Service, Public Work, and Respectful Public Citizens

Autor/in	Youniss, James
Titel	Service, Public Work, and Respectful Public Citizens
Quelle	In: Liberal Education, 97 (2011) 2, S.28-33 (6 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0024-1822
Schlagwörter	Higher Education; Citizenship; Justice; Citizenship Education; Liberal Arts; Social Scientists; Service Learning + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Staatsbürgerschaft; Gerechtigkeit; Citizenship; Education; Politische Bildung; Politische Erziehung; Staatsbürgerliche Erziehung; Social scientist; Sozialwissenschaftler; Service-Learning
Abstract	Encouragement of service as public work is one strategy higher education can use in fulfilling its civic mission to socialize society's future leaders. The diversity of American higher education includes large land grant state universities, small liberal arts colleges, religiously sponsored institutions, and local community colleges. This array helps explain the many legitimate forms of service that social scientists have observed within and across campuses. But not all types of service are equally likely to promote participatory citizenship and instill lasting civic identities. This article offers a rationale for public work that fits the contemporary economic and political times. The mediating institutions that sustain civic traditions are in place. Young people's sense of fairness and justice has not diminished. The question, then, is whether higher education will make the effort to bring the promise of public work to fruition. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10