Quick Hits for Educating CitizensJames L. Perry, Steven Jones "[This volume] makes the statement that democracy matters, that engagement in the community is essential to maintain our democratic values, and that civic engagement plays a significant role in educating our citizens." -- Sharon Hamilton and Robert Orr, Directors, Indiana University Faculty Colloquium on Excellence in Teaching (FACET) Quick Hits for Educating Citizens presents university faculty and administrators with ideas and strategies for integrating civic education into university curricula. Fifty-eight succinct essays from across the disciplines offer successful models of curriculum-based civic education activities and strategies for engaging students outside the classroom. Reflecting best practices as well as individual approaches to educating students for citizenship, this is an outstanding resource for university faculty in every discipline, as well as administrators and students in schools of education. |
Contents
1 Tips for First Timers | 1 |
Let Students Take the Bait before You Set the Hook | 3 |
Joining Academic and Civic Interests | 5 |
Cant We All Just DisAgree? | 6 |
Reections on Experience | 8 |
Matching Goals to Students Interests | 10 |
Setting ServiceLearning Goals | 12 |
2 Classroom Activities | 15 |
Performance Community and Service Learning | 63 |
Using CommunityBased Learning Modules to IntroduceLanguages and Culture | 65 |
Developing Citizenship through a ServiceLearning Capstone Experience | 66 |
4 Assessing Student Learning | 69 |
A Preliminary Test of an ADP Survey Instrument | 71 |
Assessing Student Learning in ServiceLearning Internships | 78 |
5 Departmental and Disciplinary Approaches to Educating Citizens | 82 |
Creating and Sustaining a Culture of Engagement | 85 |
Doing Engagement | 17 |
Understanding and Working with Perspectives | 19 |
Citizens Talking across the Curriculum | 22 |
Getting Peoples Attention | 24 |
Pedagogy of Collegiality | 26 |
Debating Issues through OpinionEditorials and Letters to the Editor | 28 |
Building Skills for Social Action | 30 |
Using Readers Theater | 32 |
Public Achievement and Teacher Education | 34 |
Expanding Civic Involvement and the Learning Landscapethrough Courtroom Observations | 35 |
Connecting Scholarship and Social Responsibility | 37 |
Motivating Mathematical Concepts with Politics | 39 |
The DoItYourself Interest Group | 40 |
An Exercise in Community Transformation | 42 |
Using Political Activism to Teach Critical Thinking | 44 |
A Compelling Reason to Study Cities | 46 |
Student Philanthropy as a Vehicle for Teaching the Subject Matter | 48 |
3 Service Learning and Educating Citizens | 51 |
Collaboration as a Keyto Successful Civic Engagement | 53 |
Maximizing the Power of Reection | 55 |
Moving from Service to Justice | 58 |
Developing the Attitudes and Practices of Civic Engagement withServiceLearning Course Development | 60 |
Improving Literacy through Service Learning | 61 |
Maximizing Collaboration for Sustainable Innovation | 86 |
Rethinking the Boundaries of the Classroom | 89 |
Infusing Service Learning in Teacher Education Programs | 90 |
Engaging Future Teachers about Civic Education | 92 |
Fostering Service Learning in a Small Department | 94 |
Service Learning in Asian American Studies | 96 |
6 Educating Citizens through Research | 99 |
Using the Research Process to Enhance Civic Engagement | 101 |
A Role for Ethnography in Teacher Education | 103 |
Involving Students in CampusWide Assessment of Civic Engagement | 105 |
Increasing Political Efcacy through CommunityBased Research | 107 |
Teaching Race and Politics through CommunityBased Research | 109 |
7 Overcoming Barriers to Educating Students for Citizenship | 111 |
Creating Classrooms as Safe Space | 113 |
Faculty Development for Facilitating Civil Discourse | 115 |
Writing the Civic into the Curriculum | 117 |
Reaching Out to Tomorrows Scientists Technologists Engineers andMathematicians | 119 |
Using Organizational Writing to Engage Engineering and Business Students | 121 |
An Interdisciplinary Approach to Civic EducationLeadership and Community Involvement | 122 |
Contributors | 125 |
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