Educating Citizens: Preparing America's Undergraduates for Lives of Moral and Civic Responsibility (JB-Carnegie Foundation for the Adavancement of Teaching)

355 Pages·2003·1.07 MB·English

by  Anne Colby, Thomas Ehrlich, Elizabeth Beaumont, Jason Stephens

educating citizens
Preparing America’s Undergraduates
for Lives of Moral and Civic Responsibility
Anne Colby, Thomas Ehrlich,
Elizabeth Beaumont, Jason Stephens
❍
Foreword by
Lee S. Shulman
First in a series published
in partnership with
The Carnegie Foundation for
the Advancement of Teaching
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
Founded by Andrew Carnegie in 1905 and chartered in 1906 by an
Act of Congress, The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of
Teaching is an independent policy and research center whose charge is
“to do and perform all things necessary to encourage, uphold, and dig-
nify the profession of the teacher and the cause of higher education.”
The Foundation is a major national and international center for research
and policy studies about teaching. Its mission is to address the hardest
problems faced in teaching in public schools, colleges, and universities—
that is, how to succeed in the classroom, how best to achieve lasting stu-
dent learning, and how to assess the impact of teaching on students.
educating citizens
Preparing America’s Undergraduates
for Lives of Moral and Civic Responsibility
Anne Colby, Thomas Ehrlich,
Elizabeth Beaumont, Jason Stephens
❍
Foreword by
Lee S. Shulman
First in a series published
in partnership with
The Carnegie Foundation for
the Advancement of Teaching
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contents
Foreword vii
Preface xi
The Authors xix
1. Educating Citizens in a Pluralistic Society 1
2. The Broader Undergraduate Context 23
3. When Educating Citizens is a Priority 49
4. The Multiple Dimensions of Moral and Civic Development 96
5. Pedagogical Strategies for Educating Citizens 131
6. Weaving Moral and Civic Learning into the Curriculum 167
7. Faculty: The Cornerstone 200
8. Moral and Civic Learning Beyond the Classroom 218
9. Assessment in Moral and Civic Education 258
10. Bringing Moral and Civic Learning to Center Stage 276
References 289
Name Index 309
Subject Index 315
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foreword
educating citizens is a new book inspired by an old and honorable
tradition of American educational and political thought. It exemplifies
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching’s commitment
to a vision of education that integrates intellectual with moral virtues and
connects the values of civic responsibility to the classic academic mission
of higher education.
In his masterful biography of John Adams, the historian David McCul-
lough gives special attention to one of Adams’ most impressive accom-
plishments, his single-handed authorship of the Constitution of the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. McCullough (2001) characterizes this
work as “one of the great, enduring documents of the American Revolu-
tion” and “the oldest functioning written constitution in the world”
(p. 225). Perhaps the most remarkable passage in this work is Section Two
of Chapter Six, which puts forward a conception of the state’s obligations
to educate its citizens.
Wisdom and knowledge, as well as virtue, diffused generally among
the body of people being necessary for the preservation of their rights
and liberties; and as these depend on spreading the opportunities and
advantages of education in various parts of the country, and among
the different orders of the people, it shall be the duty of legislators and
magistrates in all future periods of this commonwealth to cherish the
interests of literature and the sciences, and all seminaries of them,
especially the university at Cambridge, public schools, and grammar
schools in the towns; to encourage private societies and public insti-
tutions, rewards and immunities, for the promotion of agriculture,
arts, sciences, commerce, trades, manufactures, and a natural history
of the country; to countenance and inculcate the principles of human-
ity and general benevolence, public and private charity, industry and
frugality, honesty and punctuality in their dealings, sincerity, good
humor, and all social affections, and generous sentiments among the
people [McCullough, p. 223].
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