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How are we to understand the nature and value of higher education's public purposes, mission, and work in a democratic society? How do-and how should-academic professionals contribute to and participate in civic life in their practices as scholars, scientists, and educators?
Democracy and Higher Education addresses these questions by combining an examination of several normative traditions of civic engagement in American higher education with the presentation and interpretation of a dozen oral history profiles of contemporary practitioners. In his analysis of these profiles, Scott Peters reveals and interprets a democratic-minded civic professionalism that includes and interweaves expert, social critic, responsive service, and proactive leadership roles.
Democracy and Higher Education contributes to a new line of research on the critically important task of strengthening and defending higher education's positive roles in and for a democratic society.
Contents
Contents
Chapter Sixteen. Lessons
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Introduction and Overview
PART 1. THE PUBLIC PURPOSES AND WORK QUESTION IN AMERICAN HIGHER EDUCATION
Chapter One. Answering the Public Purposes and Work Question
Chapter Two. Questioning the Answers
Chapter Three. Developing and Using Practitioner Profiles
PART 2. PRACTITIONER PROFILES
Chapter Four. Reaching Outside the Compartmentalized Structure: A Profile of Molly Jahn
Chapter Five. It Isn't Rocket Science: A Profile of Ken Reardon
Chapter Six. The Making Is the Learning: A Profile of Paula Horrigan
Chapter Seven. Every Interaction Is an Educational Opportunity: A Profile of Daniel J. Decker
Chapter Eight. To Be in There, in the Thick of It: A Profile of Marcia Eames-Sheavly
Chapter Nine. I Never Set Myself Up as Somebody Special: A Profile of Antonio DiTommaso
Chapter Ten. Is It Your Problem, or Is It a Social Problem? A Profile of Tom Lyson
Chapter Eleven. My Path Has Been Different from My Predecessors': A Profile of Marvin Pritts
Chapter Twelve. The Expert in the Middle: A Profile of Frank Rossi
Chapter Thirteen. Leapfrogging Back and Forth: A Profile of John Sipple
Chapter Fourteen. I Feel Like a Missionary: A Profile of Tom Maloney
Chapter Fifteen. A Sense of Communion: A Profile of Anu Rangarajan
PART 3. LEARNING FROM PROFILES AND PRACTICE STORIES
Lessons
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
