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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? The Role Of Citizenship And Civic Responsibility In Higher Education Is A Highly Contested Yet Crucial Element Of Any Consideration Of The Role Of University In Society. This Book Offers Thoughtful Insights Into This Role, 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 Educational Environments. 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. Book Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Notes On Contributors -- Series Editors' Preface -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Student Character In The British University -- Introduction -- Character In The British Higher Education Tradition -- Character And Higher Education In The Twenty-first Century -- Institutional Mission -- Subject/professional Studies -- Student Experience -- School To University -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3 Universities Of Character? -- Academic Freedom -- The Threatened Freedom Of Universities -- Character In Universities -- What Individual Academic Freedom Requires -- Chapter 4 Community, Service Learning And Higher Education In The Uk -- Introduction -- Higher Education Reform In The Uk -- Service Learning Or Community-based Learning -- Service Learning In The Usa -- Service Learning In The Uk -- Community, Communitarianism And Higher Education -- Chapter 5 Searching For A Moral North Star During The College Years -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6 Citizenship And Higher Education In The Uk -- Citizenship And Pre-higher Education -- Civil Renewal, New Labour And Civic Republicanism -- Citizenship And Higher Education -- Higher Education, Citizenship, Civic Responsibility And Service Learning -- Citizenship, Higher Education And The 'making Of Citizens' In Critical Perspective -- Chapter 7 Character Education At The University: A Worthy Purpose -- Character Education: Choice, Vision And Desire -- Socrates Or Protagoras? The Professor As Moral Educator -- Chapter 8 The Character Of Higher Education -- The Value Vacuum -- The Contemporary Crisis Of Education -- Newman's 'sophistry' -- Higher Education As Socialization -- The Ethics Of 'niceness' -- The Inversion Of The Transaction Between Generations -- Chapter 9 Developing Citizenship Through International Exchanges -- Introduction. The Evaluation Of The Project -- Issues Arising From Data Analysis -- Logistics -- 'personal' Issues -- The German Members Of Staff Commented: -- A German Student Commented: -- The Canadians Reflected The Same Perspective. One Canadian Student Observed: -- General Professional Development -- One Canadian Student Commented Succinctly And Drily: -- Students Were Able To Apply These Insights To Citizenship Education: -- Another Commented: -- Citizenship Education -- Conclusions -- Chapter 10 Textual Apologism Or Dissent? -- Post-welfarist School Reform -- Textual Apologism And Dissent -- Primarily Problem-solving Texts -- Overt Apologism -- Subtle Apologism -- Textual Dissent -- Why Few Dissenting Accounts Of School Management And Leadership? -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.