Higher Education and Democracy: Essays on Service-Learning and Civic Engagement - Exploring Academic Research for Social Change & Community Involvement" (Note: The original title was already in English and academic in nature. I maintained its scholarly tone while adding keywords like "academic research," "social change," and "community involvement" for SEO. The added phrase suggests usage in higher education studies, civic engagement programs, and social justice research.)

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"Higher Education and Democracy"ais a collection of essays written over the last ten years on how civic engagement in higher education works to achieve what authors John Saltmarsh and Edward Zlotkowsi consider to be the academic and civic purposes of higher education. These include creating new modes of teaching and learning, fostering participation in American democracy, the development and respect for community and civic institutions, and encouraging the constant renewal all of these dimensions of American life.Organized chronologically, the twenty-two essays in this volume provide signposts along the road in the journey of fulfilling the civic purposes of higher education. For the authors, service-learning is positioned as centrally important to the primary academic systems and structures of higher education, departments, disciplines, curriculum, and programs that are central to the faculty domain. Progressing from the general and the contextual to specific practices embodied in ever larger academic units, the authors conclude with observations on the future of the civic engagement movement.