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Higher Education Student Civic Engagement: Conceptualizations of Citizenship and Engagement Strategies

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Citizenship, Democracy and Higher Education in Europe, Canada and the USA

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Matters of democracy, governance and citizenship are on the agenda within nations, in Europe and globally. The proliferation of books and papers exploring democracy, particularly in the context of education, is illustrative of a concern for its stability and its future (Kelly, 2003, p. 103). Due in part to the individualization of societies and the public sphere (Bauman, 2000, 2001; Elliott and Lemert, 2006), and the perceived breakdown in community and social capital, there is a sense of ‘civic malaise’ (Putnam, 2000, p. 25). A concern that established democracies are ‘in crisis, or at least severely strained’ (Dahl, 2000, p. 2) has resulted in a number of countries, for example, Australia, America, Canada and England, commissioning reports on civic disengagement (Sears and Hughes, 2006; Sears and Hyslop-Margison, 2007).

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  1. Department of Educational Counselling, San José State University, USA

    Jason Laker (Professor and Chair) (Professor and Chair)

  2. University of Navarra, Spain

    Concepción Naval (Dean of the School of Education and Psycology) (Dean of the School of Education and Psycology)

  3. University of Rijeka, Croatia

    Kornelija Mrnjaus (Assistant Professor of Education) (Assistant Professor of Education)

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Wynne, R. (2014). Higher Education Student Civic Engagement: Conceptualizations of Citizenship and Engagement Strategies. In: Laker, J., Naval, C., Mrnjaus, K. (eds) Citizenship, Democracy and Higher Education in Europe, Canada and the USA. Palgrave Studies in Global Citizenship Education and Democracy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137287489_4

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