Beyond Politics As Usual

Paths for Engaging College Students in Politics

Beyond Politics as Usual: Paths for Engaging College Students in Politics sheds light on the political learning, thinking, and acting of college students today. The book, edited by Kettering program officers Ileana Marin and Ray Minor, endeavors to reveal the current practices and approaches that faculty and staff at institutions of higher learning and other nonprofits employ to instill democratic concepts, values, and skills in students. Chapters in this volume include:

Introduction, Ileana Marin and Ray C. Minor

Political Learning Opportunities in College: What Is the Research Evidence?, Constance Flanagan

Deliberation as Communicative Politics: Building Civic Engagement in College Students, Elizabeth Hudson

(Striving for) Democracy in Small Groups: Engaging Politics in a Communication Studies Course, Timothy J. Shaffer

Practicing Deliberative Democracy at Gulf Coast State College, Elizabeth Trentanelli

Political Participation Exercises as a Means of Teaching Civic and Networking Skills, Lindsey Lupo and Rebecca Brandy Griffin

The Potential of Living-Learning Communities as Civic Engagement Incubators, Mark Small

Civic Outcomes of Student Engagement in Sustained Dialogue, Rhonda Fitzgerald, Jo Constanz, and Darby Lacey

Campus Network: Galvanizing a New Generation to Participate in Making Public Policy, Joelle Gamble with Lydia Bowers, Taylor Jo Isenberg, and Madeleine McNally

Reengaging Students in Our Democracy: Lessons from the CSU Center for Public Deliberation and Its Student Associate Program, Martn Carcasson

Lessons Learned from College Student Moderators, Lisa-Marie Napoli

Learning to Deliberate: Implications for Political Participation after College, Katy Harriger, Jill McMillan, Christy Buchanan, and Stephanie Gusler

Afterthoughts: Democracy and Higher Education, David Mathews