEMENT IN ACTION 1. Theory Matters: Articulating a Theoretical Framework for Civic Engagement; Tracey Burke, Tara Palmer Smith, and Diane Hirshberg 2. Creating the Culture, Character, and Craft of Engagement; Sandra L. Enos 3. Negotiating the Boundary between the Academy and the Community; Hollyce (Sherry) Giles 4. Contending with Political and Cultural Campus Challenges; Arthur S. Keene and John Reiff 5. Process, Content, and Community Building; Keith Morton 6. The Politics of Engagement; Mary Beth Pudup 7. Measuring the Impact of Community Service Learning; Scott Seider and Sarah Novick 8. Building in Place; Talmage A. Stanley PART II: REFLECTING ON THE FUTURE OF COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT 9. A New Hull House? The Monumental Challenge of Service-Learning and Community Engagement; Peter Levine 10. Disciplining Higher Education for Democratic Community Engagement; Ariane Hoy, Mathew Johnson, and Robert Hackett 11. De Tocqueville Rediscovered: Community-Based Civic Engagement; Elizabeth L. Hollander