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Citizenship and higher education : the role of universities in communities and society / edited by James Arthur with Karen E. Bohlin.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Key issues in higher education seriesPublisher: London ; New York : RoutledgeFalmer, 2005Description: xii, 195 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 041533487X
  • 9780415334877
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.432 22
LOC classification:
  • LC189 .C53 2005
Contents:
1. Introduction / James Arthur -- 2. Student character in the British University / James Arthur -- 3. Universities of character? / Charles L. Glenn -- 4. Community, service learning and higher education in the UK / John Annette -- 5. Searching for a moral north star during the college years / Arthur Schwartz -- 6. Citizenship and higher education in the UK / John Annette and Terence McLaughlin -- 7. Character education at the university : a worthy purpose / Karen E. Bohlin -- 8. The character of higher education / Dennis Hayes -- 9. Developing citizenship through international exchanges / Ian Davies, Mark Evans, Peter Cunningham, Gunilla Fredriksson, Graham Pike, Hanns-Fred Rathenow, Alan Sears, Felicitas Tesch and Pam Whitty -- 10. Textual apologism or dissent? : ethical dilemmas for academics in managerialist times / Martin Thrupp.
Review: "This book offers thoughtful insights into the role of higher education, outlining the intellectual and practical tensions and pressures which come to bear upon higher education institutions. Wide ranging in scope, it offers perspectives from British, European, Canadian and North American contexts." "Citizenship and Higher Education will prove stimulating reading for anyone concerned with the ethics of education and the university's place in society - including educationalists, researchers, sociologists and policy-makers."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-188) and index.

1. Introduction / James Arthur -- 2. Student character in the British University / James Arthur -- 3. Universities of character? / Charles L. Glenn -- 4. Community, service learning and higher education in the UK / John Annette -- 5. Searching for a moral north star during the college years / Arthur Schwartz -- 6. Citizenship and higher education in the UK / John Annette and Terence McLaughlin -- 7. Character education at the university : a worthy purpose / Karen E. Bohlin -- 8. The character of higher education / Dennis Hayes -- 9. Developing citizenship through international exchanges / Ian Davies, Mark Evans, Peter Cunningham, Gunilla Fredriksson, Graham Pike, Hanns-Fred Rathenow, Alan Sears, Felicitas Tesch and Pam Whitty -- 10. Textual apologism or dissent? : ethical dilemmas for academics in managerialist times / Martin Thrupp.

"This book offers thoughtful insights into the role of higher education, outlining the intellectual and practical tensions and pressures which come to bear upon higher education institutions. Wide ranging in scope, it offers perspectives from British, European, Canadian and North American contexts." "Citizenship and Higher Education will prove stimulating reading for anyone concerned with the ethics of education and the university's place in society - including educationalists, researchers, sociologists and policy-makers."--BOOK JACKET.

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