Upcoming Faculty Development Events (Late September, 2020 through early October, 2020)
eBooks
Books
Educating Citizens by Call Number: LC268 .E355 2003ISBN: 9780787965150Publication Date: 2003-02-17Chapter 5: Pedagogical Strategies for Educating Citizen
Chapter 6: Weaving Moral and Civic Learning into the Curriculum
Civic Engagement in Higher Education by Call Number: LC220.5 .C58 2009ISBN: 9780470388464Publication Date: 2009-01-27
Democracy's Education by Call Number: LC173 .D46 2015ISBN: 9780826520357Publication Date: 2015-02-01
Liberating Service Learning and the Rest of Higher Education Civic Engagement by Call Number: LC220.5 .S76 2016ISBN: 9781439913512Publication Date: 2016-05-23
Engaging Civic Engagement by Call Number: LC1091 .W65 2017ISBN: 9781498557948Publication Date: 2017-08-15
Creating Space for Democracy by Call Number: LC89 .C68 2019ISBN: 9781620369265Publication Date: 2019-10-21
Scholarly Articles
- I Will Register and Vote, If You Teach Me How: A Field Experiment Testing Voter Registration in College ClassroomsAuthors conducted a controlled experiment across 16 college campuses to test the efficacy of classroom presentations to increase voter registration...[and] found that ...presentations increased overall registration by 6 percentage points and turnout rates by approximately 2.6 percentage points.
- Creating a Culture of Possibility: A Case for Engaged PedagogyHow to teach young people about the grave ecological and social crises of our times without crushing their sense of possibility? The author has come to believe that the nature of these crises, together with a widespread weakening of civic and democratic culture, makes it irresponsible to teach young people about “the world as it is” without simultaneously giving them opportunities to develop capacities for collective agency.
Teaching Resources
- Election Imperatives 2020Recommendations for faculty beginning on page 8.
- Campus Election Engagement Project: Voter EducationThe faculty resource page has some materials to build voting and elections into courses.
- Scholars Strategy Network: Faculty Guide to Student Voting in Your ClassroomUse this faculty guide to bring voter registration, education and voter turnout information directly into the classroom.
- Teaching Civic Engagement Across the DisciplinesComprehensive document from the American Political Science Association.
- A Crucible Moment: College Learning & Democracy's FuturePivotal publication from Association of American Colleges and Universities as a call to action for civic learning and democratic engagement.
- Graduating Students into VotersResearch on the psychological barriers faced by student voters.
- Faculty Network for Student Voting Rights: ResourcesSee "Academic and Pedagogical Resources" at the bottom of the page
- Project PericlesPromotes civic engagement within higher education.
- Teaching About Elections (Anti-Defamation League)Aimed at K-12
- Teaching for Democracy AllianceAimed at K-12
- Teaching Democracy: Distance LearningAimed at K-12
Class Activities and Assignments
- Talking About Elections In Your ClassroomsIf you want students to vote, your best bet may be to facilitate classroom conversations that encourage their electoral participation. Here are some reasons why election-related conversations in your classroom matter—and suggestions on conducting them.
- Citizen Literacy"Online toolkit that promotes the development of key information skills for democratic citizenship and features short videos, handouts, and activities that faculty across all disciplines can integrate into their courses and assignments."
- National Issues Forum: VotingDownload a free guide with resources for facilitating discussion about safeguarding and improving elections.
- Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers by Mike CaulfieldOpen Source textbook (2017). Includes activities for lateral reading and evaluating sources.
- Center for Civic ReflectionOnline library of resources to support civic reflection, including articles, videos, discussion plans, and more!
Faculty Development
- Civic Prompts: Making Civic Learning Routine across the DisciplinesDesigned to help build faculty capacity to incorporate civic learning in major courses and programs, this publication provides a process, or set of prompts, faculty can use to define and explore the public purposes and civic inquiries embedded in their disciplines. Ideal for faculty development initiatives, teaching and learning centers, and anyone interested in providing faculty with the tools to embrace and implement effective civic learning.