Teaching

Chapter 19: Unscripted Learning: Cultivating Engaged Catalysts by James Simeone, Illinois Wesleyan University, James Sikora, Illinois Wesleyan University and Deborah Halperin, Illinois Wesleyan University  The Action Research Center at Illinois Wesleyan University provides a model of community-based action research […]

Chapter 18: Collaborative Civic Engagement: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Teaching Democracy with Elementary and University Students by Ann N. Crigler, University of Southern California, Gerald Thomas Goodnight, University of Southern California, Stephen Armstrong, University of Southern California, and Aditi […]

Chapter 23: Politics 365: Fostering Campus Climates for Student Political Learning and Engagement by Nancy Thomas, Tufts University and Margaret Brower, Tufts University College level teaching for political knowledge and engagement happens in the context of a campus […]

Concluding Chapter Summaries: Teaching Engagement Today by Dick Simpson, University of Illinois at Chicago Teaching Civic Engagement Today reports on the broad movements supporting teaching civic engagement across disciplines, across campuses, and nationally. To create a climate […]

Chapter 21: Civic Engagement Centers and Institutes: Promising Routes for Teaching Lessons in Citizenship to Students of All Disciplines by Elizabeth C. Matto, George Washington University and Mary McHugh, Merrimack College More and more, colleges and universities are […]

Chapter 17: Politically Themed Residential Learning Communities as Incubators of Interest in Government and Politics by John McTague, Towson University This chapter reports findings from the inaugural semester of Towson University’s Political Engagement Community, in which […]

Chapter 20: New Resources for Civic Engagement: The National Survey of Student Leaders, Campus Associational Life, and the Consortium for Inter-Campus SoTL Research by J. Cherie Strachan, Central Michigan University and Elizabeth A. Bennion, University South Bend […]