Arms and the University: Military Presence and the Civic Education of Non-Military Students

Autor/inn/en	Downs, Donald Alexander; Murtazashvili, Ilia
Titel	Arms and the University: Military Presence and the Civic Education of Non-Military Students
Quelle	(2012), (458 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
ISBN	978-0-5211-9232-3
Schlagwörter	National Security; War; College Curriculum; Armed Forces; Citizenship Education; Military Training; Public Opinion; Case Studies; Student Surveys; Interviews; Educational History; Educational Theories; Dissent; Political Attitudes; Politics of Education; Government School Relationship; General Education; Academic Education; Higher Education; Massachusetts; New York; Wisconsin + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? National territory; Security; Staatsgebiet; Sicherheit; Krieg; Military; Militär; Citizenship; Education; Politische Bildung; Politische Erziehung; Staatsbürgerliche Erziehung; Militärausbildung; Öffentliche Meinung; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Schülerbefragung; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Educational theory; Theory of education; Bildungstheorie; Dissens; Political attitude; Politische Einstellung; Educational policy; Bildungspolitik; Allgemein bildendes Schulwesen; Allgemeinbildung; Akademische Bildung; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Master-Studiengang
Abstract	Alienation between the U.S. military and society has grown in recent decades. Such alienation is unhealthy, as it threatens both sufficient civilian control of the military and the long-standing ideal of the "citizen soldier." Nowhere is this issue more predominant than at many major universities, which began turning their backs on the military during the chaotic years of the Vietnam War. Arms and the University probes various dimensions of this alienation, as well recent efforts to restore a closer relationship between the military and the university. Through theoretical and empirical analysis, Donald Alexander Downs and Ilia Murtazashvili show how a military presence on campus in the form of ROTC (including a case study of ROTC's return to Columbia and Harvard universities), military history, and national security studies can enhance the civic and liberal education of non-military students, and in the process help to bridge the civil-military gap. This volume: (1) develops a theory of liberal and civic education and applies it with surveys of military and non-military students as well as dozens of interviews with key players at major universities such as Harvard, UW-Madison and Columbia; (2) provides a unique history of the Reserve Officer Training Corps in the Ivy League and elsewhere, including the rebellions against the program in the late 1960s and the major efforts in recent years to restore ROTC to campuses that effectively banned it back then; and (3) provides a unique discussion of the plights and status of military history and security studies as fields of inquiry, as well as a theory of civic and liberal education that is linked to these scholarly endeavors. (Contains 14 tables.) (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10