Educating...for what?: Engagement and Citizenry

Publication Date

11-3-2011

Keywords

Higgins School of Humanities, Difficult Dialogues, Engagement, video recording

Abstract

Higgins School of the Humanities/Difficult Dialogues: Video Recording from 11/3/2011 event featuring Tom Hayden and Bob Ross "Engagement and Citizenry"

Event Description: During their undergraduate years, students participate in a community that is a microcosm of society, and have the opportunity to learn about what it means to be a member of a society—a citizen—while they live it. How do we as educators (and humanists) best support and model this process? Where in our pedagogy can we enhance and develop the qualities of skillful empathy, effective analysis and motivated responsibility that good citizenship demands?

Our guest for a conversation on engagement and citizenry is long-time activist Tom Hayden, who was the primary author of the Port Huron Statement of Students for a Democratic Society, which became known for its advocacy of “participatory democracy”. He is joined in conversation by Professor Bob Ross of Clark University, who participated with Hayden in the founding of SDS.

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Tom Hayden and Bob Ross

"Engagement and Citizenry"

Clark University, Higgins School of Humanities

Difficult Dialogues

November 3, 2011

RT: 115 minutes, hosted in Dana Commons

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