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Arms and the University : Military Presence and the Civic Education of Non-Military Students.

Demonstrates how some military presence on campus can contribute to the diversity of ideas and the education of all students.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Downs, Donald Alexander
Otros Autores: Murtazashvili, Ilia
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Arms and the University; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Tables; Acknowledgments; PART I A NORMATIVE AND PEDAGOGICAL FRAMEWORK; 1 Introduction The Closing of the University Mind: The Military-University Gap and the Problem of Civic and Liberal Education; A PROBLEM FOR THE CONSTITUTIONAL ORDER AND EDUCATION, AND THE CITIZEN-SOLDIER RATIONALE; THE "GAP": A BROADER PROBLEM IN ACADEMIA?; ROTC Issues; The Broader "Gap" Question; The Status of Military History; The Military and Social Science; THE DIFFERENT QUESTION WE ASK: CIVIC-LIBERAL EDUCATION AND POLITICAL/MORAL REALISM.
  • CONTRIBUTIONS OF MILITARY EXPOSURE TO CIVIC AND LIBERAL EDUCATIONA NORMATIVE AND THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK; A BRIEF STATEMENT REGARDING METHODS; CHAPTER OUTLINE; 2 Education in the Regime How a Military Presence Can Enhance Civic and Liberal Education; CIVIC AND LIBERAL EDUCATION: BASIC ASPECTS; Civic Education as Knowledge; Civic Education as Engagement; EDUCATION IN THE REGIME: CIVIC AND LIBERAL EDUCATION DIALECTICALLY COMBINED; THE WAYS IN WHICH AN APPROPRIATE MILITARY PRESENCE ON CAMPUS CAN ENHANCE EDUCATION; Civic Education: Understanding the Military and National Defense.
  • Liberal Education: Human Nature, Society, and the Meaning of LifeMoral Difficulties in Liberal Democracy; Intellectual and Moral Diversity on Campus; CONCLUSION; PART II ROTC AND THE UNIVERSITY; 3 ROTC and the University An Introduction; THE CITIZEN-SOLDIER IDEAL; THEORETICAL MOORING; OBJECTIONS TO ROTC; ROTC AND THE UNIVERSITY: THE PATH AHEAD; 4 ROTC AND THE IVIES BEFORE THE STORM; THE RETREAT; Revolutionary and Civil Wars; World War I; World War II; THE WORLD WAR I AND WORLD WAR II UNIVERSITY CONSIDERED; THE COLD WAR UNIVERSITY; The Cold War University, Research, and Active Policy Making.
  • CLOUDS ON THE HORIZON5 ROTC and the Ivies The Divorce; RIDING THE STORM: ROTC, THE IVY LEAGUE, AND THE 1960S; ATTACKS ON ROTC; Dartmouth; Penn; Cornell; Princeton; Brown; Yale; Harvard; COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: "UP AGAINST THE IVY WALL," ROTC; CONCLUDING THOUGHTS; 6 ROTC, Columbia, and the Ivy League Sisyphus Renews His Quest to Renew a Troubled Relationship; THROUGH THE BACK DOOR; THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT AND THE MILITARY; DON'T ASK, DON'T TELL: RECRUITING, THE SOLOMON ACT, AND 9/11; 9/11 AND THE DRIVE TO REINSTATE ROTC AT COLUMBIA, 2001-2005: INTRODUCTION; THE RISE OF THE NEW ROTC MOVEMENT.
  • THE TASK FORCE ON ROTC: TOWN HALL MEETING AND ON TO THE SENATETHE TASK FORCE REPORT AND THE SENATE; THE FINAL SENATE VOTE; 7 Post-DADT Sisyphus Ascends the Mountain; INCREMENTAL REFORM: 2005-2010; BIDING TIME BEFORE DADT'S REPEAL; TOWARD RENEWAL; Columbia: ROTC's Reversal of Fortune; Findings from the Hearings; Pro-ROTC Return; Anti-ROTC Return; On to the Senate; The Senate Vote on April 1; Concluding Thoughts; 8 Pedagogy and Military Presence The Educational Influence of Student-Soldiers in Their Own Words; THE EXPERIENCE OF ROTC STUDENT-SOLDIERS; Question 1: Why they Joined.