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Engagement and Citizenship: A New Core for the University

2014; Penn State University Press; Volume: 63; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1353/jge.2014.0003

1527-2060

Dan A. Lewis,

Service-Learning and Community Engagement

The author proposes that “societal renewal” and the engagement required to accomplish that renewal should be the core of the university. By focusing on the basic building blocks of good citizenship (civic knowledge and civic action) the university can weave, at relatively low cost, programs and classes into its core. Using Northwestern University as a case study, the author demonstrates how this can be done.