Higher Education and Civic Engagement: International Perspectives

'This book is a major contribution to the international study of higher education, civic engagement and also service learning. It offers some insightful and powerful analyses of conceptual issues, the institutionalising of civic engagement and the pedagogy and professional practice of service learning in higher education.' John Annette, University of London, UK 'This edited collection provides a welcome addition to the growing literature concerned with service learning and the civic mission of higher education. The Strength of the volume is that it includes a lot more than institutional case studies of community-based or service-learning initiatives. In addition, there are chapters that connect these initiatives with the broader conceptual basis for the civic role of the university. Moreover, while much of the literature on service learning emanates from an exclusively North American context where this movement has its origins, this book includes contributions from South Africa, England, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. This adds richness in illustrating and exploring the relevance of service learning to other national contexts.' Higher Education Review