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Peer Review Spring Summer 2008 Cover

Current Issue:
Spring/Summer 2008, Vol 10, No. 2/3

Student Politcal Engagement

This issue of Peer Review examines how the academy engages students in their learning today to help them grow as engaged citizens for tomorrow. It focuses on democratic civic engagement rather than service and in what some call civic agency.

The Democracy Imperative (TDI) has developed a discussion guide (pdf) for campuses to use in conjunction with this issue. Written by Nancy L. Thomas, acting TDI director and an author in this issue, the guide was created for multiple uses―as a classroom teaching tool, a faculty development instrument, for use in strategic planning processes, and as a means to engage trustees in a discussion about the aims of higher education. The guide, Democratic and Political Learning, can be found on the TDI Web site.

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CONTENTS:

From the Editor

ANALYSIS

The Place of Political Learning in College
Anne Colby

Reframing and Reclaiming Democracy: Higher Education’s Challenge
Nancy L. Thomas

Pursuing Franklin’s Democratic Vision for Higher Education
Ira Harkavy and Matthew Hartley

PRACTICE

Educating Students to Foster Active Citizenship
Robert M. Hollister, Nancy Wilson, and Peter Levine

Promoting Student Political Engagement and Awareness at the University of South Dakota
Anthony DeForest Molina, Elizabeth Theiss-Smith, Richard Braunstein

Prairie View A&M Students Walk the Walk of Political Engagement
Ronald D. Server

Democracy Matters at Colgate University
Joan D. Mandle

Promoting Political Engagement through American Government Class
Jeffrey Farrah and Patrick O’Connor

Value-Added Learning
Yvette Alex-Assensoh and Mary Ryan

Political Engagement in the Age of Facebook: Student Voices
Laura Donnelly-Smith

RESOURCES

AAC&U Calendar

Highlights of AAC&U’s Work on Civic and Political Engagement

RESEARCH

New Research on College Students’ Political Views 42

REALITY CHECK

Cast Off Cynicism and Cast Your Vote
Beth Martin Birky

 

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