Citizenship And Higher Education: The Role Of Universities In Community And Society (key Issues In Higher Education)

Citizenship and Higher Education What are the obligations of the university to society and its communities? What are the virtues of university education? What are the university’s ethical responsibilities to its students? Citizenship and civic responsibility in higher education are highly contested yet crucial to any consideration of the responsibilities of university education to society at large. This book offers thoughtful insights into the role of higher education, outlining the intellectual and practical tensions and pressures which come to bear upon higher education institutions. Wide ranging in scope, it offers perspectives from British, European, Canadian and North American contexts. Citizenship and Higher Education will prove stimulating reading for anyone concerned with the ethics of education and the university’s place in society— including educationalists, researchers, sociologists and policy-makers. James Arthur is Professor of Education and Director of Research at Canterbury Christ Church University College, UK. He is Director of the national citizenship project in teacher education and is author of numerous books on citizenship and ethics. Karen E.Bohlin is Senior Scholar at Boston University’s Center for the Advancement of Ethics and Character, where she is also Adjunct Professor of Education. Key Issues in Higher Education series Series editors: Gill Nicholls and Ron Barnett Books published in this series include: Citizenship and Higher Education Edited by James Arthur with Karen E.Bohlin Def ending Higher Education The crisis of confidence in the academy Dennis Hayes Universities and the Good Society Jon Nixon The Challenge to Scholarship Rethinking learning, teaching and research Gill Nicholls Citizenship and Higher Education The Role of Universities in Communities and Society Edited by James Arthur with Karen E.Bohlin LONDON AND NEW YORK First published 2005 by RoutledgeFalmer 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by RoutledgeFalmer 270 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016 This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2005. “To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk.” RoutledgeFalmer is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group © 2005 James Arthur, Karen E.Bohlin and individual contributors All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data A catalog record for this