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University-Community Engagement during a Pandemic: Moving beyond "Helping" to Public Problem Solving
Download full textOhmer, Mary L.; Finkelstein, Carrie; Dostilio, Lina; Durham, Aliya; Melnick, Alicia – Metropolitan Universities, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic has been a major disruption in higher education, challenging universities to engage with community partners in unprecedented ways. Among them was an accelerated challenge to ways of engaging with surrounding communities and the resulting importance this holds for social change. A common approach has been for the university to…
Descriptors: School Community Relationship, COVID-19, Pandemics, Partnerships in Education
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Direct linkStanton, Timothy K. – Journal of General Education, 2014
I propose an approach to service-learning that encourages and enables students to engage with human rights and social justice in ways that are democratic and effective. I describe a teaching process in which civic action can be critically reflected on not just to promote engagement and build knowledge but ultimately to encourage and equip students…
Descriptors: Service Learning, College Students, Civil Rights, Social Justice
Brown, David W., Ed.; Witte, Deborah, Ed. – Kettering Foundation, 2013
The Kettering Foundation's research has been focused on putting the public back into the public's business for more than thirty years. Some questions that have recently been useful to Kettering researchers as the foundation focuses on its work with institutional actors--especially higher education and its relationship with the public--have…
Descriptors: Higher Education, School Community Relationship, Democracy, Citizenship Education
Brown, David W., Ed.; Witte, Deborah, Ed. – Kettering Foundation, 2012
"Higher Education Exchange" publishes case studies, analyses, news, and ideas about efforts within higher education to develop more democratic societies. Contributors to this issue of the "Higher Education Exchange" examine whether institutions of higher learning are doing anything to increase the capacity of citizens to shape…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Citizenship Education, Democracy, Graduate Students
McMahan, Eva M. – 1983
The National Issues Forum model, a series of community based public discussions on key domestic issues, may be a partial solution to the "human gap" between growing complexity and a capacity to deal with it, by exemplifying "innovative learning." To engage in innovative learning, characterized by anticipation and participation,…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Communication Skills, Cooperation, Coping
Sigel, Roberta S. – 1977
This paper analyzes a study designed to determine if students understand the concept of democracy and can apply democratic principles. It also compares the study with related investigations conducted in Europe and calls for improved teaching to make the concept of democracy comprehensible. In 1974, 1,000 high school seniors in Pennsylvania…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Activism, Citizen Participation, Civics
