Then and Now: The Disciplines and Civic Engagement.

Bender, Thomas

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Publication Date: 2001

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Then and Now: The Disciplines and Civic Engagement.

Bender, Thomas

Liberal Education, v87 n1 p6-17 Win 2001

Suggests that the expansion of knowledge and its relevance to experience and society once belonged to civic professionals. Specialization in the academy replaced them with the power and the limitations of inward-looking disciplines. It is concluded that, drawing on both these traditions, educational innovation is called for now. (EV)

Descriptors: Academic Education, Citizen Participation, Educational Improvement, Intellectual Disciplines, Relevance (Education), School Community Relationship

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers

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Language: English

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Note: Presented at the Liberal Arts Forum of the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Colleges and Universities (January 19, 2000).