Quick Hits for Educating Citizens

Chapter 1. Tips for First TimersEasy to Use and Easy to Do; Let the Students Take the Bait before You Set the Hook; Strong at the Seams: Joining Academic and Civic Interests; Can't We All Just (Dis)Agree?; Doing It Right: Reflections on Experience; Matching Goals to Students' Interests; Setting Service-Learning GoalsChapter 2. Classroom ActivitiesMaking Democracy Matter in the Classroom; "Doing" Engagement; Understanding and Working with Perspectives; Citizens Talking across the Curriculum; Getting People's Attention; Pedagogy of Collegiality; Debating Issues through Opinion-Editorials and Letters to the Editor; Building Skills for Social Action; Using Readers' Theater; Public Achievement and Teacher Education; Expanding Civic Involvement and the Learning Landscape through Courtroom Observations; Connecting Scholarship and Social Responsibility; Motivating Mathematical Concepts with Politics; The Do-It-Yourself Interest Groups; An Exercise in Community Transformation; Using Political Activism to Teach Critical Thinking; A Compelling Reason to Study Cities; Student Philanthropy as a Vehicle for Teaching the Subject MatterChapter 3. Service Learning and Educating CitizensA Service-Learning Checklist; Building the Right Relationship: Collaboration as a Key to Successful Civic Engagement; Maximizing the Power of Reflection; Moving from Service to Justice; Developing the Attitudes and Practices of Civic Engagement with Service-Learning Course Development; Improving Literacy through Service Learning; Texts and Contexts: Performance, Community, and Service Learning; Using Community-Based Learning Modules to Introduce Languages and Culture; Developing Citizenship through a Service-Learning Capstone ExperienceChapter 4. Assessing Student LearningUsing the National Survey of Student Engagement to Assess and Enhance Civic Engagement in the Classroom; Assessing the Multiple Dimensions of Student Civic Engagement: A Preliminary Test of an ADP Survey Instrument; Assessing Student Learning in Service-Learning Internships Chapter 5. Departmental and Disciplinary Approaches to Educating CitizensDepartment-wide Engagement: Creating and Supporting Durable Structures for Campus and Community Change; Creating and Sustaining a Culture of Engagement; Maximizing Collaboration for Sustainable Innovation; Rethinking the Boundaries of the Classroom; Infusing Service Learning in Teacher Education Programs; Engaging Future Teachers about Civic Education; Fostering Service Learning in a Small Department; Service Learning in Asian American StudiesChapter 6. Educating Citizens through ResearchImmersing the Student Researcher in Community; Using the Research Process to Enhance Civic Engagement; Cultivating Commitment: A Role for Ethnography in Teacher Education; Involving Students in Campus-wide Assessment of Civic Engagement; Increasing Political Efficacy through Community-Based Research; Teaching Race and Politics through Community-Based ResearchChapter 7. Overcoming Barriers to Educating Students for CitizenshipFrom Oblivion to Engagement: Dissolving Barriers to Thoughtful Response; Creating Classrooms as "Safe Space"; Faculty Development for Facilitating Civil Discourse; "Writing" the Civic into the Curriculum; Reaching Out to Tomorrow's Scientists, Technologists, Engineers, and Mathematicians; Using Organizational Writing to Engage Engineering and Business Students; Cal Campaign Consultants: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Civic Education, Leadership, and Community Involvement