The civic classroom in higher education: Contested terrain

Abstract

the civic classroom in higher education: Contested terrain abstraCtIn order to better understand the college classroom as a site of potential citizenship education, this article connects the delimited literature of the contested purposes of citizenship in higher education with scholarship on education for citizenship and provides empirical evidence from an analysis of how macro contextual influences are worked out in the micro practices of pedagogy and curricular design. By analysing two interdisciplinary college classrooms both with civic aims, this research offers a potential typology for understanding citizenship education at institutions of higher education.