Intergroup dialogue promotes student engagement across cultural and social divides on
college campuses through a face-to-face, interactive, and facilitated learning experience that …

A new form of scholarship, the scholarship of engagement, is emerging as a distinct set of
practices within the general movement toward civic renewal in American higher education …

Sustaining and Improving Learning Communities is the long awaited follow-up to the
groundbreaking book Creating Learning Communities. The authors continue their …

This article presents the findings of a study concerning the use of deliberation as a tool for
classroom instruction. Utilizing deliberative polling as the basis for this project, we wanted to …

What does leisure mean to people? Has the essence of leisure been changed? The
individuals may feel controlled by a system that values material possessions more than …

Susana Juniu's thought-provoking essay defines the new digital divide in higher education--
a division of knowledge, experience, and needs that influence the integration of technology …

Higher education has renewed its focus on civic engagement due to a growing recognition
of the distinctive opportunities for students to internalize civic values during college. This …

Deliberative democracy–whereby people debate competing ideas before agreeing upon
political action–must surely rest on its capacity to include all points of view. But how does …

Multicultural citizenship education courses worldwide show promise in their ability to
influence attitudes and beliefs supportive of social justice. However, many of these courses …

Dialogue skills open opportunities to communicate with people purposefully and help to set
out information clearly and completely. Dialogue is the main means for successful …