The potential for civic learning in higher education: teaching democracy by being democratic

• Autores: Jill McMillan
• Localización: Southern communication journal, ISSN 1041-794X, Vol. 69, nº 3 (PRIMAVERA), 2003, págs. 188-205
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Colleges and universities have been accused of abdicating their civic responsibilities, especially when it comes to abating the political alienation among college students, and not offering, instead, a positive institutional model of good democratic practice. Students complain that the democratic principles they are learning about in class are not implemented in the university governance that they see and hear. In this essay, I consider the chanllenges of citizenchip for higher education and for students, the similarities and differences between workplace and academic democracy practice. Then I present three case studies of political action at one university and the inconsistent yet hopeful messages about democracy that this institution's words and actions potentially conveyed to students and other onlookers