Includes bibliographical references and index

Higher education and civic engagement : conceptual issues -- Concepts of citizenship in the context of political education / Richard Taylor -- Love, reason and the future of civil society / Michael Edwards -- Recovering the civic university / Ronald Barnett -- The case for service learning / Edward Zlotkowski -- Institutional considerations -- Rethinking the place of community-based engagement at universities / Ahmed C. Bawa -- Institutionalizing service-learning in higher education / Andrew Furco -- The process of localising pedagogies for civic engagement in Ireland : the significance of conceptions, culture and context / Josephine A. Boland and Lorraine McIlrath -- Embedding process and practice -- Identifying and teaching civic engagement skills through service learning / Marshall Welch -- Towards enhanced citizenship : the potential of service learning in teacher education : a national and international perspective / Timothy R. Murphy -- Service learning's challenge to the educator / Mark Doorley -- Serving, learning and reflective practice at Roehampton University, London / Jennifer Iles -- Civic youth work and implications for service learning : lessons from Northern Ireland / Ross Velure Roholt and Paul Smyth -- Place matters : partnerships for civic learning -- Nan Kari and Nan Skelton -- Service learning as a shared developmental journey : tapping the potential of the pedagogy / Brandon Whitney, Julie McClure, Alissa Respet, and Patti Clayton