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Education for Democracy: A Conversation in Two Keys
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By David Cooper, Professor of Writing, Rhetoric, and American Culture at Michigan State University. He received the Campus Compact's Thomas Ehrlich faculty Award for Service-Learning in 1999.
In Higher Education Exchange, 2004
“By the time my students read The New Student Politics they weren't in much of a mood, it seemed to me, to parse and sort through its arguments. Earlier in the semester, they had already been active in public work. They had felt something of the promise of political engagement through the public interest research and public literary projects that brought them into direct contact with senators and representatives at the Michigan state capitol…”
The Higher Education Exchange serves as a forum for new ideas and dialogue between scholars and the larger public. Essays explore ways that students and faculty can initiate and sustain an ongoing conversation about the public life they share.
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