Diversity & Democracy, Winter 2011

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Winter2011Vol.14No.1

Education for Personal and Social Responsibility: Applying the Life of the Mind to the Work of the World

If college is a place for students to ask big existential questions about the world around them, it is also a space for considering how one's particular actions affect that world. This issue explores how developing and practicing personal and social responsibility can help students bridge the gaps between individual and global contexts to apply their learning for the greater good.

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Personal and Social Responsibility for a World Lived in Common

By Kathryn Peltier Campbell

Personal and Social Responsibility

Education for Personal and Social Responsibility: Applying the Life of the Mind to the Work of the World

By Caryn McTighe Musil, Association of American Colleges and Universities

Perspective-Taking as a Tool for Building Democratic Societies

By José Calderón, Pitzer College

Encouraging Perspective-Taking among College Students

By Robert D. Reason, Penn State University

Improving Civic Engagement by Assessing Students' Needs

By Clea Andreadis, Kimberly Burns, Elise Martin, and Rebecca Newell, Middlesex Community College

Perspectives

Fatoumata

By Leila Chatti, Michigan State University

Another Kind of College Lesson

By Jhoanna Amigable, University of the Pacific

Campus Practice

Institutionalizing Core Values: Diversity, Ethics, and Civic Responsibility in the Curriculum

By Marilyn Kurata, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Seeking a Good Society at University of the Pacific

By Lou Matz, University of the Pacific

Research Report

Business Ethics in Undergraduate Education

By Kathryn Peltier Campbell, Association of American Colleges and Universities

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