Remaking Civic Formation: towards a learning citizen?

London Review of Education ◽

10.1080/1474846042000302816 ◽

2004 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Terri Seddon

Keyword(s):

Civic Engagement ◽

Lifelong Learning ◽

Citizenship Education ◽

Educational Innovation ◽

Community Based ◽

Liberal Reform ◽

Community Based Learning ◽

Key Features ◽

Contemporary Context ◽

The Way

This paper uses three examples of educational innovation emerging in the contemporary context of market-liberal reform as a focus for exploring the patterns and possibilities of civic formation. The first part of the paper contextualises contemporary civic formation within the long historic struggle between capitalism and democracy, highlighting the way citizen learning is being reconfigured as markets and state are mediated by community interests. The last section attempts to draw out the key features of this community-based citizen learning and its implications for citizen learning and action. This discussion provides a basis for clarifying the kind of civic and citizenship education that is needed to take community-based learning beyond localism towards formal civic engagement that can sustain and protect democracy. The idea of a learning citizen is suggested as a way of conceptualising and acknowledging the contradictions within this citizenship agenda that holds the imperatives of lifelong learning in tension with the imperatives of educating citizen.

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Real World Learning Through Civic Engagement: Principles, Pedagogies and Practices

Applied Pedagogies for Higher Education ◽

10.1007/978-3-030-46951-1_4 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 63-89

Author(s):

Kristine Mason O’Connor ◽

Lindsey McEwen

Keyword(s):

Civic Engagement ◽

Transformative Learning ◽

Real World ◽

Citizenship Education ◽

Community Based ◽

Building Resilience ◽

Real World Learning ◽

Community Based Learning ◽

Forms Of Knowledge

Abstract Civic engagement offers students transformational opportunities to experience ‘real world learning’. This chapter identifies key principles of critical community-based learning that emerge from appraisal of different histories and paradigms of learning through civic engagement. It presents changing drivers to community-based learning from local to global, including newer imperatives of learning for sustainability, citizenship education and building resilience. It explores pedagogies that form a nexus around community-based learning—building on understandings of different forms of knowledge, through transformative learning to learning for citizenship. It concludes by reflecting on the means by which radical real world learning through civic engagement can advance and thrive.

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The Past, Present, and Religious Studies Future of Civic Engagement in American Higher Education

The Wabash Center Journal on Teaching ◽

10.31046/wabashcenter.v1i3.574 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 1 (3) ◽

Author(s):

Sara Ronis ◽

Travis Proctor

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Civic Engagement ◽

Religious Studies ◽

Late Antique ◽

Community Based ◽

American Higher Education ◽

Ancient Religion ◽

Community Based Learning ◽

The University

We argue that Civic Engagement is fundamental to the stated work of the university, the humanities, and the project of religious studies. We trace the historical connections between Civic Engagement and higher education in the American context to the present, highlighting a consistency of focus on Civic Engagement across diverse university contexts even as educational priorities and instantiations shift. We then explore the particular role of Civic Engagement in Religious Studies pedagogy. We contend that being explicit about integrating Civic Engagement in the religion classroom enhances our students’ ability to understand complex concepts in late antique religion and underscores for them how relevant the study of late ancient religion is to students’ lives today. We offer three ways that instructors in Religious Studies can incorporate Civic Engagement into their classes: cultivating naming practices, focusing pedagogical exercises on honing students’ Civic Engagement skills, and, where practicable, engaging in community-based learning.

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English at Your Service

Changing Urban Landscapes Through Public Higher Education - Advances in Higher Education and Professional Development ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-3454-9.ch001 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 1-25

Author(s):

Helene Krauthamer ◽

Matthew Petti

Keyword(s):

Service Learning ◽

Civic Engagement ◽

General Education ◽

Learning Community ◽

Educational Practice ◽

Black College ◽

Community Based ◽

Historically Black College ◽

Community Based Learning ◽

The Impact

This chapter discusses civic engagement and service-learning in higher education at an urban, land-grant, Historically Black College/University, with a particular focus on the challenges and benefits of service-learning for commuter students. After a discussion of service learning and how it exemplifies the Kolb learning model and effective educational practice, the chapter presents illustrations of civic engagement and extracurricular community-based learning in an English BA program through its two student organizations – The Literary Club and Sigma Tau Delta-Alpha Epsilon Rho. The chapter also provides an example of how service-learning has been implemented in a General Education program and specifically in a writing course. The chapter highlights the partnerships with community organizations that have developed, presents reflective testimonials about the impact of these experiences, provides recommendations for strengthening community-based learning, and concludes that service-learning/community-based learning results in a sense of community for all participants.

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