Democratizing Academic Professionalism Inside and Out

Autor/in	Dzur, Albert W.
Titel	Democratizing Academic Professionalism Inside and Out
Quelle	In: New Directions for Higher Education, (2010) 152, S.75-82 (8 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0271-0560
DOI	10.1002/he.415
Schlagwörter	Hidden Curriculum; Democracy; Citizen Participation; Academic Achievement; Governance; College Faculty; Higher Education; College Students; Teacher Student Relationship + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Heimlicher Lehrplan; Demokratie; 'Citizen participation; Citizens'' participation'; Bürgerbeteiligung; Schulleistung; Education; Educational policy; Financing; Steuerung; Bildung; Erziehung; Bildungspolitik; Finanzierung; Fakultät; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Collegestudent; Teacher student relationships; Lehrer-Schüler-Beziehung
Abstract	American higher education is afflicted by a condition of successful failure. In terms of academic knowledge production, America's colleges and universities are success stories, yet there is a disturbing neglect of the civic life eroding all around Americans. At a time of widespread public distrust of politics, institutions, and officials, a time of wicked policy problems such as overincarceration, costly health care, ineffective kindergarten through twelfth-grade education, and environmental endangerment, colleges and universities offer complacent gestures such as service-learning and civic engagement courses. They have failed more fundamentally to align organizational resources to what must be the next great academic mission: restoring American democracy. In this chapter, the author prescribes a general course of treatment for the underlying disorder: the currently inadequate connection between the culture of academic professionalism and the culture of lay citizen participation. The author's diagnosis and treatment plan involve a complicated combination of greater self-consciousness and a more explicitly democratic commitment on and off campus. First, one needs to be sober about the hidden curriculum--the technocratic administrative cultures, ineffectual institutional governance habits, and social distance between faculty and students that prevent the university from modeling a democratic way of life. Second, one should advocate university-facilitated democratic work off campus that is non-condescending, politically efficacious, yet also congruent with the university's socially unique function as a place where traditions of inquiry and creative achievement are studied, revered, and challenged. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10