Description
Book SynopsisAdvocates the teaching of civic engagement at the college level, in various disciplines and courses. Using 'writing across the curriculum' programs as a model, this title proposes a similar approach to civic education. It provides models for incorporating civic learning and evaluating pedagogical effectiveness.
Trade ReviewA ground-breaking book, Citizenship Across the Curriculum explores the range of ways different disciplines can illuminate civic questions and help students develop a stronger civic lens.
* A Crucible Moment: College Learning & Democracy's Future *
Citizenship Across the Curriculum is an important book. Our political climate has become more caustic and less productive. As professors and college-administrators, we need to take responsibility to educate the next generation of citizens. This book can help provide direction in that journey.Vol. 6, No. 2
* MountainRise *
[This] new book . . . urges colleges and universities to make civic engagement a key component of their curricula as a way to help students become more active participants in the democratic process.7/31/10
* Ithaca Journal *
Citizenship across the Curriculum provides useful ideas about incorporating civic engagement in a diverse set of college courses. October 1, 2010
* Academe *
[T]he book itself models an ideal of citizenship: committed, impassioned, intelligent people working respectfully toward some ideal(s) of the common good.Vol. 20, no. 1, December 2010
* National Teaching and Learning Forum *
In Citizenship Across the Curriculum, eight post-secondary teachers from diverse institutions . . . break the silence on their own teaching practices and make a valuable contribution to public discourse on teaching and learning. August, 2011
* H-Education *
Table of ContentsContents
Foreword: Civic Learning: Intersections and Interactions / Mary Taylor Huber and Pat Hutchings
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Ending the Solitude of Citizenship Education / Michael B. Smith, Rebecca S. Nowacek, and Jeffrey L. Bernstein
1. Citizenship-Oriented Approaches to the American Government Course / Jeffrey L. Bernstein
2. De-Stabilizing Culture and Citizenship: Crafting a Critical Intercultural Engagement for University Students in a Diversity Course / Rona Tamiko Halualani
3. Fostering Self-Authorship for Citizenship: Telling Metaphors in Dialogue / Carmen Werder
4. We Are All Citizens of Auschwitz: Intimate Engagement and the Teaching of the Shoah / Howard Tinberg
5. Understanding Citizenship as Vocation in a Multidisciplinary Senior Capstone / Rebecca S. Nowacek
6. Educating for Scientific Knowledge, Awakening to a Citizen's Responsibility / Matthew A. Fisher
7. Enumeration, Evidence, and Emancipation / Michael C. Burke
8. Science, Technology, and Understanding: Teaching the Teachers of Citizens of the Future / David R. Geelan
9. Local Environmental History and the Journey to Ecological Citizenship / Michael B. Smith
10. Across: The Heterogeneity of Civic Education / David Scobey
11. Academic and Civic Engagement / Edward Zlotkowski
List of Contributors
Index
