by Silvia Foti

Creating citizens engaged in maintaining democracy entails intentionally increasing the people’s knowledge of the democratic process, their skills, and their motivation. This falls under the purview of America’s colleges and universities, according to the authors of Educating for Democracy, yet for a variety of reasons, is a mission that is failing.

Written with a sense of urgency of how important it is for the academy to educate its students on democracy, the authors suggest that America is headed for troubling times and that if citizens are not more engaged in the democratic process, doom awaits. While civic education is on the rise on American campuses with 600 programs already established, “only 1 percent of service learning programs included a focus on specifically political concerns and solutions.”

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