Citizenship Across the Curriculum

Citation

(2010), "Citizenship Across the Curriculum", International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, Vol. 11 No. 4. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijshe.2010.24911dae.005

Citizenship Across the Curriculum

Article Type: Books and Resources From: International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, Volume 11, Issue 4

Edited by Michael B. Smith, Rebecca S. Nowacek and Jeffrey L. Bernstein,Indiana University Press,Bloomington, IN,2010,240 pp.,ISBN 978025322179-7,US$24,95,

As Americans flock to college in record numbers, higher education has an unprecedented opportunity to help a new majority of Americans achieve the knowledge and determination to redeem the full promise of democracy – for liberty, justice, equal dignity and the quality of our shared futures. The book Citizenship Across the Curriculum provides some guidance for faculty members on what it means to take these responsibilities seriously.

The book advocates the teaching of civic engagement at the college level, in a wide range of disciplines and courses. Using “writing across the curriculum” programmes as a model, the contributors propose a similar approach to civic education. In case studies drawn from political science and history as well as mathematics, the natural sciences, rhetoric and communication studies, the contributors provide models for incorporating civic learning and evaluating pedagogical effectiveness. By encouraging faculty to gather evidence and reflect on their teaching practice and their students’ learning, this volume contributes to the growing field of the scholarship of teaching and learning.