Higher Education and Civic Engagement: International Perspectives (Corporate Social Responsibility Series)

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Author(s): Mcllrath
Year: 2007

Language: English
Pages: 228

Contents......Page 6
List of Figures and Tables......Page 8
Notes on Contributors......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 16
Foreword......Page 18
Introduction: Iain Mac Labhrainn and Lorraine McIlrath......Page 22
PART 1 HIGHER EDUCATION AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT: CONCEPTUAL ISSUES......Page 28
1 Concepts of Citizenship in the Context of Political Education......Page 30
2 Love, Reason and the Future of Civil Society......Page 40
3 Recovering the Civic University......Page 52
4 The Case for Service Learning......Page 64
PART 2 INSTITUTIONAL CONSIDERATIONS......Page 80
5 Rethinking the Place of Community-Based Engagement at Universities......Page 82
6 Institutionalising Service-Learning in Higher Education......Page 92
7 The Process of Localising Pedagogies for Civic Engagement in Ireland: The Significance of Conceptions, Culture and Context......Page 110
PART 3 EMBEDDING PROCESS AND PRACTICE......Page 128
8 Identifying and Teaching Civic Engagement Skills through Service Learning......Page 130
9 Towards Enhanced Citizenship: The Potential of Service Learning in Teacher Education – A National and International Perspective......Page 148
10 Service Learning’s Challenge to the Educator......Page 158
11 Serving, Learning and Reflective Practice at Roehampton University, London......Page 170
12 Civic Youth Work and Implications for Service Learning – Lessons from Northern Ireland......Page 182
13 Place Matters: Partnerships for Civic Learning......Page 198
14 Service Learning as a Shared Developmental Journey: Tapping the Potential of the Pedagogy......Page 212
C......Page 224
J......Page 225
P......Page 226
S......Page 227
Z......Page 228