Teaching Civic Engagement

Description: Teaching Civic Engagement offers a new conceptual model, an examination of theoretical questions and concerns, and a variety of concrete teaching strategies to assist faculty in engaging questions of civic belonging and social activism in religion classrooms. The book explores the civic relevance of the academic study of religion.

Review Quotes: "Why civic engagement, and why in a religion classroom? This work wrestles with these questions and comes out a winner. It develops an original and helpful model to understand the continuum of teaching civic engagement that moves from critical thinking to motivated action. It fearlessly raises issues about the whole enterprise of teaching civic engagement while also providing practical pedagogical examples of how best to do it. What a valuable teaching and learning resource!" --Joseph A. Favazza, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs and Professor of Religious Studies, Stonehill College

"A wonderful addition to the pedagogical literature in higher education, this collection outlines with conceptual clarity the guiding objectives for faculty who wish to educate for civic engagement. Reflective essays from faculty members who teach across a broad range of institutional contexts give complexity and insight into how these objectives play out when teaching religious and theological studies. A must for any faculty member who is seeking to understand how and why to use experiential learning, service learning, action research, and other such community engagement formats of teaching." --Nadine S. Pence, Executive Director, Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion

"If one can truly begin to teach with and through the core principles of civic engagement-ethics and impact, reflection and justice-it is in the religious studies classroom. Clingerman and Locklin offer us a valuable contribution of essays that do so with insight, compassion, and power." --Dan Butin, author of Service-Learning in Theory and Practice